Ourique: Municipality accepts the decentralization of government powers.
The Municipality of Ourique will accept decentralization of powers mentioned in the instruments adopted by the Government in the days 27, 28 and 29 of novenbro, that consigns skills in nine flights from intervention.
In a press release, the Municipality of Ourique, chaired by Marcelo Guerreiro, states that: “There is much to defend the Regionalization and the creation of the Lower Alentejo Region. There is much to argue that the powers exercised by the Central Power, from Lisbon, They must have a proximity-building and harmony to the region, the populations and territories. There is much the Municipality of Ourique placed side construction solutions, instead of merely underlined the problems”.
The Municipality of Ourique realizes decentralized competences in education- not teaching-staff, transferred by the government to the municipal level since 2008.
The skills of the decentralization process and the Central Power means for Local Government is not a regionalization, but it is an approach thrust of the exercise of public service skills to people and territories.
Initially, They are concerned about the skills Beaches (Decree-Law 97/2018 of 27 November), Modalities of the Allied Fortune Games and Gambling (DL 98/2018, of 27 November), tourism promotion (DL 99/2018, of 28 November), the Roads (DL 100/2018, of 28 November), the Justice (DL 101/2018 of 29 November), Civil-Fire Protection (DL 103/2018, of 29 November), the structures of Citizen Assistance (DL 104/2018, of 29 November), the Public Real Estate (DL 106/2018, of 29 November) and the Public Parking (DL 107/2018, of 29 November).
The Municipality of Ourique will accept the decentralization mentioned skills, six reasons:
1. No essencial permitem uma administração de recursos e de serviços mais próxima dos cidadãos e dos territórios;
2. Parte é constituÃda por matérias que já são assumidas pelo municÃpio, by protocols celebration with Management, as with the Permanent Intervention Teams of volunteers Fire Ourique;
3. Parte são competências que, being exerted by the Authorities, ensure a faster response, in tune with reality and sense of local interest.
4. Parte são competências que, still not being applied in the territory of Ourique, They are part of an integrated view of management of communities and territories and local development.
5. Naturally, in that imply adaptations of municipal services to fulfill new skills, the municipality shall take appropriate initiatives, as implying expense increase it will have to be contemplated by central transfers to the Local Government.
6. The municipality of Ourique, aware of the importance of balancing accounts and good management, always positioned itself as available to work with the Central Power to achieve solutions and answers to Ouriquenses and to the territory of Ourique. Bearing in mind the reading and evaluation of Ourique interests and Ouriquenses, the Municipality of Ourique take a further position on the decentralization of power and the respective media in areas such as education, the health, policing, food security, animal safety, culture or villages, when the diplomas and the underlying financial amounts are consolidated.
