The Altafulla City Council has put out to public tender the drafting of the basic and executive project for the future elderly residence, planned for the grounds of La Cabana, behind the Municipal Pool. The deadline to submit candidacies will be open until May 27.
The action contemplates a residence with 45 places in a first phase, expandable to 60 in a later intervention. The facility will be built with a model organized into coexistence units and will follow the system of Atenció Centrada en la Persona, a formula designed to adapt care to the needs of each user.
An outfit foreseen for the next mandate
The mayor of Altafulla, Jordi Molinera, has framed the tender within the will to leave the projects defined during this term and to know with precision both the final design and its cost. He has also ruled out an imminent start of the works in the final stretch of the current term.
"The objective is to have the projects this term and to know how everything will be and how much it will cost. We will not see the first stone three months before the elections, it would be irresponsible" - Jordi Molinera, mayor of Altafulla
The municipal forecast places the start of construction in 2027 and estimates a duration of 15 months for the works. The building will have a total built area of 2,838 square meters, distributed between a ground floor and two upper floors.
A far-reaching investment for the municipality
The council estimates that the drafting of the project will be around 300,000 euros. The execution of the residence is around 2.5 million euros, a figure that will force the City Council to seek economic support from other administrations.
"Then will come the work of the City Council to seek funding. We will have economic resources, but not all of them. We will chip stone in all administrations so that there are no excuses to carry out what will be the biggest project Altafulla has done in many years and which has a very broad consensus" - Jordi Molinera, mayor of Altafulla
From the local government, this step is presented as the definitive advance of a long-awaited project in the municipality. Councilwoman Inma Morales has defended that, despite the difficulties arisen until now, the residence now enters into a concrete phase of development.
"There have been several impediments but the residence is already moving forward and I would like people to see that it is not just paper, that it is progressing and that we will fight for it to see the light in the next mandate" - Inma Morales, councilwoman of Altafulla
The Altafulla elderly residence aspires to become the largest work promoted by the municipality in many years, with a project that the local government considers widely consensual and that now takes a key administrative step to define its real scope and face the search for funding.