The council in Los Montesinos has decided to ask the public what works they think should be undertaken using the money for Plan E next year. The mayor says that they want to know which projects would be most beneficial to the community, those which would enable them to construct a town where they would all want to live in future.
To achieve this aim, the tow hall has produced a survey with open and closed questions which residents can complete either on paper or online. Presumably, when the results come in they will be analysed to find out if there is any sort of consensus. Then they will have to draw up a list of affordable projects to submit to Madrid.
Now this does sound all very egalitarian and I am sure the motives behind it are good however, the cynical side of me says it could be that the council really don’t have a clue what to spend the money on next year. They are hoping that the general public will come up with something worthwhile.
It is the same with any staged funding, the first phase you know exactly what to spend the money on. By the second or third phase, if it wasn’t planned right from the outset, you struggle to find useful projects to undertake.
I doubt that Bigastro will face this sort of dilemma because I’m sure the council have a list of improvements that could still be made to the town with next year’s funding.
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