Atlantic Tide has opened a call to decide the destination of the money charged by their institutional charges and that exceeds what your ethical code. Son 10.000 euros that will finance proposals of a social nature from non-profit organizations.
The councilors and provincial deputies can only enter 35,000 euros per year, according to the internal rule of Marea. The rest will finance the program Projects Window. Each initiative of associations, foundations or cooperatives may obtain a 2,000 maximum until consuming the 10,000 that make up the game. The deadline for submitting applications will be open between July 30 and September 13. In this call, the program will pay attention to housing, sustainable mobility, health, care, civil rights, responsible consumption, culture and environmentalism; and marks as “transversal axes” to assess the proposals feminism, social integration and socio-community dynamization. Entities must carry out their activity in the municipal term of A Coruña.
“We fulfill the promise to dedicate the salary surplus to social purposes,” the spokesman for Marea Atlántica defended at a press conference. Diego Jimenez, who recalled that one of the “first decisions” of the local PSOE government after the municipal elections was “to increase the salary of all councilors.”
“The mayor Inés Rey charges practically twice as much as Xulio Ferreiro,” said Jiménez, who stressed that the councilors of the formation have a salary “limit” of 35,000 euros. The training hopes that this first call can be repeated in future years.
Rights Office
Atlantic Tide will also launch the Rights Office, an advisory service for people in vulnerable situations, to guide and support them in their relationship with the administrations, for example to request the Municipal Social Income. This office will also be financed with what Marea calls “salary surplus“.
Atlantic Tide will debate the ‘reinforcement of participation mechanisms’ at its general assembly this year
Marea Atlántica will convene this year its general assembly, in which the “reinforcement of participation mechanisms” will be debated, as explained by Diego Jiménez, who has defended this as one of the ideas that the coordinator has, who took possession of early 2020.
Jiménez explained that the so-called Marea Viva is pending organization due to the health crisis, but argues that the “reinforcement of territorialization by neighborhoods” of the training will also be debated.
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