This week, work began on paving and lighting the D7 road, which begins at Avenida Diputación and ends at a street in the Benicolada neighbourhood. The opening of this road is crucial for the start of work on the pedestrian bridge over the N332, as it will provide access for residents of the area whose current access will disappear with the construction of the pedestrian bridge.
The City Council opens on Monday the deadline to apply for the "Paréntesis" aid of the Plan Resiste.
Calp has already approved the bases that will govern the granting of "Paréntesis" aid under the Plan Resiste promoted by the Generalitat Valenciana. The plan provides 1,545,222 euros in Calp for the self-employed and micro-enterprises affected by the Covid. To this end, the City Council is providing 231,783 euros, which is 15% of the total and complements the 62.5% provided by the Generalitat and 22.5% contributed by the Provincial Council.
The Archaeological Museum of the Provincial Government of Alicante has launched a new online education program to teach schoolchildren about the findings of the Pobla de Ifach archaeological site. Through the project, the MARQ Foundation and the Department of Culture of the Provincial Government of Alicante have taken another step in the process of digitalizing the museum's educational resources.
Since March 2020 and until December of the same year, Calp Municipality has granted €282,736 in direct emergency social assistance, which benefited 1,101 Calp families, and in the entire month of January, a total of €16,600 in emergency social assistance was granted.
The City Council and ONCE (organization for the blind) cooperate in the campaign against loneliness.
Calp and ONCE have agreed to cooperate in the "Campaign against Loneliness", a voluntary action to support and accompany visually impaired people in times of pandemic. The campaign stretches from La Vila to Dénia; in this area ONCE has 370 members with total blindness or with 0.01% severe blindness, a sector of the population that is particularly vulnerable in these times.
The Calp is currently registering a total of 67 active cases of gender-based violence. This number was announced in the Coordination Commission of Gender Violence, which met per Skype this morning.
The meeting was attended by the mayor of Calp, Ana Sala, and representatives of the Unit against Violence against Women of the government sub-delegation, the Dénia Gender Violence Office, the Guardia Civil, the local police, the Dénia Women's Centre, the Office of Attention to Victims and the Equality Department of the Calp City Council.
Yesterday's plenary session of Calp City Council debated the motion of the socialist councillor group calling for an investigation into the administration of vaccinations in Calp. Although the proposal was unsuccessful, the mayor bluntly pointed out that no member of the government had been vaccinated, except councillor Ana Perles, who works at the Calp Health Centre and is one of the health workers subjected to this first vaccination.
Calp City Council and the contracted company Pavapark reached an agreement this morning to partially remove the regulated parking service on public roads in the blue zone from 5pm to 8pm. Thus, as of this afternoon, the blue zone service will only be effective from 9am to 2pm.
For the past few weeks, the city and the company have been studying various formulas to exempt citizens from paying the ORA after the new restrictions against COVID-19 came into effect on Thursday, 21 January, stipulating the closure of shops from 6pm followed by the closure of the public house.