With Eric van Daal, Venray will have an alderman from outside the municipality. Van Daal becomes alderman on behalf of the largest party Venray Lokaal.
He was previously an alderman for 7.5 years in the former Brabant municipality of Mill en Sint Hubert. On 1 January of this year, it was merged into the new amalgamated municipality of Land van Cuijk. There, Van Daal was now a councilor for the Team Lokaal party. Of course he stops.
New
The three other aldermen are also new. Wim de Schryver becomes alderman on behalf of the VVD. He was the party’s new leader in the elections in March. During the previous term of office he was a member of the Citizens’ Committee.
Party leader Martin Leenders takes a seat in the new council of B&W on behalf of Collaboration Venray. He has been a councilor since 2002 and has been party chairman since 2010.
finish school year
Former party leader Daan Janssen represents D66. He has been on the city council since 2014. Before the elections, he had already been put forward as a candidate for alderman for D66. He will only take up his position in September because as a teacher at Raayland College he first wants to finish the school year.
Temporary fifth alderman
It had already been announced earlier that the current D66 alderman Jan Jenneskens will temporarily stay on as fifth alderman, because the three aldermen from Venray themselves have no administrative experience. The agreement is that the situation will be reviewed after one year.
coalition agreement
The new aldermen’s team will be installed on Tuesday during a council meeting. Then the coalition agreement will also be discussed. It is titled Building on Trust. Residential construction plays an important role in this with the aim of ensuring that everyone can buy or rent a suitable home.
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In concrete terms, this involves looking at the repurposing of vacant buildings or new housing locations. The new coalition wants to make ‘hard but realistic’ agreements about social housing with housing corporation Wonen Limburg and other parties.
Speed
Other points include a new poverty and debt policy with special attention to children growing up in poverty and extra attention to the housing of migrant workers. The new council must urgently come up with proposals for large-scale housing.
Airbase reactivation
The Venray coalition will also continue to do everything it can to prevent the reactivation of De Peel airbase in Vredepeel. To this end, an investigation into the consequences of opening is announced.
Agriculture and nature
In the agricultural field, the aim is to improve the quality of the environment. Scent is seen as an important button that the municipality can turn. Nor do the four coalition parties want to sacrifice nature for industrialization.
According to them, this policy still offers individual companies the opportunity to grow. The long-term goal is circular agriculture in which manure processing plays an important role.
Business parks
In the economic field, the focus is on small-scale expansion of the acreage of industrial estates, preferably spread over several locations. The aim is also to collaborate with Brainport Eindhoven, Helmond and the German border region.
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New governance culture
Venray Local, Collaboration Venray, VVD and D66 state in the coalition agreement that they also want to continue on the chosen path of building a new administrative culture. In this context, an open and transparent management style is mentioned, involving residents more in policy and improving services.
The new coalition can count on 17 of the 27 seats in the city council. The opposition is formed by CDA, SP, PvdA and GroenLinks. The three small left-wing parties negotiated a new coalition. But when their demand to jointly supply an alderman was rejected by the other parties, they dropped out.
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