Cehegín their celebrations this year will live more austere in the last decade because of budget cuts forced by the crisis and the substantial reduction of income of the municipalities, will result in drastic cost saving measures.
Councilman Celebrations ceheginero consistory, Ruben Sanchez, has reported that the week of theater and performing arts, 'Begastri Stage', which had been held in recent years will make a stop in this edition, as the budget for festivities this year not to carry it out.
The mayor also announced that the Board 'Camelot' will not open its doors this year for any event since the cost of rent and the conditioning of the room opening unviable.
The special holiday lighting will be another chapter that will suffer more cuts as it reduced by almost 75%, which will lead to the Gran Via does not have the arched galleries that have been in recent years and will be decorated with normal arches and in smaller amounts, like the other streets that will largely reduced the number of lighting decorations.
To this are added other measures as the abolition of fireworks on the 11th, or the removal of day care that had been paying at the fairgrounds.
On the other hand Sanchez said that "the rise of 75 euros in the price of the barracks or tents for 45 in the plots was a measure that the city must already this year can not be done entirely by the costs of wiring and plumbing of each of the barracks. These costs close to 20,000, would represent a rise of more than EUR 120 per booth and this year has only been applied a rise of 75 ".
In addition, said the mayor, "the council will continue this year taking over the power consumption of the entire fairgrounds."
As for musical responsible for festivities has reported that "nothing has been closed since between budget cuts and the fact that this year many artists are not touring is becoming more difficult decisions in this regard"
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín