So, as we approach the Municipal Elections on the 24th May, we are finding that this council are inaugurating projects which have lay in Limbo for months and in some cases a few years. The problem with this is that THIS Councillor, Jeff Wiszniewski, has not been informed or consulted on any of these projects. Despite the fact that many of these projects were initiated from our office.
One point in question, is the laying of the Tarmac on the roads of La Marina Urb.
This work commenced without this office, The Office of the Urbanizaciones, being informed. Yes, I knew that a grant had been given to San Fulgencio late last year, by the Diputacion in Alicante, but no one thought it relevant to let me know when the work was going to start. I travelled to my office one morning to find many of the roads blocked by road laying machinery.
The second point is, the Library. We had as part of our Manifesto in 2011, that we would push for a Library, here in La Marina Urb. We arranged to have a partition built in the Social Centre. We arranged to have the book cases bought. We arranged for the donation of books. We collected these books at our office and arranged to have them stored at the Social Centre. When we asked what was happening with the Library, we were informed that there was no one available to operate the Library and that they could not afford to employ anyone to run the library. It was suggested that we could organise volunteers to run the Library, but no encouragement was given. Today we discovered, that for the last few weeks, work has been going on, to erect the book shelves. A lady from the Village has been tasked to arrange and categorise the books. If it was not for a gentleman who dropped off his wife for a craft class, we still would not know.
It also looks as though the Oasis Project will get under way in the next few weeks. Again I find that this is close to the Elections. Although we still do not know who has won the contract, it seems that they are keeping this a secret as well. However I fully understand the annoyance of the residents of Oasis, who see new tarmac being laid on the Urbanisation, at no cost to the residents. One particular resident of Oasis is very angry that he has to pay approximately €8,000 as his contribution. I wonder why the contribution from Alicante, could not have been used to offset the cost to the residents of Oasis.
Our office has also put forward a project last October, for installing exercise machines in the park next to the Market Place. I wonder if that will also miraculously be started before the cut off date of 27th March. Also in the pipeline is the Men´s Shed Project, which may also be started before the cut off date.
Despite the fact that there is an agreement with the Partido Popular, they continue to forget or do not deem it necessary, to inform this office of what they are doing.
To me, this is neither of the above, this to me just shows the contempt that the PP shows for myself, our Party and the Extranjeros who reside on the Urbanisations. I am personally fed up that this Urbanisation and the residents are getting the scraps from the masters table.
The forthcoming election will afford the residents of this community, the opportunity to reverse this trend. We deserve better.
