The Calp Plenary has approved, with the only votes in favour of the government team (PP - Ciudadanos), the tender for the service contract for the collection and transport of solid waste and street cleaning of the municipality. This is one of the city's most important contracts, worth €44,811,285.20 for a total term of nine years.
This item, the most important on the agenda, provoked a great debate among the municipal groups.
Last May, Calp Town Council agreed with the GAMASER laboratory, Global Omnium (which includes Aguas de Calpe -the waterworks-), to carry out a series of wastewater samples that will allow the implementation of a method for epidemiological surveillance through the analysis of wastewater. The aim is to know the presence, concentration and evolution of genomic units of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater, which causes the disease COVID-19.
In the plenary session of the first approval of the budget, the Calp municipal government announced its intention to implement an active employment policy through a local employment plan. It was reported in the plenary session that the request for non-duplication of powers had been submitted before the Generalitat.
This procedure was decided this week, giving Calp City Council a free hand to develop the Local Employment Plan, which will eventually be endowed with 1 million euros from the surplus.
The Calp City Council and the "Servicio de Atención a Domicilio" - Nursing Service demand the immediate vaccination of the staff assigned to this department from the Regional Ministry of Health.
The Mayor, Ana Sala, accompanied by the Councillor for Health, Ana Perles, and the Councillor for Social Welfare, Noelia Císcar, have met with the SAD staff who have conveyed to the municipal authorities their concern and sense of abandonment because, despite being on the front line of social and health care and being care workers, they have not yet been vaccinated.
Aguas de Calpe has completed the rehabilitation works on the sewage pumping station in Avenida del Port. The cost of the works amounts to €80,754.55. This measure completes the rehabilitation of the sewage network of the access area to the fishing port.
Calp City Council has filed a motion to reopen proceedings against a decision by the Valencian Antifraud Authority finding the existence of irregularities in the award of a contract for a tourism promotional event that took place in the city in 2019. The city defends that the process is in accordance with the law and argues that in preparing the final decision, the authority overlooked the allegations raised by the municipal body in its defence.
Calp is finalising the specifications for the tender of the street cleaning service and the household waste collection service, one of the most economically important contracts for the municipality due to its size and impact, which aims to make Calp a benchmark for cleanliness and sustainability. The specifications will be discussed in the plenary session scheduled for next week.
Calp City Council, through the Citizen Participation Department, has launched a telematic survey to find out citizens' preferences and needs regarding leisure activities in the municipality.
The survey asks citizens if they are aware of the activities that the Town Council organises, if they correspond to their interests or needs, if they have participated in the past and what kind of activity they would like to see first from the Town when we return to a situation of normality, among other questions.