The 2023-2024 edition of the Santa Cruz participatory budgets has become the one that has received the largest number of proposals since it was launched. Specifically, 541 ideas have been presented, including the 97 of the city line, created in this edition, compared to the 299 of the previous one. The mayor of Citizen Participation, Javier Rivero, shows his satisfaction with the commitment of the neighbors. “We are very happy. The work of informants on the street, the mailing in Anaga, or the face-to-face workshops in the associations were noted. Rivero will present today in plenary session the activity carried out by his area in 2022.
Regarding the participatory budgets, before the voting period can open in June, the municipal technicians are reviewing each of the proposals, after the deadline for presenting ideas has closed. The technicians will now check if the proposals conform to the call and if their realization is technically viable. Each district has 230,000 euros to execute, while the city line will have 250,000.
By district, Anaga has been the most participatory, with 125 ideas. Most of them have to do with improving access, such as the Tahodio ravine, where it is recalled that several people spend the night who are attended by the Mobile Approach Unit (UMA), or the entrance to La Charca in Cueva Bermeja, which the neighbors is done through a street that is not prepared and that is causing structural damage to homes.
In Centro-Ifara, 94 proposals were presented, and they range from creating an Interpretation Center of the Gesta in the surroundings of the Plaza de España, to recovering the bed of the Santos ravine for recreational use, or making a waterfall at the height of the Viera and Clavijo. Urinals for dogs, ecological dovecotes, or an urban slide on the side of the parking lot of the Ramón y Cajal street extension as revitalization, also add to the proposals.
In Ofra-Costa Sur, where the residents have been less participatory, with only 49 proposals, maintenance work or improvements to existing infrastructures have been the most requested. The request for tents for the emergency sidewalk of the Ofra Health Center, the creation of an urban garden in García Escámez or a healthy walk on Avenida Príncipes de España stand out.
In the Salud-La Salle district, with 89 proposals, the suggestions also focus on improvements such as rehabilitating the pillars of the Loño bridge, expanding the sidewalk of the Zurita Bridge, or pacifying and creating a safe environment in the area of the district institutes. They also ask for a climbing wall in La Granja park, or for noise meters to be installed in the terraced area of Cabo Llanos.
Among the 87 ideas from the Southwest there are dog parks, shade placement in parks, stairs to reach the Barranco del Muerto, or the placement of a zip line and benches in the Pico Viejo Volcano Park, in El Sobradillo.
