Néstor Grindetti spoke about the recovered co-participation and raised a claim to the Nation
He also took the opportunity to ensure that The City “recovered” part of its autonomy with the reimbursement of a section of the co-participating funds, the transfer of bus lines and the prison service.
“After 4 years we managed to recover the co-participation funds and made progress in terms of autonomy, we are reaching an agreement for the transfer of the Penitentiary Service and we already have the regulatory power of the 31 bus lines,” he noted.
In any case, he questioned the national government for failing to comply with the Supreme Court ruling regarding the remaining balance of the co-participating resources. “More than 550 days after said ruling, the City received 0 pesos. At today’s values, the City is failing to receive 88 billion pesos per month,” he denounced. Grindetti and added: “6 months have passed since the new Government: we have been firmly asking that the ruling be respected.”
He then highlighted the management’s commitment to restoring order. “Since the beginning of the administration we have not allowed camping and we built around 500 ranchadas between January and May,” he said, through police operations. “Sometimes, governing means making uncomfortable decisions,” he said.
“Our way of governing is clear: firmness to hold the necessary discussions, dialogue to build concrete solutions and efficiency to offer better services while taking care of resources. We will continue working to put the people of Buenos Aires at the center of our attention and deepen the changes so that Buenos Aires continues to be a model city,” he insisted.
Economic development, education and health
Likewise, he stressed that The government’s policy is to be responsible with the use of resources and do it transparently. Along these lines, he valued the dynamics that existed in the Legislature during the Budget debate, where all the members of the cabinet attended. By 2025, the City projects a surplus result of 10 billionwith Education as the area with the most participation within the planned spending plan, with 20%, and Security will have the largest budget in its history.
In relation to economic development, Grindetti maintained that “we are a management that believes that the State has to accompany the private sector so that more people are encouraged to invest. Innovation and technological development are the hallmark of the City of Buenos Aires. We want to go for more and for Buenos Aires to be the regional capital of innovation and for more and more companies to choose it to invest.” Along this path, the Innovation Park signed 53 contracts with scientific-technological startups and 14 agreements, in addition to the implementation of the first Electric Bus.
In educational matters, Grindetti highlighted that “in the City, at the beginning of this school year, 4 out of every 10 3rd year students did not achieve the expected knowledge in Language and 6 out of every 10 3rd year students did not do so in Mathematics. Although the indicators are above the national average, we have the obligation to find solutions. For this reason, through BA Learn, we are changing education in the classrooms, focusing on the learning of these two subjects that are part of the core knowledge.”
Likewise, Jorge Macri’s announcement about the arrival of the TUMO centers, a teaching program with 14 locations around the world, whose first center will be installed in the South and announced that in 2025 it will work with AI in primary schools that have an extended day. And he also highlighted the 29,000 people who enrolled in Talento Tech courses to strengthen their professional development and that during 2024, 681 building renovation works were carried out in schools.
In relation to the dynamics in the classrooms, during his presentation Grindetti stressed that they prohibited the use of cell phones at the initial and primary level and was restricted to only pedagogical purposes in secondary schools. Just two months after applying this measure, the results are overwhelming: 6 out of 10 kids pay more attention and 40% talk more with their classmates. In this sense, access to online betting and illegal betting sites was also blocked. “Minors cannot bet,” stated the Chief of Staff and added that a prosecutor’s office specialized in Games of Chance was created.
Regarding older adults, he explained that the City of Buenos Aires is the city with the largest population in this sector -23% of the population- making it an axis of management.
In matters of Health, The Chief of Staff said that They assigned 80 thousand monthly shifts throughout the entire network of health providers in the City and it They granted 23% more shifts compared to last year. He also highlighted the progress in digitization of medical history, which includes laboratory analyzes and the implementation of telemedicine.
New works in the city
In terms of Human Development, Grindetti pointed out that more 42 thousand homes receive assistance with the “Buenos Aires citizenship” program that requires children to go to schoolhealth checks and job training are carried out, there are 34 mobile units dedicated to assisting the vulnerable population on the streets that travel through all the neighborhoods of the city, more than 37 thousand people are assisted in the 47 social inclusion centers differentiated by problem ( disability, Mental health, families, older adults, etc.) and there are 20 Comprehensive Centers for women who suffer gender violence with a comprehensive approach, psychological assistance, guidance and legal sponsorship.
In turn, Grindetti referred to the transformation of the district by announcing that they are “working on a reconfiguration of the Dellepiane Highway that will benefit around 140 thousand vehicles and improve access to the bus terminal, the UTN, he Olympic Park and the Racetrack. The project consists of the extension of two collectors, one in the north direction and the other in the south direction, improving the conditions of road safetytravel times and connectivity with the Western area of the City.”
“The work, which will begin in December, also includes new green spaces, pedestrian paths, bike paths and recreational spaces for residents,” he continued and added that “in July, we began work on the ground floor. Bosh bridge. A vehicular crossing under the railway viaduct of the rock train which will have two lanes for cars, pedestrian crossings and a bike path and will be completed in August of next year. This low bridge will continue the Towpath and will be complemented by the works that are being done in the Creek to improve the lives of 230 thousand residents of Commune 4.”
Regarding the prison situation, Hours after the prisoners’ escape, the Chief of Staff stated that they continue “working to resolve the Building Emergency in Wardens and Police Stations. A few days ago, we began to move forward with the process of transferring the penitentiary service to become responsible for the care of those detained by the City Police who have not committed federal crimes,” he stated and highlighted that “the previous National Government left more than 2 thousand federal prisoners housed in Police Stations and Wardens of Buenos Aires that had to be transferred to the Federal Penitentiary Service and generate an overpopulation greater than 100%. Nearly 3,000 police officers are dedicated to taking care of prisoners when they should be taking care of neighbors. A Penitentiary Service that depends on the City means that the police officers who today are dedicated to taking care of prisoners can return to patrol the streets.”
Regarding the environmental aspect, He stressed that after 13 years They managed to recover navigability in the Riachuelo and highlighted that they are improving Caminito’s infrastructure.
In turn, the deputies present questioned the chief of staff. From the Union for the Homeland bench, the legislator Juan Manuel Valdes He complained: “The city in this case is in serious problems, when it has also been governed for twenty years by the same political group. In this crisis framework, it decides to underexecute and reduce the amounts allocated to Human Development. That is why I ask what the City plans to do in the face of this panorama. “Do you plan to put the heads of the Buenos Aires people under Javier Milei’s chainsaw?”
The person who also spoke was the UP legislator, Claudia Neira. “We have an issue with security and it worries us specifically, and that is why before you came a few days ago, this block sent you a note asking you to send us a report regarding the transfer of the penitentiary service, because we do not understand what it is about. “, he said and added: “What is being transferred?”
“Are the members of the federal penitentiary service transferred to the city, are those members of the federal penitentiary service transferred to the city and are they going to take care of the detainees in the ‘non-prisons’ that we have? Or are they going to transfer the Devoto prison to us? Are we going to accept the transfer, which will also be transferred to Marcos Paz in a while?” he asked. At the end of the exhibition, Opposition legislators questioned the lack of responses from the Chief of Staff.
Source: Ambito
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