Santa Cruz will be able to incorporate up to 11 electric buses into public transport this year thanks to money from European Next Generation funds for reconstruction.
Yesterday, the plenary session of the City Council of the capital approved the budget modification that will allow adding 2.2 million euros to the Consistory’s budget, which, added to another 3.3 million of its own funds, will allow the purchase of electric buses.
As explained by the Councilor for Finance, Juan José Martín, at the end of the plenary session, “in total there are 5.5 million that we will allocate to the purchase of these vehicles, which come to add to the six buses that we already acquired through the dondos of the DUSI, and the 19 hybrids that we will add with our own funds”. “In this way -continued the councilor-, the fleet of renewable buses would reach 36 buses”.
As stated in the file that was presented yesterday in plenary session, on February 17, the General Secretariat for Transport and Mobility of the Government of Spain communicated the provisional resolution granting assistance from the aid program for municipalities to the implementation of low-emission zones and the digital and sustainable transformation of urban transport, by virtue of which a subsidy is granted to the City Council for an amount of 2.2 million to finance the purchase of 100% electric buses for urban service.
Sports
In this operative part, the modification of the Fiscal Ordinance of the Public Price for registration in events, sports activities and provision of sports equipment was also approved, through which the families of the municipality with fewer resources will be able to access sports activities for free. In this way, the guardians of minors who are users of the social services of the municipality will be able to benefit from this modification, both for them and for the children.
Families without resources who need to practice sports by medical prescription will also be changed from this modification, so that they will not have to pay for the use of municipal sports centers either.
