JAN, 20 (EUROPA PRESS)
The mayor of Jan, Julio Milln, has defended before the Economic and Social Council (CES) that the capital of Jaen is able to face the challenges of the future “in a better position than four years ago”.
Milln has appeared for almost two hours before the plenary session of the Local CES to report on the management work carried out in recent months by the local government (PSOE-Cs) and “collect proposals, initiatives and suggestions that may be useful to incorporate into the daily work of the Consistory by this body”.
“I have wanted to state that we have faced a mandate from a situation of urgency and necessity when we arrived at the City Council in 2019, from the outset, and after having gone through complex situations, along with a pandemic and a price crisis, and I think it has been has done in a positive way and with a great job that allows us to be optimistic”, said the mayor.
On this point, he has stressed that the City Council is in “a much better situation than four years ago to face the challenges of the future in many areas: the transformation of the city, its mobility, public and private investments, among others”. “.
The councilor has remarked that “a change was necessary in the city, to break with a dynamic of social pessimism that the organizational disorder of the City Council itself sometimes fostered, by not being able to respond to many of the demands of the citizen and exit to projects that were coming”.
In the same way, he has indicated as key the organization of the City Council itself, where work has been done for stabilization, updating the list of jobs that improves human resources in its attention to citizens, in the field of electronic processing which was from the last century and the coordination for contracting and bidding for projects.
He has also made reference to the normalization of urban maintenance, basic services to the citizenry, cultural programming, gardening, the change in urban transport. In this regard, he has pointed out that only the change of company is not enough to improve mobility, for which work is being done with projects for the adaptation of pedestrian paths in the city belt, the sensorization with seven million euros of the capital already about to end and the need to promote the tram and complete the agreement signed more than a year ago.
“It was necessary to return to these basic questions of the organizational functioning of the city and generate hope, confidence and also the improvement of the different areas that allow us to attract investment, activate the economy and be able to meet the needs of the city”, said Milln .
In this sense, the councilor has made reference to the advances in the projects of the European Strategy for Sustainable Urban Development (DUSI) already underway “which also imply a transformation of areas such as the old part of the city, in addition to the cooperation work with the Provincial Council to encourage the arrival of technology and service companies or the adaptation of sports facilities and the construction of others such as the athletics track”.
Along with this, he recalled the work to be loyal and favor public investment, such as the transfer of land for facilities of the Board such as the Ciudad Sanitaria, de la Justicia or the Alameda health center and give confidence to private investment. “There are investments in the socio-sanitary field, such as the hospital that begins its construction in January, the residence of El Valle, new hotels that arise in the heat of the good work that is done in tourism, and all this without neglecting the aspect of daily care of citizens in services and social policies”, said Milln.
He has also called for unity around the project of the Technological Center for Development and Experimentation (Cetedex) that the Government of Spain through the Ministry of Defense is going to implement in Jan, noting that it is about this “present and future project that Jan needs”, is that it is an investment that “diversifies the economy of Jan that has been claimed so much in strategic plans”.
For his part, the president of the CES, Manuel Carceln, has defended that it is necessary to bet on “this positive look at the present and the future”. “We hope that what comes next will continue to be exciting,” he said.
