Next year the Municipality of Villa Nueva plans to take out a$14 million loan to build a complex of offices, two bridges and a central collector.
Authorities at the municipality of Villa Nueva will hire a company to carry out the structuring of the loan to be able to dispose of the funds and start work next year.
In Panama, a concession is to be granted for the design, financing, construction, operation and maintenance of a new site for the Municipality of La Chorrera.
Panama Government Purchase 2017-5-75-0-15-LV-002552:
"The new facilities will consist of 3 levels of parking lots. Above these parking lots two towers will be developed: Tower A, with 4 floors, will house the offices of the Municipal Palace and Tower B, with 10 floors, is where all public institutions in the province will be installed.
A gallery in the eastern market, improvements to the cathedral of Managua and a multipurpose gym are some of the works that will be built with a loan approved by the Mayor of the capital.
In addition, improvements will be made to the Divina Misericordia natural park and small works carried out such as a park in the construction project for the new national stadium.
Forty municipalities will be integrated into a single technology platform that will allow, among other things, for public service procedures to be carried out online.
From a statement issued by the Ministry of Economy and Finance:
An integrated accounting and administrative financial system that will substantially improve the services currently provided by 40 municipalities, will be implemented through the adoption by the (CENA) National Economic Council of a request for contract B / 990,852.10 to the National Authority for Government Innovation (AIG).
The private sector is proposing new municipal legislation in order to unify criteria and procedures and allow for a "reduction in discretion regarding fees and licenses."
The proposal to streamline municipal management is part of an initiative made up of 50 measures to improve the country's competitiveness, submitted by the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (COSEP) to the Nicaraguan government.
With an $18 million loan the mayor of Panama will buy 11 farms in the district in order to construct a city park, a cemetery and municipal offices in 2017.
From a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry of Panama:
With 21 votes in favor and 1 against, the City Council gave approval in Ordinary Session No.39, on Tuesday 27 September, for the Mayor of Panama to take out with the National Bank of Panama, a loan in the amount of 18 million for the purchase of 11 farms located in the District of Panama.
Fines for obstructing traffic on sidewalks with tables, chairs, vehicles or service counters without municipal authorization range from $500 to $2,000.
From a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry of Panama:
The Municipality of Panama has established rules on the use of public space for parking through Municipal Agreement No. 24 of January 19, 2016 published in the Official Newspaper, La Gaceta 27988-A.
The regulation which has been long-awaited because it would lead to dozens of investment projects, has been challenged in the Constitutional Court.
The "preventing" machine still works very effectively in Costa Rica, this time to stop huge investments that would help solve the problem of waste disposal afflicting municipalities.
Environmental viability proceedings for energy projects using trash as a fuel source have been suspended after a constitutional complaint was filed against the regulation governing the incineration of waste.
Constructora Pirenaica won the contract to build Parque Municipal del Norte, in the community of San Vicente No. 1, between the villages of Chilibre and Ancon.
The Municipality of Panama awarded the contract for $16,940,542.50 for preliminary studies, completion and adoption of the draft, development and approval of construction plans, technical specifications and delivery and construction of Parque Municipal del Norte, Phase 1.
A year into its tenure, the government of Costa Rica has announced the formation of a joint committee to study a national plan for recycling and recovery of waste.
EDITORIAL:
In another grim example of the difficulties faced by rulers in Costa Rica to make executive decisions on public works, existing plans - which are currently on hold, and will probably disappear - for investment in the waste management and recycling sector, including generating power from them, due to the fact that the current government has decided to start from scratch with the formation of a committee to "develop strategies" on the topic. As if there were not already enough information on his issue, and as if the respective participants and those responsible had not expressed themselves sufficiently in this respect. It is the same case with the commission on energy introduced by this government.
Businesses have denounced the arbitrariness with which municipalities are establishing rates and conditions for granting permits for setting up telecommunication towers.
The Chamber of Information and Communication Technology (Infocom) claims that the municipalities, citing their legal autonomy, are establishing their own conditions when companies request permits to install telecom towers in different areas.
Costa Rica's Administrative Court has ruled against several municipalities for excessive restrictions on installing mobile communication towers.
The companies Alta Vista Towers S. A., Costa Pacífico Torres Ltda and Claro Costa Rica sued the emunicipalities of Santa Ana and Montes de Oca because of prohibitions on the placement of cell towers.
These companies argued before the Dispute Tribunal "that provisions related to height, location and distance make it almost impossible to install antennas", reported Nacion.com.
A proposal has been made that the municipalities seek financing by securitizing their income, requiring information on their financial capacity.
From a press release issued by the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador:
The Finance Commission today launched the consultation phase for a draft amendment to the Law on Securitization of Assets, to hear the views and comments of the leaders of the Superintendency of the Financial System (SSF), the Central Reserve Bank (BCR), the Stock Exchange of El Salvador (BVES), and institutions specializing in asset securitization HENCORP Valores, S.A. and RICORP Titularizadora S. A.
The construction of the new headquarters building of the municipality Colon has been awarded to the sole bidder for $16.5 million.
Prensa.com reports that "for an amount of $16.5 million the award was made to the only firm who submitted a bid, Omega Engineering Inc., for the planned construction of the new city hall in the province of Colon."
According to Damaso Garcia, mayor of the district, the project will include the study, design, demolition of the old headquarters, building, equipping and delivery of final plans.
Unnecessary administrative burdens, particularly municipal procedures which are cumbersome and capricious, are harming the business climate in El Salvador.
The World Bank emphasized that El Salvador has to simplify procedures for obtaining permits to install new businesses and improve transparency of information, be more efficient and achieve, as soon as possible, that all the formalities for opening businesses can be performed electronically, reported Elmundo.com.sv.
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