The City Council of Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelonès Nord) launches this Saturday a participatory process to improve the Municipal Action Plan (PAM) for the next four years with contributions from residents. With this objective, for example, until the month of May, a fortnight of thematic sessions will be organized and, starting in the spring, tents will be installed in the streets to be able to collect the opinion of the less mobilized citizens, who usually, by For whatever reason, he does not make his voice heard. To encourage the participation of these neighbors, and as a novelty, a type of ‘scratch and win’ card will be made where, in exchange for making contributions in relation to different topics, participants will receive small gifts.
During the presentation of the participatory process, the mayor of Santa Coloma de Gramanet, Núria Parlon, recalled that the PAM is the document that defines the main lines of transformation of the municipality based on the PSC’s electoral program, endorsed by a large majority at the polls, and that the objective now is to “improve it and reach consensus” with the greatest number of neighbors.
The mayor has highlighted that the plan, beyond the technical issues, is a “social contract” that is signed every four years with the neighbors so that they can monitor the degree of compliance with it and also to “dream big.” incorporating into the document “the maximum number of ideas and complicities.”
With this objective, that of adding the maximum number of voices, Núria Parlon has highlighted that the participatory process must be “very pedagogical” using “a language that people understand.” Here, she recalled that there are many people who do things in the neighborhoods and that, because they are not organized, they do not publicize initiatives that can contribute to the city as a whole.
Parlon is convinced that the two issues that will most concern residents and that will receive the most contributions will be housing, security and care policies for the elderly, usually recurring issues in which the council has a lot of work to do.
