The Palma City Council has taken a new step towards the transformation of Plaça Major, aiming to open the underground galleries and turn them into an open agora. The Cort Governing Board approved this Wednesday the contracting file for the drafting service of the integral works project that will develop the ‘Àgora’ preliminary project, aimed at improving Plaça Major, its lower floors, and its surroundings.The contract also includes the technical direction of the works and will be processed by means of a negotiated procedure without prior publication. The base tender budget is 1.4 million euros (VAT included) and the action will be partially financed with funds from the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS).

The Palma City Council has taken a new step in the transformation of the Plaza Mayor, aiming to open the underground galleries and turn them into an open agora. The Cort Governing Board approved this Wednesday the tender for the drafting service of the integral construction project that will develop the 'Agora' preliminary project, aimed at improving the Plaza Mayor, its lower floors, and its surroundings.The contract also includes the technical direction of the works and will be processed through a negotiated procedure without prior publication. The base tender budget is 1.4 million euros (VAT included) and the action will be partially financed with funds from the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS).

The mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, has initiated a reorganization of the municipal organizational chart that entails significant changes in the government structure. The Civil Service department, responsible for managing City Hall personnel, will no longer report to the department headed by Mercedes Celeste and will instead be under the responsibility of Llorenç Bauzá.

Palma City Council is pushing forward with its plan to reorganize the Local Police, despite the discontent of police unions, which are continuing their planned demonstrations, boycotts, and protests. This was confirmed on Tuesday by the spokesperson for the governing board and Councilor for Public Service, Mercedes Celeste, who acknowledged that the process is unfolding in a complex context. "We are moving forward with the negotiations, but it is a complicated situation," she admitted.

The conflict between Palma City Council and the Local Police over the delay in implementing the urban planning plan has resurfaced this Thursday at the municipal plenary session With a strong intervention from Socialist councilwoman Angélica Pastor, who denounced a "flagrant violation of labor rights" and an "arbitrary" management of the officers' mobility by the PP governing team, with the "complicit silence" of Vox. Meanwhile, around one hundred officers They have gathered in Cort Squarefor denouncing the repeated failure of the mayor, Jaime Martínez, to keep his promises.

The governing board of the Cort (City of Palma) approved this Wednesday the specifications that will govern the remodeling and operation of the Levante Municipal Market, which has been fully managed by Palma City Council since 1986. The bidding process will be carried out through a concession for the overall operation of the market, with municipal ownership of the facility remaining at all times for a period of time.