The Mayor of Madrid, Ana Botella, has called for volunteers to man municipal installations and facilities, so they can ‘return something to society’. She made a call to the Madrid people on Thursday, ‘given the exceptional situation we find ourselves in’, referring to the recession and the lack of money in the City Hall, that we have a series of public facilities which we have built, but now find ourselves unable to run. She said the idea of volunteers was ‘imaginative’ and means that the facilities can continue open and become profitable. It’s expected that cultural and social centres will be at the centre of the plan. Botella said this would not apply in essential or specialised services and said that no public sector jobs would be substituted. Since 2009, 1,851 jobs have gone from the City Hall, mostly through retirement.
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