The Council is allocating €123,558.77 of provincial funding to the creation of employment and to help families in the municipality who are suffering as a result of the continuing economic crisis in Spain.
The proposal will be approved at the Council meeting on Friday, the government having an absolute majority.
The announcement was made by the Councillor for Infrastructure, José Alberto Tomé, leading one to believe that this will take the usual form of a number of very short-term renovation or street lighting projects rather than any long term strategy or encouragement for people to start up in business.
Such projects, of course, benefit the municipal authorities through license fees etc, and although it does ‘tidy up’ various parts of the town, does nothing to solve the long term problems.
Maybe this time will be different.
It is the same situation, though, in the majority of municipalities, very few doing anything to create long term or lasting employment, concentrating instead on three or four month renovation projects.