It is nothing new that municipal management is arduous, paid or grateful work, generally, and that the decisions that a mayor makes are not always well received, understood or shared. One last example has happened in the City Council of Rábanos, formed by the peoples of Rábanos, Alarcia, Villamudria and Haedillo, the latter already uninhabited. The mayor of the municipality is also the pediatric mayor of Alarcia, and with the support of another councilor has initiated the procedures for the capital to transfer from radishes to Alarcia. A change with which they do not agree in the rest of the localities, as could be verified in a concentration held yesterday in radishes and that comes to deny the consensus that had allegedly motivated the request of that municipal move.
Neighbors, descendants and supporters of Radish and Villamudria yesterday had the support of others from Santa Cruz del Valle, Valmala, Pradoluengo, Fresneda de la Sierra or Tosantos to raise their voice and ask that the administrative headquarters continue in Rabies. ‘The City Council stays in Radish’, ‘Radish does not give up’, ‘Rábanos in struggle’ or ‘radishes does not want to cease to be a town’ are some of the claims that could be read.
The news of that decision, published on May 1 in Diario de Burgos, caught many of them by surprise. “We want the mayor to apologize, also to his own corporation, since he says that the other two councilors supported the measure and is not true,” said Sandra Lázaro. His words corroborated Emiliano Mata, of Villamudria and councilor in the City of Rábanos. “I told the secretary that I was not going to sign because I did not agree and told me that it did not matter because with two they were already a majority,” said the man, who made up the Rábanos Corporation with another councilor and the mayor, both from Alarcia.
In the publication, Guillermo OCA, the mayor of the municipality, motivated the change of administrative headquarters to practical operation issues regarding the municipal management. The lack of the Internet in radishes, for example, led the secretary to be installed a few months ago in Alarcia. Sandra Lázaro and her cousin Sergio, descendants of radishes, said after the concentration that if there are those reasons to cause change what you have to do is put a solution (…).
(More information, in the printed edition of Diario de Burgos this Monday or here)
