The Town Hall will invest a total of €7.8 million during 2010, with three projects taking the lion’s share of the total. Mayor Lurdes Costa revealed the Town Hall would have a budget of €51.94 million next year, 8.8 per cent less than this year, with the main cost, as in all of the Town Halls across the island, spent on personnel, although salaries have once again been frozen. However, the Mayor claimed the total shelled out on investment would remain substantial.
The new elementary school in Sa Bodega will receive the most money, €4.22 million. However, the project to enlarge Poeta Villangomez will also cost the Town Hall in the region of €950,000, with both projects also subsidised by the Balearic Government’s Education Department.
The third big project will ensure the Eivissa Centre project can near its completion, as the Mayor looks to put the finishing touches on a project which continues to run and run.
The work involves the building of a commercial warehouse and underground car-park behind the Gesa power station, to be used for storing municipal vehicles and equipment. Presently all of this material is kept in a building close to Parque de Paz, but as the Town Hall looks to clear out of the centre, the €1.5 million project has now become an essential part of the jigsaw.
Costa was also keen to point out that a great deal of money would also be spent in 2010 on maintaining public roads and gardens (€290,000), sporting facilities (€150,000), and lastly, on ensuring the new municipal offices in Tower Two of the Cetis building are fully equipped (€547,000). A total of €455,000 will also be spent on maintaining the areas regarded as part of the Heritage Site within Ibiza Town.
