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Date Published: 13/12/2019
ARCHIVED - Mazarrón Budget for 2020 includes half a million euros for Camposol
Budgetary expenditure has increased to 32 million euros
Mazarrón council has given outline approval for the 2020 municipal budget, which has increased by 5.3% to 32.231.271,28 euros.
For the first time ever, the Camposol Urbanisation has been directly allocated a budget of 500,000 euros to be spent on infrastructural improvements, following the creation of a new concejalía for the urbanisation, headed up by Silvana Buxton, formerly acting president of the Camposol Residents Association who became the first international councillor to be elected to Mazarrón Town Hall earlier this year.
The urbanisation has previously been excluded from the allocation of municipal budgets due to the ongoing uncertainty over who is liable to pay for what, following the bankruptcy of the former constructor and promotor of the urbanisation, leaving the majority of the properties in an administrative no-mans’ land, with several long-running issues unresolved.
Although the majority of the homes are structurally sound and the deficiencies largely cosmetic, the council has been unable to formally take on responsibility for maintaining the infrastructure, due to it never being completed by the builder, and the cost of completing the infrastructure being several million euros, leaving the residents to plug potholes and maintain green areas at their own cost on a voluntary basis.
Millions of euros are required to complete the infrastructure to a satisfactory level and the ongoing problem of the re-routing of an infilled rambla is still unresolved, although since the councillor took office earlier this year there has been a noticeable improvement in many areas, with a plethora of minor problems being resolved such as provision of paper recycling containers, repairs to the social centre, installation of a safety rail to the social centre, repairs to the health centre, repairs to pavements and lighting, a major push to improve relations with the local police force and bring them onto Camposol to reduce crime and many initiatives to improve the relationship between the town hall and its foreign residents initiated.
However, many issues remain unresolved, the thorniest amongst them being the question of responsibility for the maintenance of “private roads” on the urbanisation, which has recently stirred up a great deal of indignation in some quarters.
Having used the privileged position of access to documentation and town hall lawyers to investigate the lack of action by former councils, the new councillor discovered that much of the reticence to pay for repairs to “private roads” was due to the fact that escrituras laid the responsibility for maintaining these roads at the door of the residents themselves, something which although common practice throughout Spain had not been made clear to the purchasers at the time and the required “Community of Owners” infrastructure had never been implemented, hence the refusal of the previous councils to undertake some of the necessary maintenance on the internal roads of the urbanisation (the maintenance of the public roads and areas is another issue altogether).
The former Mayoress, Alicia Jiménez, had steadfastly refused to repair internal roads or lighting infrastructures and take on responsibility, maintaining throughout her legislature that it was not the responsibility of the council to do so as the internal roads of the poligonos were “private”.
The revelations have caused a great deal of debate, as is only natural, and one unsuccessful political candidate who failed to gain a seat on the council in the municipal elections this year has written to the new Mayor, who had nothing to do with the creation of the current situation, saying “we wish you to understand that the residents of Camposol are not prepared to take on the burden of your failure to properly police a rouge(presumably meant to read rogue) developer Masa who has left Camposol in a condition which shames Spain”, stating that” as the representative of a large number of Camposol residents” he has organised a meeting “ to which “the response is staggering”, and “there will obviously be significant hostility from people who believe they are being deprived of their rights” and that “the date and venue for the meeting will be communicated to you in due course”.
Elsewhere, the debate has focused on misunderstandings about the difference between an “entity” and a “community of owners”, and the lack of understanding that the town hall cannot force the residents to create their own CoO’s, but equally cannot be forced to undertake maintenance which is the responsibility of the property owners themselves, the debate is set to continue well into the 2020 as attempts continue to find mechanisms by which the long-running problems of completing the infrastructure can be resolved and the legal uncertainties about the whole issue of legal responsibility for the maintenance of the urbanisation clarified.
So although the half a million euros allocated to Camposol will only scratch the surface of the needs of the urbanisation short-term, it is a positive step in the right direction and is the first time that the needs of the urbanisation have been acknowledged by a council in Mazarrón, due in no small part to the urbanisation having a legal representative of its own, determined to make sure the residents are given fair treatment and included within the municipal planning alongside other outlying districts of the municipality.
The council has also budgeted to spend more money improving the processing and collection of rubbish in the municipality, committing to an increase of 820.000 euros for these improvements, more money will be spent improving services for young people and education, money will also be allocated specifically to the outlying districts of the municipality which have complained in the past that they are ignored by their council and for the first time also have their own newly created concejalía, money has been allocated for the first time to animal welfare, 1 million euros will be spent improving cemeteries, street lighting will be improved and money spent on improving urban areas of the municipality.
In addition, extra staff will be taken on in the town hall, and the long-running argument over local police resources partially resolved by the creation of 8 new positions in the Policia local.,
The councillor for Camposol and foreign residents can be contacted on email via silvanaeb@mazarron.es and will continue to be available at the Community Centre on the urbanisation for consultations.
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