128 million euros a year to improve the quality of life in Northern Drenthe and Groningen: it is a lot of money with which the ‘gas extraction region’ can work for a generation. But what will happen to it?
The last measure already came out last fall, but now that real money has been made for it. Every year 36 million euros is available to give children in Northern Drenthe and Groningen more school lessons.
Under the name ‘Time for the future’, schools in the entire area receive at least two extra ‘development hours’. Schools in villages where there are larger learning disadvantages can get up to it up to six more hours.
In addition, the NIJ initial lanes are catching the eye. Every year 500 of those jobs must be created for residents with a distance to the labor market.
Developing those jobs is involved in 10 million euros every year. Housing corporations and welfare organizations, among other things, work together to make workplaces available.
Quartermaker Nijboer strives to issue all the funds that have been taken out for the social agenda, also in the area. Residents also get control over part of that money, for example by coming up with their own initiatives. Ideas that benefit sports and culture, for example, can be financed from a special game for residents’ initiatives. For this, 6.5 million euros has been set aside annually.
In addition, almost 10 million euros is available annually for ‘construction workers, youth workers, neighborhood sports coaches and culture coaches’. “They are working with a joint task: the formation and strengthening of communities of residents and strengthening their own control over life and the environment,” is the text.
In addition to the social agenda, an economic agenda is being worked on. Jakob Klompien is the quartermaster of this. In it, strengthening the ‘broad prosperity’, including the business climate in the region, is the starting point.
The economic agenda will be presented at the beginning of March.