The City Sewer and Joint Venture Company formed by the mercantile acts, and Environment Services, SL and Acciona Urban, SL, have finally formalized the "contract of public service management of municipal solid waste collection, street cleaning and maintenance and conservation of green areas in the municipality of Alcantarilla ".
Services garbage collection, street cleaning and maintenance of parks and gardens, lending itself came separately by different companies until, once the previous contracts were already defeated, the council decided to tender them together, to award contracts to a single contractor and obtain significant savings for municipal funds.
Thus, the new contract with the joint venture represents an annual savings of 498,284.81 euros, or what is the same 41523.73 per month (a reduction of 14.4% compared to revenues coming today paying the City for those services).
It must be remembered that the signing of the contract had not been carried out previously, because action was brought against the award of the contract before the Central Administrative Tribunal of Contractual Appeals, which decided to annul the contract award.
However, the City Sewer filed an appeal to the High Court against the decision of the concerned administrative body requesting the interim suspension of the same.
Thus, by Order dated June 10, issued by the Court, it accedes to the request of the City, which has meant that today has proceeded to finalize the contract already awarded previously.
Contract signed by our mayor, Joaquin Buendia and the representative of such joint venture, José Ramón Quirantes.
As for the staff, the former is fully subrogated and the new concessionaire will increase by seven new workers 51-58.
The streets of Sewell also see a major makeover with new collection vehicles, both of RSU, as selective, which means a total change from the previous fleet, with 3 Collector Truck Side Load 21m3 1 Collector Truck Load rear 18 m3 1 2 Truck Piaggio Collector m3 1 Satellite Equipment Container 1 Salt Spreaders Truck Load Side 1 Flatbed Truck 3,500 kg.
Inspection and Van.
As for MSW collection containers, today we have 700 containers from 800 to 1000 liters of rear cargo.
Once the service has begun will proceed to exchange them for 480 containers of lateral load of 2,200 or 3,200 liters having the same collection points but giving less nuisance to neighbors by volume will now have new and lower transfer that you have the new containers.
In terms of recycling containers have side-loading 80 paper and cardboard containers and 80 containers of lateral load, as many as we ecolimpios points.
In the area of ​​mechanics and vehicles in the street cleaning service means we will have to replace all these means, where the concessionaire company understands that the role of the worker in this change will be fundamental.
Mechanical means that we will be as follows: 2 Sweepers 2000 Pole Vault water;
1 sweeper 5m3 of Hidrosweep;
1 Cuba flushing;
1 Van Hidrolimpiador;
1 quitachicles machine;
1 flusher;
2 vehicles Plaggio and a scrubbing sidewalks.
The fact also that the new containers are of greater volume and not have wheels, will entail that they not be left in unsuitable places or the citizens themselves can perform any movement with them, with less noise when mobilized.
It is important because the selective collection, the recycling containers such as plastic containers yellow and blue will be gathered up 6 days a week, as previously done 4. As important as the collection of Municipal Solid Waste continue maintaining 7 days a week.
And that among the improvements of the new concession provides for the collection of paper / cardboard from shops, 2-day pass for 5 days of collection.
As for street cleaning, it will be developed in 10 areas articulated by the different neighborhoods.
Which will be cleaning 6 times a week and are incorporated improvement, team work on Sundays and in the evenings cleaning, fixing mainly in trade, main streets and avenues and squares, parks and gardens areas.
Another important development is enhancing daily cleaning with water, given our climate, warm and dry.
Thereby eliminating the maximum cleaning using blowers.
As for the improvements that the concession company offers on the MSW collection and street cleaning, we will have the supply and installation of 80 informational muppis clean at all points (cardboard, cans and glass) information panels collection frequency.
Pipicanes building, the first one in the Garden Aviation, along with a dog park.
And after verifying the effectiveness of the acts ACCIONA UTE agrees to place one year at locations agreed with the technical service responsible.
Guided tours for promoting recycling in Ecoparque, targeting different groups in the municipality and colleges, housewives, business association, along with others who consider the City Council visits.
Trucks placement information screens, with the sentences to include public awareness.
Intensive cleaning in different neighborhoods of the town four times a year (before the beginning of Holy Week, the May Festival in September around the holidays and Christmas), regardless of the daily routine cleaning.
Maintenance and Conservation Green Zones, the staff it needs to carry out activities will increase, quickly, at key moments of greater intensity, such as in pruning, time of holidays, etc.
It will rejuvenate the whole gardening and all irrigation systems in the various gardens.
And in a novel way, as are already under way in other municipalities, since everything will be controlled through a computerized management system, where everything will be geo-referenced and where the neighbors not only operarios- themselves can report incidents as in furniture, fountains, lakes, playgrounds, containers, etc.
But this function will also be vital for the company as this computerized system, as indicábamos- operators have basically through a PDA or Smartphone, which move information to a web platform accessible from PC receiver records or incidents taken and achieve significant progress in terms of improving services in our gardens, and a major program of Citizen.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla