The Consell de la Infància i l'Adolescència de El Poble Nou de Benitatxell held this Tuesday the last meeting of the 2019-2020 academic year. The mayor, Miguel Ángel García, and the councilor for Education and Children, Jorge Pascual, accompanied the boys and girls in a somewhat different session. After their last telematic meetings because of COVID-19, they were finally able to meet again in the church square, an open and spacious place where they could maintain the minimum security distance.
The counselors and counselors proved to have very clear ideas. With a demanding, positive, hard-working and inclusive attitude, they conveyed their demands and proposals to the political leaders of the Town hall. In terms of infrastructure, the most important request was the repair of the Moraig cove after storm Gloria.
The first mayor explained that the rehabilitation works are already being carried out and transmitted the main changes that are going to be implemented to recover their natural character. “We want to recover the beach as it was, remove the concrete from the parking lot and have people park at the top to damage the environment as little as possible. Because if it goes against nature, it is always more powerful than the human being ”, he stressed.
The members of the council also asked to recondition the viewpoint of the church and greater security, both in the scattered and in the urban center. For the Els Molins urbanization, they asked to repair the lighting so that it is not dark at night, and in the case of Padre Plácido street, to regulate traffic, especially that of large trucks, which “They circulate at high speed in an area where many children live”.
Regarding the environmental area, one of the demands was that attention be paid to tree planting programs to monitor, irrigate and care for them so that they do not dry out. Likewise, they also showed interest in the most vulnerable families, with whom they showed great solidarity asking that the city council help them as much as possible. In particular, they highlighted the difficulties of many children during confinement to access education through new technologies.
El mayor of Education and childhood congratulated them for their great work "Despite the strange period that you have had to live" and assured that progress has already been made in last year's proposals. He also thanked them for their solidarity and interest in the children who are having a hard time. He also told them about the progress made in the Local Plan for Children and Adolescents that is being drafted to obtain the distinctive of a Child-Friendly City granted by Unicef.
Security in PADRE PLACIDO? That they tell the mayor to close the PADRE PLACIDO street with landmarks, just as he did on the street where he lives in CALISTROS.