The City of Puerto Lumbreras requests "agility" the Central Government to urgently restore the historical and cultural heritage, as well as equipment and public facilities such as schools, colleges and health centers in the neighboring town
Puerto Lumbreras City Council approve the next Municipal Council a motion requesting the Central Government to speed up the procedures for the Plan is activated Lorca urgently and help to "speed up recovery and rehabilitation of the earthquake damage of May 11 in the town Lorca. "
In this sense, what is intended with this motion is to accelerate the implementation of the Plan includes actions to help Lorca municipality recovery and mitigate an urgent direct and indirect damage caused by the earthquake that toppled more than 1,000 homes and affected over 25,000 homes.
Thus, the Lorca Plan, prepared by the Regional Government and the municipality of Lorca, includes proposals with an investment of 1,650 million euros to alleviate the damage caused in the City of the Sun, where the historical and cultural heritage was seriously damaged, and where they also had to be closed eight schools and three institutes, cleared a geriatric hospital and all, like all sports and most municipal buildings.
In this sense, the session approved the motion lumbrerense the Municipal Council next Tuesday.
So, the Mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, explained that "since the earthquake struck the lumbrerenses turned to help citizens affected by Lorca."
To this end, the Municipality of Puerto Lumbreras launched an Office of Solidarity with Lorca in order to coordinate the assistance provided lumbrerenses citizens.
Moreover, from the first moment of the municipality associations and groups joined with charity events to raise funds, and also made available to the various public buildings Lorca to continue providing services that were affected in the neighboring town by earthquakes.
Finally, Sanchez explained that "this motion constants we join the requests of the City of Lorca and the Regional Government that the Central Government as possible to expedite the implementation of the Plan will mark Lorca actions to expedite recovery the city. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras