Municipal Bulletin Penela

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Municipality of Penela

DIRECTION

Eduardo Nogueira dos Santos

EDITION

Leonardo Silva Martins

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LEGAL DEPOSIT No. 137415/99

Address: Municipality of Penela, Town Square, 3230-253 Penela

Phone: 239 560 120

E-mail: press@cm-penela.pt

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Dear friends from Penela, You now have our Municipal Bulletin, the first of this municipal mandate. An exercise of transparency, communication and accountability, that we present in a new format of newspaper, which is smaller and easier to read, ecological and significantly more cost effective.

In this Bulletin we will try to review summarily, this first year at the helm of the Municipality. A year of huge and complex challenges, after the Penelenses placed in our hands their trust.

Naturally, this first year was a great deal of office work with many late nights and countless meetings in the search of the best solutions to overcome all of the challenges.

In a moment of balance like this, I must recognize that I found a set of unexpected difficulties, including some unpleasant surprises, which have hampered the action in this first year.

On the one hand, at the organizational level, we found insufficient documentary information, obsolete computer equipments and an insufficient number of employees to deliver the most basic functions of a municipality, now aggravated by the challenge of the recente transfer of some services, from the central administration of the government to the local authorities.

On the other hand, we found a set of previously assumed obligations, some of great importance that were not of the public domain, which strongly conditions our municipal budget and delays the implementation of election commitments that we assumed.

When we considered that the worst of the pandemic situation was over and that we would have a year of economic growth, however we had to face the war in Ukraine, with all that it means for our life in community, not least the inflation that affects as all.

Nevertheless and despite these and many other initial difficulties, we have achieved a