In order to be with the people when they need it most and strengthen the services provided by the Municipality of Coquimbo, Mayor Ali Manouchehri prioritized more than one billion pesos from the budget, redirected to purchase equipment and materials in support of the emergency, strengthen Primary Health care and the Coquimbo lights up program.In this way, and as the community chief has ordered, to promote austere management, reducing unnecessary expenses and that every peso is spent on the people of Coquimbo, a budget modification was made, approved unanimously by the Municipal Council, which reallocates $1,186 million, of which $465 million correspond to overtime and per diem for staff and contract personnel, and reduces the budget to other public entities by an amount of $568 million.These monies will be allocated to emergency aid for the frontal system that will allow the leasing of machinery for road repair for $63 million;motor pumps for $13 million;purchase of nylon to help affected families for $15 million and the purchase of supplies and special clothing for municipal emergency teams for $72 million.Added to this are $30 million for the purchase of aggregates and materials to repair roads and events caused by the rains.“From the first minute we were supporting this climatic emergency for the affected neighbors, and now we have allocated resources that were often wasted to help those who are having problems with their houses and the repair of roads.We will not leave any Coquimbano or Coquimbana alone,” Mayor Manouchehri said.In addition, with these more than one billion approved by the council, it seeks to strengthen other services that the municipality provides to the community.In this way, resources of nearly $300 million will be prioritized for the purchase of two ambulances to be allocated to the Primary Health Care facilities, vehicles that are added to two other emergency mobiles that will be financed by the Regional Government.These monies are added to the more than $2,500 million that the current management has transferred to the APS, "a milestone never seen before, which also comes to respond to a demand not only from users, but also from officials and officials of the different health centers”, adds Mayor Ali ManouchehriPart of the reassigned money will also allow the strengthening of the "Coquimbo lights up" program, allowing the purchase of materials to repair new lights, investing more than $200 million in a second stage."We have promoted 2,273 public lighting solutions, but there is still a lot to repair, and for this we need these resources that allow us to give a sense of security to our population and the streets have lights in good condition," concluded the mayor of Coquimbo.© 2022 Newspaper The Day |Brazil Street 431, La Serena, Chile.News from the Coquimbo Region.La Serena, Coquimbo, Ovalle, Andacollo, Canela, Illapel, Los Vilos, Salamanca, La Higuera, Paihuano, Vicuña, Combarbalá, Monte Patria, Punitaqui, Río Hurtado.