Benitachell Town Hall
About 80 people have attended 2 informative meetings to introduce them to the Future Residents Council for Poble Nou de Benitatxell. The Mayor, Josep Femenia, was in charge of explaining the willingness of the governing parties (BLOC and CCD) to create a new consultative body with residents’ representation, incorporating every neighbourhood in town.
The first meetings held on this regard on 27 and 28 February served as an introduction, where the Mayor explained the three grounds for this new body: “first, improve the communication between the town hall and the residents; second, to promote the participation of the residents in the Council and as a result, in the town hall; third and last, detecting needs of the residents and integrating them into the town life.” Likewise, Femenia declared that the council “will also be a tool to improve services, in and out of town, to better know the needs about their functioning and space for improvement.”
The Mayor mentioned that nowadays, the town counts 5,780 inhabitants and “we all share the same space, the same problems, challenges and the need to create mechanisms to be better communicated and integrated.” Regarding this, the Mayor explained that during the last decades, the demographic and social structure of the town has changed and there is a need to suit all residents’ needs while promoting commitment among them.
The next step to create the organisation will be holding small meetings with representatives of the 43 neighbourhoods of Poble Nou de Benitatxell to go deeper into the role of the Council and to inform about the deadline to assign the representatives of each neighbourhood. The election of the representatives should be agreed between all the residents. In this regard, the Mayor requested collaborative efforts to the residents “to make of this project a successful one.” Now the “neighbourhood” meetings are expected to be held from 20 March to 18 April.