With the presence of Mayor Francisco Azcué, during this Thursday morning, in the Assembly Hall of the Municipality of Concordia, the TAS User Registration and Census Program was presented.
The Mayor Francisco Azcué highlighted the initiative as “a huge step forward, with a series of components that have to do with the interaction with the institutions committed to the city and with civil society,” noting that on Wednesday a meeting was held in which more than a hundred people linked to equines participated, speaking directly with officials of the Municipality of Concordia and the President of the Deliberative Council, Magdalena Reta de Urquiza.
“I want to highlight these actions, which are what we promote in this idea of an open-door Municipality, close to the people, solving problems and acting in the territory,” emphasized Azcué.
Finally, he stated that it is “a program that has a series of stages and one must be clear, these transformations take time because there is also a cultural factor that is very important. You cannot press a button and change reality overnight” and for that “it requires planning and a work method based on knowledge, experience and common sense”.
COMPREHENSIVE WORK
For his part, the Chief of Cabinet, Eduardo Caminal, announced that “the approach will be carried out jointly between different municipal areas. What is sought is to make visible each of the people who currently live from animal-drawn traction as a work tool”.
“Sometimes we see that children work and accompany them in waste collection or in the delivery of sand or stone with carts, but the comprehensive work that the mayor commissioned aims for the children to be in school and to see how we accompany that family,” highlighted the Chief of Cabinet.
Caminal stated that “we are aware that there is a complicated reality in Argentina, in Concordia as well, and we cannot forget that they live from this, so we are going to make every effort to find solutions. We want to enforce the ordinance, with the Urban Guard which is very attentive to that because we have to govern for all the people of Concordia”.
INFORMATION
The Secretary of Human Development, Sebastián Arístide, stressed that the objective of the census is to accompany the families “who have to resort to the use of an animal as a source of work. Knowing who they are, what they do, where they are and why they do what they do, one gets closer to the possible solution that we can provide” from the Municipality.
The program is “medium and long term, where we will seek to change something cultural because the horse is not the best for what they are doing; seeking to technify and modernize the activity is somewhat our challenge but everything begins with data and this is provided by this unprecedented tool for Concordia”.
MICROCHIP
Finally, Julio Gesualdi, head of the Municipal Veterinary Department, explained that the census will cover all those equines that are within the municipality of Concordia and that are used for work.
Work will be carried out in each neighborhood through an operation in which each equine will be fitted with a microchip, approved by SENASA, a device through which information will be obtained about both the animal and its owner.
Finally, he recalled that “animal-drawn traction in Concordia is not prohibited, but is limited to an area determined by streets, so we will continue to respect that ordinance, which has been in force since 2018, exactly as it is”.
For more information on the TAS User Registration and Census Program, interested parties can contact 345 508 1414 (messages only).
Present were the Vice Mayor Magdalena Reta de Urquiza; the Undersecretary of Human Development, Roberto Niez; councilors Felipe Sastre, Verónica Del Boca, Emmanuel Godoy, Guillermo Satalía Méndez and the head of the firm KYAS S.A, Carlos Kupervaser; who was in charge of the design of the application where the data generated by the survey will be hosted.
The Mayor Francisco Azcué highlighted the initiative as “a huge step forward, with a series of components that have to do with the interaction with the institutions committed to the city and with civil society,” noting that on Wednesday a meeting was held in which more than a hundred people linked to equines participated, speaking directly with officials of the Municipality of Concordia and the President of the Deliberative Council, Magdalena Reta de Urquiza.
“I want to highlight these actions, which are what we promote in this idea of an open-door Municipality, close to the people, solving problems and acting in the territory,” emphasized Azcué.
Finally, he stated that it is “a program that has a series of stages and one must be clear, these transformations take time because there is also a cultural factor that is very important. You cannot press a button and change reality overnight” and for that “it requires planning and a work method based on knowledge, experience and common sense”.
COMPREHENSIVE WORK
For his part, the Chief of Cabinet, Eduardo Caminal, announced that “the approach will be carried out jointly between different municipal areas. What is sought is to make visible each of the people who currently live from animal-drawn traction as a work tool”.
“Sometimes we see that children work and accompany them in waste collection or in the delivery of sand or stone with carts, but the comprehensive work that the mayor commissioned aims for the children to be in school and to see how we accompany that family,” highlighted the Chief of Cabinet.
Caminal stated that “we are aware that there is a complicated reality in Argentina, in Concordia as well, and we cannot forget that they live from this, so we are going to make every effort to find solutions. We want to enforce the ordinance, with the Urban Guard which is very attentive to that because we have to govern for all the people of Concordia”.
INFORMATION
The Secretary of Human Development, Sebastián Arístide, stressed that the objective of the census is to accompany the families “who have to resort to the use of an animal as a source of work. Knowing who they are, what they do, where they are and why they do what they do, one gets closer to the possible solution that we can provide” from the Municipality.
The program is “medium and long term, where we will seek to change something cultural because the horse is not the best for what they are doing; seeking to technify and modernize the activity is somewhat our challenge but everything begins with data and this is provided by this unprecedented tool for Concordia”.
MICROCHIP
Finally, Julio Gesualdi, head of the Municipal Veterinary Department, explained that the census will cover all those equines that are within the municipality of Concordia and that are used for work.
Work will be carried out in each neighborhood through an operation in which each equine will be fitted with a microchip, approved by SENASA, a device through which information will be obtained about both the animal and its owner.
Finally, he recalled that “animal-drawn traction in Concordia is not prohibited, but is limited to an area determined by streets, so we will continue to respect that ordinance, which has been in force since 2018, exactly as it is”.
For more information on the TAS User Registration and Census Program, interested parties can contact 345 508 1414 (messages only).
Present were the Vice Mayor Magdalena Reta de Urquiza; the Undersecretary of Human Development, Roberto Niez; councilors Felipe Sastre, Verónica Del Boca, Emmanuel Godoy, Guillermo Satalía Méndez and the head of the firm KYAS S.A, Carlos Kupervaser; who was in charge of the design of the application where the data generated by the survey will be hosted.