From the formal transfer of Biosca and Torà from the region of La Segarra to that of Solsonès, approved after the constitution of the new town councils, more than two years will pass before the effective transfer of all services.
The waste collection agreement with the Segarra County Council ends in three years, in Torà. The collection of rubbish from the Biosca town hall will also depend for a time on the Segarra.
The two councils approved the transfers in plenary sessions on the same day that the new councils were established, on June 17, when the mayor of Biosca, Josep Puig (Junts) renewed his mandate and Isabel Torres (Junts) was elected in Torà.
The change has also meant for the two municipalities leaving the Veguería de Ponent to belong to that of Central Catalonia.
“We do not have a date to transfer all the transfers, the calendar we have to make the change will be marked by the completion of each one of the services. We have a three-year agreement for garbage collection, this will not be done yet”, says Josep Puig.
The mayor of Biosca also cites care for the elderly and youth as services that will depend on Segarra for a while and considers that the first to depend on Solsonès are secretarial and architecture services.
From Torà, the mayoress, Isabel Torres agrees with Puig that garbage collection and care for the elderly will continue to depend on La Segarra. “In civil protection we still depend on the Segarra but in matters related to the Mossos d’Esquadra, we already depend on Solsona”, affirms the mayoress.
Now his biggest concern is the lack of a secretary, the person who held the position left him on July 31.
The Parliament of Catalonia approved the passage of Torà and Biosca in March, a PSC bill that went ahead, with 111 votes in favor, none against and seven from Vox deputies and that conditioned the change to the ratification of the plenary sessions of the two consistories after the municipal elections that were to be held in May.
More money for farmers and municipalities because Solsonés is a mountain region, more public transport to Central Catalonia than to Lleida and the interest that health services depend on the veguería of Central Catalonia were some of the reasons that councils argued to promote the transfer, which had been raised on several occasions.
The General Directorate of Local Administration has asked the two county councils to create a commission to monitor transfers. From the Segarra Regional Council, its president, Ramon Augé, has advanced that he will propose compensation to the Generalitat because it is foreseeable that it will have “less income and more expenses due to the restructuring of personnel.
