Another scheme was launched, spread over three years, with which the LESA agency will allocate three million euros for projects in the communities carried out by the local councils. The projects proposed by the local councils themselves, after being evaluated, are given an allocation of funds by the LESA agency.
In the past three years, LESA has passed around three million euros in a similar scheme to finance sixty projects in various localities in Malta and Gozo. This while for this year, LESA will commit almost two million euros to finance thirty-two projects in the Maltese islands.
In a speech during a ceremony for the awarding of funds to thirty-two local councils, the Minister for the Interior, Security and Work Byron Camilleri looked back at the scheme with which the money that the agency LESA is brought in by the summons, after deducting the costs, it returns them to the communities. He said that the success achieved through the scheme in the last three years led to it being renewed to give greater strength to the local councils and to the residents of their localities.
“By carrying out the projects put forward by the local councils, the LESA agency is giving its share so that, apart from being an actor in the protection of order, it is also a participant in improving the quality and health of the people through of actual investment through various projects that are enjoyed by everyone,” stated Minister Camilleri, while explaining that these projects vary from projects that improve local security, to environmental projects and open spaces and even those in favor of transport for residents through clean transport.
The Parliamentary Secretary for Local Government Alison Zerafa Civelli welcomed this first cycle of funds in this second scheme for projects financed by LESA. She said how these local councils during the last months submitted their proposals so that today they received confirmation of these projects which are expected to be carried out in the coming months.
“These are funds that came in from the summons, but which the agency did not keep for itself, but is giving them back to our communities in beneficial projects that the citizen will benefit from. These projects were created by the local councils themselves, because no one but them knows the locality more and also the needs and wants of the respective community,” concluded Parliamentary Secretary Zerafa Civelli.
The CEO of LESA, Svetlick Flores, was also present for the ceremony of awarding the letters of financial commitment to the mayors of the localities that benefited from this year’s funds.
