The City Council of Santa Eulària des Riu has initially approved the new Municipal Organic Regulations (ROM) during the celebration of the traditional Ple de sa Sobrassada, held this Friday. The document aims to provide a more precise and structured regulation of the functioning of the plenary sessions, strengthen the order of the debates, ensure transparency and provide greater legal certainty to the agreements adopted in the plenary.
One of the main changes introduced by the new regulations is the regulation of the development of plenary debates. For the first time, maximum intervention times are established for the discussion of motions. Thus, the initial presentation will have a maximum of five minutes, while the groups will have three minutes in the first turn of reply. If a second turn is requested, this will be optional and will be limited to three minutes for the proposer and one minute for the rest of the groups.
During the plenary session, the Training Plan for public employees of the City Council of Santa Eulària des Riu for 2026 has also been approved. This plan includes an offer of more than 2,600 hours of training with the aim of strengthening the technical, operational, administrative and legal training of municipal staff. Most of the training will be online, with more than 2,500 hours, while about a hundred hours will be taught in person and will be focused on practical and operational content.
The training includes key areas such as police matters and cross-cutting content, including the implementation of a new computerized administrative tool for processing files. This will streamline procedures and improve communication with citizens in a more efficient and transparent way.
Likewise, the Plenary has given the green light to the modification of the Tax Ordinance regulating the fee for the collection, reception and adoption of pets. The most relevant change affects the adoption of dogs, since the differentiation by age existing until now is eliminated. The new wording establishes a single rate of 65 euros for all dogs, which means a reduction in the case of animals under three years of age and a simplification of the administrative procedure. The aim is to facilitate adoptions and encourage a greater number of animals to find a new home.
As is tradition, the December plenary session also served to bid farewell to the institutional year together with the workers of the consistory. After the session, members of the government team, municipal employees, representatives of different sectors of society and neighbors of the municipality shared the traditional “torrada de sobrasada” and the Christmas toast.
As for the voting, several items on the agenda were approved unanimously, while others were approved with different support and abstentions from the political groups, and two proposals were also rejected.
