In 2021, the Calp Town Council will not levy a business tax on all those entrepreneurs or tradesmen who decide to open a business or trade or change their economic activity. To this end, the ordinary plenary session of October yesterday adopted the amendment to the tax regulation regulating the fee for administrative activities resulting from the submission of pre-notification, declaration of responsibility and application for authorisation for environmental activities.
On Friday, Calp celebrates 9 October, the day of the Comunidad Valenciana, with the institutional act of awarding the "Jaume Pastor i Fluixà" prize and the city's medals of honour, which are awarded each year in recognition of the work of persons or institutions that have contributed to improving society. In this edition, the event will be held in the Plaça Major and with limited attendance, although the event can be followed on the City Council's social networks.
Calp City Council plans to purchase four new electric vehicles and two hybrid vehicles for the local police and civil protection. To this end, it will invest 205,700 euros from the 2019 budget surplus, taking advantage of the fact that the central government stipulates that municipalities can use 7 per cent of the previous year's surplus to finance electric vehicles or vehicles with a zero eco-label or ultimately with an ECO label.
At the next plenary session, which will take place on 13 October, Calp Town Council will adopt a budgetary amendment to grant a grant of 1,000 euros to local AMPA (parents' associations) for educational and telematic material.
This grant will be in addition to the 500 euros subsidy which the parents' associations receive each school year for expenditure during the school year (activities, events, materials, etc.).
The Calp City Council has just awarded the paving and lighting works for the D7 road, which begins on Avenida Diputación and ends on a street in the Benicolada district. The opening of this road is crucial to the start of work on the pedestrian bridge over the N332, as it will provide an exit for the area's neighbours, whose current access will disappear with the construction of the pedestrian bridge.
The Calp Town Council is continuing the installation of letter boxes in the municipality's "urbanizaciones" (housing estates) to ensure the delivery of postal items, after the Post Office announced a few years ago that it was interrupting the door-to-door delivery service in the housing estates which do not have concentrated letter boxes or which are not properly organised in accordance with the provisions of the Law on the liberalisation of the universal postal service and postal services.
This morning was the last guided visit to the Roman site "Baños de la Reina" (Queen's Baths), organised by the City Council for Culture throughout the summer. The visits were free of charge and took place in groups of 20 people, wearing masks and keeping a safe distance. They were led by the archaeological director of the site, Alicia Luján, who explained the history and importance of this enclave to the participants every Tuesday of the last few months. As every year, the participants' interest was focused on these two main elements of the site: the mosaics and the waterwheel.
Yesterday, work began on the redesign of the pavements in Corbeta Street. This involves repairing the sections of the pavement that have been damaged by the roots of the trees.