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The Councilor for Citizen Participation of the City of Cieza, Nerea Martínez, believes that the Evaluation and Monitoring Commission will have to consider the possibility of incorporating other mechanisms, such as telematics, for future processes to facilitate voting and avoid this type of unforeseen .
Cieza hosted a historic day on Sunday with the vote in one of the proposals of the first participatory budgets of the municipality, to which the City has allocated 150,000 euros for investments and activities.
The ballot box, located in Plaza de Abastos between 10:00 am and 7:00 pm, allowed the registered neighbors to vote up to a maximum of 10 investment proposals - out of a total of 37 finally estimated viable by municipal technicians - and another 10 in terms of workshops and activities - out of a total of 30.
Martínez values ​​positively the participation in the process, noting that, although it is true that out of a total of 645 people registered and who participated at some point in the process, only 205 voted yesterday - 32% -, we must thank that these In the worst weather conditions.
The head of Participation, after thanking the effort to the Ciezans who went to vote in spite of the downpour that fell throughout the day, has anticipated that the evaluation and monitoring committee will have to evaluate the possibility of incorporating other mechanisms, such as The telematics, for future processes in order to facilitate the voting and to avoid this type of unforeseen events.
The council reminds that, according to the self-regulation, available on the website of the City Council, yesterday's vote represents 70% of the final results, while the final 30% will correspond to the results that are obtained next Tuesday at 7 pm Afternoon by the Budget Committee.
"The final results, therefore, will be available from Wednesday," Martinez says.
The councilor highlighted "the novelty of the process in the locality, since for the first time in the history of the municipality the citizens have been able to decide on the spending of 150,000 euros of the municipal budget of 2017 and have been the protagonists since the beginning of the process, Designing the same, elaborating and approving the self-regulation and finally voting in one of its priorities.A process that shows that, when the word is given to the citizens, it responds and that it stimulates this councilor so that by 2018 can be perfected The same, increase citizen participation and increase the economic amount of a mechanism that was born to stay, "concluded Nerea Martinez.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cieza
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