Months of work and preparation, presentation and evaluation of projects, quantifications … and a week of voting. Barcelona already has the list of those of its second call for participatory budgets, in which 30 million euros were at stake, about three million for each of the three districts. The most voted proposal has been the installation of a roof in the stands of the football field, in Horta-Guinardó: it has swept 4,111 votes. In an imaginary podium, second place has been to facilitate diversity in the libraries of Sants-Montjuïc (2,608 votes), and the third to increase the shadow and green before the stops of Fabra I Metro and Sant Andreu Arenal (2,396 supports), in Sant Andreu. Very close, the project of a self -managed young people in the neighborhood of the Sagrada Familia, in the Eixample, with 2,368 votes has remained.
He has celebrated the increase in participation with respect to, with almost 49,000 people (39,000 in the previous one) who have cast 211,800 votes (several projects could be voted, provided that one of them outside the district in which the voter was registered, from 16 years). The councilor has highlighted the “great mobilization of driving groups”, among which there were entities, associations, associations of families or sports clubs.
In the case of FC Martinenc, a centenary club of the city, has four sections (soccer, basketball, skates and judo hockey) that add more than 1,500 base athletes. Rabell also stressed that the figures and details of the participation “allow a photo of the city, its desires and its reality.” The majority of voting participants have been women, they said. And the results also show in which neighborhoods it costs more than the citizens participate, and act accordingly, he said.
Beyond the Marquesina of Martinenc, the libraries of Sants-Montjuïc, the youthful casal of Sagrada Familia or the shadow in Sant Andreu, the rest of the winning projects, for districts have been the ones that follow: plant 100 trees in 100 empty alcorques of Ciutat Vella; Improve lighting in the old town of Les Corts, improve school environments in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi; the costume of the European field in Gràcia; Improve night lighting in Fabra I Puig and the Plaza de Virrei Amat in Nou Barris, and update the Clot Park in Sant Martí.
By categories, 21.8% of winning projects are linked to schools, 19.7% to the transformation of streets, 15.8% of urban green contribution, 14.5% to urban facilities and furniture; and 11.8% to recreational and sports areas.
Asked about the percentage of projects executed in the previous period and for which they have not been materialized, Rabell has claimed that 73% of the initiatives voted in 2021 have been completed. And there has been the “interesting” proposals that have not passed the cut will be included in the road map of other plans and departments of the City Council, such as the neighborhood plan. On the last edition, in which they triumphed, one of the controversies was that one of the proposed proposals was not executed: the construction of. Rabell has assured that it will be built in the future, because it is included in the plan of new cyclable roads in Barcelona, and that it did not materialize while waiting for the reform of the Rambla to end. The councilor explained that from now on, informative sessions will be convened for the “great impact” projects, to inform of its affectation and monitor the execution of the selected investments. The start of works Rabell has placed it “before the end of the mandate.”
