Jaume Collboni has given several signs in the 25 days that he has been mayor of Barcelona that one of his hallmarks in office will be that of defend order and respect for coexistence. Or at least, hoist that speech as a distinctive rule of the new mandate.
Cleanliness and security, the two main problems of the city as certified by the surveys that the consistory does to the people of Barcelona, have occupied several of the days of the new councilor in this initial period in charge of the city, and this Wednesday he has once again made a gesture to that effect.
early morning muggy
Collboni has visited the workers of the 7 in the morning shift from the cleaning center of the Joan Miró park, in the Eixample, before they left with their vehicles. Joan Miró’s staff, their managers explain, are in charge of cleaning half of the Eixample, up to the Pau Claris area.
Despite the fact that it wasn’t even seven in the morning, the mayor’s visit came in the midst of considerable embarrassment, after a very hot night. “I’ve had two coffees & rdquor ;, Collboni has underlined, who has taken advantage of his time in the center to insist that his government is on the side of order: “We are great defenders of civility & rdquor ;.
The opposition, necessary
The mayor has announced that he intends to increase the sanctions provided for in the civility ordinance, an issue for which he will need support from some of the opposition groups, a support that, he has said, he hopes to achieve.
Collboni has not gone into the detail of this increasebut he has specified that the Deputy Mayor for Security, Albert Batlle, is working on the proposal, whose approval would come at one of the autumn municipal plenary sessions, provided he has enough support to move forward.
At present, the Coexistence Ordinance provides for a range of fines They range from 100 to 3,000 euros. The sanctions mild they are 750 euros maximum; the seriousup to 1,500, and the very serious of up to 3,000. But we will have to see what the casuistry is in each case.
The Plan Orders
Collboni has differentiated two stages. The first is what he calls the Order plan (in Catalan, Endreça plan), which, for example, includes his announcement to triple street cleaning inspections: “We trust that the people of Barcelona will notice it in a few months & rdquor ;.
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In autumn, he has continued, a “second stage” will arrive & rdquor; in which the public will be asked to do their part so that the city has a “clean, dignified and safe” public space: “Barcelona makes a very important economic effort in cleaning and it has to be noticed”. He told the workers: “We have been one of the exemplary cities in terms of cleanliness and we have to recover that.”
In the center of Joan Miró some work 400 people total. They do it in three shifts: from 7 to 13.40; from 2:00 p.m. to 8:40 p.m., and from 11:00 p.m. to 5:40 p.m. And it has 63 vehicles (motorcars, sweepers, among others). Collboni thanked them for their work and urged them to protect themselves from the heat, while the staff tried to get close to the fans installed at points in the area, visiting or holding on to the Barcelonan’s best friend these days, the fan.