Calvià Town Hall requests to the Council, for the third time, the inclusion of the Portals Vells road improvements, within the Construction Works and Services Plan 2011
All political groups with municipal representation, agreed unanimously, in the Calvià Town Hall´s plenary, celebrated last Tuesday, to request the Mallorca Council, for the third time, the inclusion of the Portals Vells road improvements project, within the Insular Construction Works and Services Plan 2011.
The bad state of this road surface, has been, once more, the argument used by the municipal corporation for the financing contribution by the Insular Institution for this construction work. The improvement of this road was requested to the Insular Council in 2008 for its inclusion in the 2009 Construction Works and Services Plan. However, in that occasion the Council ignored this petition. In 2009, the Mayor Carlos Delgado, once more requested to the Local Corporation Councillor, Miquel Rosselló, in his visit to the Town Hall to learn about the projects that Calvià wanted to present at the 2010 official announcement, the refurbishment works on the road in Portals Vells which had not been taken in consideration by the Council, the previous year, as well as the officially requested, the same year, related to the sports area in Costa de la Calma. In mentioned meeting, the councillor promised not forgetting Calvià this time and finance both projects.
However, despite Miquel Rosselló´s commitment with the Mayor, in 2010 neither the Portals Vells road improvement was not carried out nor any financing was received for the other presented project, the construction of a sports area in Costa de la Calma. In other words, the Council did not give Calvià the promised subvention in the 2010 official announcement, whereas 48 municipalities on the island, in between them, all those with more than 10.000 inhabitants, received the subventions which had been requested.
In any case, it will be the Town Hall who will assume alone the construction of the sports area in Costa de la Calma, which will start shortly.
Now, two years after the first municipal petition, for the Portals Vells road improvement and due to the even worse damage of mentioned road surface, the government team has requested, for the third time, to the Council, the subvention for the repair of mentioned road.
The access road to Portals Vells is the only entrance to the old residential estate in Portals Vells, to the coves of the area (El Mago, Portals Vells, Muelle Barreiros, etc.), to the Golf in Son Ferrer and to the different estates and adjacent farms. The municipal´s intention with this project, which budget adds up to 544.793 euros, is not other than to improve the access to the area for the residents and businessmen and the considerable number of citizens and tourists who go to the beaches in Portals Vells, especially during the summer months.
The work which is due to be done, consists only of the improving of the 5 kilometres long existing road without altering its route and with little impact in the environment. Since the construction of mentioned road, more than 35 years ago, the Town Hall has carried out maintenance work and repairs, but these are insufficient to guarantee the complete road security.