This Saturday, June 11, marks Neighborhood Day. Mayor Enrique Cresto participated in the events organized by the Neighborhood Commissions Coordination, which began with the laying of a floral offering at the main cross in the cemetery, in tribute to the citizens of Concordia who made neighborhood activism great in the city. "We must recover neighborhood activism and make it the tool to transform the neighborhood," stated the mayor, and the selfless work carried out by neighborhood presidents was valued.
"We want there to be functioning commissions in all neighborhoods," said Enrique Cresto, "not only that there are elections and that all residents of each neighborhood can participate, but that neighborhood activism is seen as the tool to transform the neighborhood together with the mayor's office," he maintained.
"From the first day of our administration, our proposal is to work in a coordinated manner. That is why we meet once a week, with five or six neighborhood commissions each week and the participation of officials from different areas, to plan the work in each neighborhood," he commented. "This modality has been working very well, because progress is being made in the repair of the road network, the clearing of land, the lack of lighting, the repair of some sewers, different problems that the neighborhood representatives pass on to us and we are planning."
"We must recover neighborhood activism"
The mayor referred on this date to the importance of the role played by neighborhood commissions. "The president of a neighborhood runs for election, is freely chosen by their residents, and does not receive payment for that role. If they then go to the Municipality and have to wait in line for procedures and officials do not attend to them, they lose strength and motivation. And their function and importance are distorted." For this reason, Cresto maintained, "we must recover neighborhood activism," which "is the first organization of the residents, the closest to each one," he highlighted.
In this sense, he referred to the Municipality's decentralization project proposed by the Executive branch, through which different districts will be created in the city. Benito Legerén, La Bianca, Osvaldo Magnasco, Villa Zorraquín, Villa Adela, the Fourth section divided into four districts, plus the Third, Second, and First sections. "The objective is to coordinate work with the Neighborhood Commissions through the Delegations, so that procedures are more direct and effective, and solutions arrive quickly," he concluded.