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| The social aid fund increases its budget by 400% | The Plenary of Archena approved this morning the Municipal Emergency Fight Plan that includes more than 70 measures for the prevention, security and reactivation of all sectors of the population against COVID-19. This Emergency Plan mainly comprises 4 axes.

The toilet that is intended to prevent the advance of the pandemic in a preventive way.

The social one to help the most vulnerable families and people and the labor and economic one to help the commercial, business and hospitality sectors of the municipality affected by the health crisis caused by the coronavirus. The Mayor Patricia Fernández has highlighted the main measures that the City Council has implemented that are included in this emergency plan, such as the free distribution to the entire population of 70,000 masks, the 100% discount on the rate of water and garbage while the state of alarm and the occupation of public roads lasts for the whole year 2020 to the hospitality sector. Industrial aid and the construction sector are also included in said plan with significant bonuses to another sector with which the local administration is also going to dump throughout the year 2020. The reactivation plan approved this morning by the full council also includes a psychological recovery program with outdoor activities and the creation of a comprehensive Municipal Volunteer Program, among others. Another important point of this plenary session has been the approval of the credit modification to attend extraordinary expenses generated by this crisis.

"We have increased by 400% the amount allocated to social aid, € 600,000 to alleviate the damage caused by this pandemic in our municipality," the First Authority declared in its intervention. Patricia Fernández has stated that "we will still incorporate more measures to continue reactivating the local economy in the coming weeks." "We have been working on this plan for a long time, since the beginning of the crisis, with the sole objective of helping the entire population."

Source: Ayuntamiento de Archena