The corporation will no longer make any more direct financial contribution to Camprabassa, the company that manages the ecopark.
The municipality of Sant Julià de Lòria will no longer make any more direct financial contribution to Naturland. According to the financial plan of Camprabassa, the company that manages the Lauredian eco-park, this year the corporation headed by Cerni Cairat was to inject 300,000 euros and, in 2025, 200,000 euros, while from 2026 the road map foresaw the end of capital contributions.
El comú, tot i això, no abandona Naturland. Not only because the decision has been taken with the consent of the management. Also because, in return, the corporation will guarantee new credit lines of the ecopark for current and investment expenses. Specifically, the common good will guarantee the payment of 1.5 million euros in loans to financial institutions. Of this amount, half a million corresponds to the increase in the credit line for current expenditure and the remaining one million to the formalisation of a credit line for investment expenditure. Only the capital coming from the credit available to the community and exceeding the amount of Camprabassa’s own funds will be included in the community’s indebtedness.
According to Cairat, the main benefit of the decision to stop direct financial contributions to Naturland is that ‘there will no longer be any cash transfers’ to Camprabassa. ‘If the viability plan is completed, this would have to be the last intervention’ of the Lauredian community, said the leader. The councillor of the minority, Josep Majoral, on the other hand, qualified the words of the councillor: ‘It is false that the community does not contribute money when it guarantees the credits’. However, the UL+DA group supported this point.
In today’s council session, the budget for 2024 was also approved. The common foresees to end the year with a balance between income and expenditure of 24.2 million euros. Of this, some 9.4 million corresponds to investments. The unprecedented figure is explained by the fact that more than half of the amount will be used to pay for the reconstruction work on the Lauredià Cultural and Conference Centre, which was destroyed in the fire of 9 November 2022.
The other most important investments, in decreasing order, are the repair of the Fontaneda water mains network (350,000 euros), the widening and rectification of the Rabassa road (300,000 euros), the remodelling of the voravies around the parish (180. 000 euros), the repair of the entrance gutter to the Font de Joans catchment-dipòsit (168,500 euros), the reconstruction of the Caborreu catchment (150,000 euros), the adaptation of the Aixirivall car park (150,000 euros) and the installation of the air-conditioning system in the gymnasium of the sports centre (150,000 euros).
The minority group abstained from voting on both the budget and the budget framework for the period 2024-2027. Majoral warned that the trend towards an increase in fixed expenditure and, at the same time, a reduction in the amount allocated to investment compromises the council’s ability to promote projects that benefit the parish. ‘The relationship between fixed expenditure and investment should be reversed,’ he said.
The session also saw the approval of the ordinance regulating the time restriction on the circulation of earth-moving lorries on secondary roads, and the limiting of public or private earth-moving lorries on secondary roads. In this sense, lorries will be able to circulate along the Rabassa road between two quarters of midday in the morning and two quarters of five in the afternoon. This time restriction is in addition to the one in force since February, when the same council prohibited lorries from outside the parish from entering La Rabassa.
During the council meeting, Cairat revealed that private developers are planning to build a logistics and industrial park in La Riberola, next to the parish’s car park for motorhomes. The work could begin this year, as the building permits are in the process of being issued by the council. Thanks to the compulsory cession, the corporation will obtain a plot of land of about 900 square metres that will house communal facilities such as the deixalleria and magatzems. The partial plan to develop the area was approved in the previous term of office.
