27-06-2008 : Palma pledges 70m in investment
The Mayor of Palma, Aina Calvo, has pledged that her administration will honour its pledge to invest 70 million euros in the city’s infrastructure despite the economic downturn. “The crisis is no excuse for not following through with what has been agreed, but the stimulus that obliges us to improve delivery of resources,” said Calvo in a speech during the debate on the state of the city yesterday morning.
Calvo highlighted some of the achievements of the first year of the legislature and highlighted the need for Palma, as well as other Spanish cities, to be financed in a “more just and balanced way”.
The Mayor said that the economic needs of the city’s population were at the top of the council’s list of priorities, hence the freeze on the price of basic services such as water and the bus.