The Mijas Village Neighbourhood Council, promoted by the Citizen Participation area, held its first meeting on Tuesday 21st in the afternoon in the Plenary Hall of the City Council since it was constituted on July 6th. In this new meeting, its members have been presented with a diagnosis on different realities made according to the contributions of the neighbours. “It is a diagnosis that has been made through the ‘online’ office and through the participatory marquees set up on the streets, where our neighbours have been able to talk about the different questions that they have been asked about issues regarding safety, mobility, culture in our municipality, cleanliness”, pointed out the councillor for Citizen Participation, Tamara Vera (PSOE), who acted as president and clarified that three diagnoses have been made, one per nucleus, the first of which was presented on Tuesday 21st, that of Mijas Pueblo, to the neighbourhood council of this part of the municipality. The neighbours welcomed this second meeting with interest: “above all what the neighbours expect from this is that we bring up, not big projects, of course, but small things that on a day-to-day basis, which are good for them and that perhaps the government team and the political parties are not aware of all those details that they do see on a daily basis”, said the vice president of this neighbourhood council, Juan Antonio Ruiz. In this way, with this meeting, the work tables begin to collect the neighbourhood proposals. In this sense, the deputy mayor José Carlos Martín (Cs) spoke, explaining that “these are already work meetings”. “In this one in particular, a diagnosis will be brought to the table and it will be possible to begin to debate, between politicians and citizens, some type of initiative; that is the true foundation of these neighbourhood councils, that all citizens and neighbours participate and that we, at the management level, can receive all these concerns”, added Martín.

Participation measure The Mijas Pueblo Neighbourhood Board was constituted with 16 members among neighbours, groups and political representatives; Among them, the councillor Laura Moreno (PSOE), who stressed that progress continues in terms of citizen participation in Mijas thanks to this new option with neighbourhood councils in which, she said, they can continue working on projects of great interest to Mijas, hand in hand with the neighbours. “We hope that this space will also serve as another form of direct communication between citizens and a public administration that is increasingly open to the participation of all”, added the councillor. The meeting was also attended by the councillor of the PP Silvia Marín, who applauded that the diagnosis, made by an external company, was presented by neighbourhoods: “It is very interesting because we can focus on districts, places and specific problems. If in Osunillas the problem is cleaning, there we go with cleaning, which is super important as we cut corners to solve the residents’ problems”.

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