He Cuenca City Council plans to modify various municipal rates in the plenary session which will be held on Monday October 28as announced this Wednesday by the city’s mayor, Darío Dolz, who added that the garbage rate would not be changed.
And many municipalities in the country are applying these increases since Law 7/2022 of April 8 on waste and contaminated soil for a circular economy, which transposes a 2018 European directive, will force citizens to assume the entire cost of collecting , transport and treat the waste that goes to the waste container, from until now They only paid part.
The deadline for local entities apply it in April 2025and federations like the Madrileña de Municipios (FMM) have published a manifesto in which they ask the Spanish government that its application is not obligatory.
“Not a penny will be affected, even if there will be a change only in the text,” Dolz said. In addition, this same Wednesday an extraordinary meeting of the local government took place, during which modifications to other municipal taxes were discussed.
The mayor did not want to give more details because in the coming days the information commissions will be held at the Town Hall and he hopes that the different political groups that make up the municipal corporation have direct knowledge of commissions.
One of the prices that will be modifiedr, as the automobile association Convecu recently reported, is that of IMTV, to subsidize said tax on ecological cars.
Electric buses
On the other hand, the mayor of Cuenca insisted that it is the urban transport concessionaire of Cuenca which must launch the new electric buses, which have already been in the garages for months.
“The contract speaks of a certain number of buses and that the company which provides the service, when the vehicles reach retirement age, will have to replace them,” recalled the first mayor, who abstained. to give more dates for the commissioning of these. cars.
“So they don’t respect them,” denounced Dolz, who apologized to users because the shortcomings are precisely due to their age. In the meantime, Dolz assured, the government team continues to “strengthen” itself through meetings with the company.
felling of trees
Before the presentation at the Paleontological Museum of the Biodiversity Foundation projects, the mayor of Cuenca was also questioned about the criticisms made by Ciudadanos by removing vegetation and felling treesin particular a cypress, near the works of the Puente de la Trinidad, “an inevitable condition”, according to the mayor, for the construction of the accessibility platforms of this tunnel, although he indicated that when the works are completed the work will study what can be restored.
“The works need their space and the project was exhibited so that everyone can claim“, recalled Dolz, who emphasized that these works will allow “a person in a wheelchair to pass from the José Luis Perales Auditorium to the mouth of the Recreo Peral.
