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The Council of Lisbon and the Agency for Administrative Modernisation (AMA) signed on Wednesday, 31 August, a protocol for installation of a new store citizen on the 1st floor of the Market January 31, located in the Picoas area, a few minutes from Praça Duque de Saldanha. The municipality gives the space and will take charge of the rehabilitation works and the expectation is that the space open to the public within a year.
According to the Secretariat of State for Administrative Modernisation, Graça Fonseca, are for now, guaranteed three anchor services: registers and notaries, the Tax and Customs Authority and Social Security. Over the next year, others will be negotiated, particularly with private entities, such as the main providers of electricity services, water and communications or the Via Verde.
The side of the Lisbon Chamber will be there to EMEL and a new Active Ageing Desk, which will concentrate all the services that exist in the city for the older population, such as social, cultural, recreational, seniors universities and others, said Fernando Medina, president of the Chamber in the speech at following the protocol signing. On the other hand, and as the market January 31 is located in Arroios parish council also is there will your service.
This new store replaces that previously existed in the Restauradores and that was closed in 2013 on the initiative of the Executive earlier due to the amount of income, considered too high, and the fact that, according to the then responsible, there are many complaints about the services provided there. “Discipline is” now “an injustice” and “returns to citizens a space that could not have been terminated without being replaced,” said Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, Minister of the Presidency and Administrative Modernization.
Now, the idea is “not only replace what existed, but open up new services,” also announced the ruling. An example is the Institute for Mobility and Transport, who will there “test new offices of personalized service for special services, as does the Ministry of Justice.” Provision is also made room for conducting driving tests.
Investment up 1.7 million euros
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of protocol signing ceremony, Graça Fonseca pointed out that the new store will have a location “very central” to “privileged” access. On the other hand, he said, “the space is very well maintained,” so it will not be necessary background work, it is hoped that within a year you can open to the public.
The rehabilitation works They will be made on the 1st floor of the market, and commercial activities that are already there are all concentrated on the ground floor. The works will be the responsibility of the local authority and, according to Graça Fonseca, should be located “between 1.5 and 1.7 million.” In return, the state will pay an income after the camera during a period which, according to it was defined in the protocol, will be 50 years.
Fernando Medina explained that this option for the market to install the citizen Store is enters a recovery strategy of these spaces, in which the camera has been focusing. “This decision will allow to jump into our rehabilitation program for municipal markets,” he said.
President of the local authority believes that “the influx of people will be very significant,” and that this also will bring a boosting the own local businesses. “The purpose of the citizen card, people will be able to do their daily little shopping,” he joked. Access to the store, moreover, will make up by the market itself, but there will also be a direct entrance from the Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo.
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