Camilo Murcia (standing at the lectern), technical director of the Uaesp, during the presentation of the Development Plan before the Cali Council.
- The Cali Public Lighting Recovery and Modernization Plan was one of the main projects that the Special Administrative Unit of Public Services presented to the city Council.
- During this first year of government, the objective is to install 60,000 new LED lighting fixtures. It is also planned to strengthen the lighting of the 39 Assets of Cultural Interest in Cali, going from 900 to more than 1,600 luminaires.
- Compared to the current 102 selective routes for the use of solid waste, the goal is to add 98 and complete the 200 routes.
Santiago de Cali, May 23, 2024
Camilo Murcia Lozano, technical director of the Special Administrative Unit of Public Services (Uaesp), attended the plenary session to which he was summoned by the Council of Cali, in order to present the Development plan that this organization will execute during the administration of Mayor Alejandro Eder.
During his presentation to the councilors, the official detailed the current diagnosis of the Unit and, subsequently, put a magnifying glass on the challenges, indicators and goals of the Unit. Uaesp in the Development Plan ‘Cali Pacific Capital of Colombia’. “The objective is to recover governance through comprehensive care of public spaces for the people”he stressed.
Modernization of public lighting
Murcia Lozano announced that during the first year of government there will be 637 strategic interventions, in order to install 60,000 LED luminaires in the city.
In the first 150 days of 2024, the Uaespin joint work with Municipal Companies of Cali (Emcali), has managed to advance the installation of 5,000 new LED lights in 150 neighborhoods and five townships in the capital of Valle del Cauca.
“In the last eight years in Cali only 58,000 lights were installed, while at the end of this year we will have installed 60,000 new lights. And by the end of the four years of Mayor Eder’s administration, the city’s lighting park will have 120,000 new LED lights, thus guaranteeing coverage in 39 parks, 22 communes and 14 main roads.”project.
In this way, argued the technical director, Cali will be able to position itself among the most important 24-hour product and service cities in the country, facilitating the recovery of nighttime activity through tourism, commerce, sports, culture and health. coexistence in safe public spaces.
And he highlighted that the new lighting park planned for Cali has characteristics aligned with climate change and in tune with the COP16thanks to the energy savings of up to 40% provided by LED lighting.
About the new toilet model
One of the missionary tasks of the Uaesp is to clean and keep public spaces tidy. This generates well-being and security and encourages commitment to civic culture.
Within this framework and with a view to Cali having the best toilet model in Colombia, which is replicable in other cities in the country, a project is built that strengthens sustainability, environmental preservation, climate change and economic and social, all with a great component of citizen culture.
“The waste does not reach the streets alone, nor the rainwater channels, sewers and drains. “This is the first sanitation model that is developed in Colombia to collect, dispose and make good use of waste, closing the cycle as is done in the large cities of the world and boosting economic development for the people of Cali.”said Murcia.
Collection and use of CDW
The purpose of consolidating a model for collecting, using and disposing of debris becomes transcendental for Santiago de Cali. With a view to this objective and for the first time, a Construction and Demolition Waste collection scheme is proposed for the city (RCD), which closes its cycle with the use of them.
“It is a model that promotes employment, energizes the circular and popular economies, reduces costs and promotes the development of the city’s infrastructure and its urban furniture. Faced with this project, we have put ourselves 10 in the perspective of biodiverse Cali, with a view to climate change and the preservation of the environment from the territories”contextualized the director of the Uaesp.
Drinking water in rural areas
One of the main challenges of the Administrative Unit for the four-year period (2024-2027), is to maintain and strengthen the optimal provision of the aqueduct service in the rural area of Cali, where there are 36 drinking water plants and 13 wastewater plants.
To this end, the processes of creating and strengthening the 51 Aqueduct and Sewer Management Boards in the 15 townships of Cali have been advanced, many of these created more than 20 years ago.
The goal during the administration of Mayor Alejandro Eder is to go from 14 current drinking water systems to 25 processes in the townships, a modernization that will benefit more than 33,000 rural inhabitants.
“Each of the indicators that we show before the Cali Council were built by the Cali society and respond to needs felt by all of us. For this reason, the topic of public lighting, garbage collection and the use of Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) was included. It was essential to have worked with our value groups, such as professional recyclers, which we will strengthen in these four years”concluded Camilo Murcia Lozano, technical director of the Special Administrative Unit of Public Services.
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