The spokesperson for Cs Xàbia, Enrique Escrivá, has made an assessment of the political situation that 2021 leaves us, characterized according to the mayor by "the lack of dialogue and the roll of a government team collapsed and unable to carry out both large-scale projects and economic reactivation measures agreed by all political groups".
A local government "eternally shielded in bureaucracy"
This is how Escrivá has stated, pointing out breaches in important points of the RECUPEREM XÀBIA 2021 agreement, signed by all the political forces of the Town hall last year, to launch the economic and social recovery of the municipality. "Measures such as trade bonds, which are being a real revulsion in the municipalities where they are being implemented, and which in the case of Xàbia would be an incentive and a respite for the merchants' cash and the neighbors' pockets, we see that they continue without getting started by a government team saturated and without ideas ”.
A local executive, according to Escrivá, “unable to implement another of the measures agreed in the framework of RECUPEREM XÀBIA, such as aid to pay the garbage tax for sectors affected by the effects of COVID, as has been and it is still the hospitality industry, so punished by restrictions and uncertainty ”. Likewise, in the opinion of the mayor, "that aid to face Social Security or autonomous contributions for those businesses that have kept their workers after the summer season does not come, reveals the inability of the local government to implement a measure that, furthermore, it was the local executive himself who announced it publicly twenty months ago ”.
All proposals for constructive opposition fall on deaf ears
"I do not know if it is due to lack of management or fear that it will be shown that another way of governing, more open and collaborative is possible, but it seems that the contributions from the opposition bother them."
In this sense, the Cs spokesperson has referred to the fact that “each and every one of the proposals publicly transferred to the government team are victims of the roll or of the ignorance on the part of the government councilors. Something sad, especially taking into account the responsibility and improvement that the residents of Xàbia have shown, especially economically to get ahead, and on many occasions without help from anyone. For this reason, - Escriva has continued-, “I want to vindicate proposals that I have moved several times in the Plenary, such as that the effort made by the xabieros must be returned in the form of a reduction in the water rate, so that the saving and responsible consumption of a scarce good like water ”.
In addition, the mayor added "we see how the same fate, have run other proposed measures, such as the implementation of a line of aid for clubs and sports entities that have and continue to bet on making sport visible day after day female in Xàbia. Some grants, which Escrivá explained “would be independent of the contributions that the clubs already receive via an agreement, and which would serve to recognize the commitment of the clubs and entities that are committed to consolidating gender equality through sport, giving our local athletes the prominence and the opportunities they deserve ”.
In this section, the xabiero councilor has remarked that despite the indifference of the local government “from Cs Xàbia we have been and will be next to neighbors and associations with proposals such as turning the Central Cinema into the headquarters of the future School of Music of Xàbia, achieving thus a double effect: as a catalyst for the xabiera culture and at the same time as an attraction to revitalize our Old Town. As well as that the empty premises of the City Council on Cristo del Mar street “be prepared and enabled for neighbors and associations, serving as a multipurpose space and also as a support point for the OAC in the Port, bringing the City Council closer to the neighbors ”.
In addition, from Cs Xàbia we are going to continue fighting and asking the local government to 'get wet', so that the Arenal Medical Clinic is open 365 days a year, and not only during holiday periods. In this sense, the mayor has regretted that the local government "only remembers" the regional Health to collect the legitimate demands of the workers, but instead has not claimed before the Ministry that in the urban nucleus of Arenal "attention should be given every day of the year and in facilities that allow a better quality of care to those who come ". In addition, he has bet that, “while this is not possible, that the Department of Culture decentralize the cultural programming, and once a month a cultural event is organized in these facilities, which are paid for out of the pocket of the xabieros and remain in disuse for nine months a year ”.
Outstretched hand to attract companies and solve housing problems in Xàbia
On the other hand, Escrivá has positively valued the decrease in IBI carried out by the government team, "a measure that I supported as a way of transferring the good financial health of the City Council to the residents of Xàbia." A measure praised by the spokesman xabiero, of which he has nevertheless pointed out that “we hope that it is not just a kind of Black Friday of the IBI, with which to camouflage future increases in rates and taxes. In addition, the mayor has asked the executive "courage to take another step, favoring the creation of companies in Xàbia, starting aid to pay the down payment for the water supply, as I have proposed several times to the Mayor" . As explained by the orange spokesperson, "it is a fee that currently is around € 2.000 on average, so it would be aid that could decline the balance in favor of many companies that are thinking of settling in Xàbia, and continue thus encouraging the creation of wealth and quality employment throughout the year ”.
In the same way, Escrivá has reached out to all the groups that make up the Corporation to face the challenges it faces AMJASA, for example, with the management of the sewerage network, as well as to study the way that "from the City Council the promotion of Public Protection Housing can be assumed, achieving, through an agile and close municipal management, reaching more Quick to solve the problems and housing needs that are detected from Servicios Sociales, as in the case of vulnerable groups such as young people, with many of them who find it difficult, today, to be able to consolidate their present and future project in Xàbia”.
The Red Lantern: The Ramblars Cloud and the Paralysis of Major Projects
In the chapter on pending issues, for Escrivá highlights "the local executive's reluctance to give explanations publicly" and launch an investigation "that has all the forces of the City Council and affected sectors, to clarify the origin and causes that have caused the fire in Ramblars ”.
However, the mayor added, “the worst thing about the absence of public explanations, and that there is no joint investigation or a roadmap to fight the fire in Ramblars together, is that the government does not seem to have learned anything from the previous fires, and thus, if everything continues the same, we will continue to be sold against future fires that may occur in Ramblars ”.
On the other hand, the Cs spokesman has stated that the construction works of the Xàbia pool "are good news." However, -he continued- "we will have to be prudent with this project, since we do not have to do much memory to see the paralysis and secrecy that the local government shows when from the opposition we ask them about the large projects, so far failed , which have pending ”. According to the mayor, “with the construction of the Auditorium stopped for a year and a half; while we do not know what will happen to the future industrial estate, so necessary for Xàbia, of which the urbanization works are not progressing ”.
"We want consensual budgets, not lentils"
This is how Escrivá has referred to the lack of updated accounts, which Xàbia has been waiting for four years. In this way, the mayor has asked the municipal executive "a roadmap that we can work on and agree between all political forces, to consolidate the recovery in Xàbia after two hard years and thus leave behind, among all, the effects of the pandemic. In addition, the mayor xabiero has added: “we want budgets that reflect the diversity of Xàbia; and that they are participatory, that they also have the contributions of the neighbors through a direct match, so that they are accounts that the residents of Xàbia feel as their own, especially after 4 years without budgets that respond to reality and needs of the xabieros ”. Some budgets that according to Escrivá, “cannot be another plate of express lentils, a game that the government team has accustomed us to in order to try to leave the opposition parties out of the game, especially when it comes to approving relevant matters ”.
In addition to the lack of budgets, another of the pending issues that Escrivá has affected the local government is “the lack of a strategy on the table and agreed with the opposition on tourism, to enter the next calls for the Plans of Tourist Sustainability in Destination. "A key initiative" - the mayor continued - "which must be worked together with the Consell de Turisme, if we really want Xàbia to be an intelligent, accessible tourist destination that is committed to caring for our natural environment". A strategy, "crucial" for the municipality and of which, according to Escrivá, "we hope to have news soon to be able to receive European aid, as municipalities around us have already done, since the first train of such aid, with the first call for These Tourism Sustainability Plans have already passed by Xàbia.
Finally, the orange spokesperson added: “Let's hope that on this issue, they don't come with the rush and the roller to which they have accustomed us, and do not repeat another number such as that of the garbage adjudication, in which they pretended that We approved a contract of almost 50 million euros for 8 years in just one week, when they also took all the opposition out of the equation from minute one, and the sad thing is that after seven months since the contract was awarded, we still have not they have explained to us how the new service is going to be developed ”.
