Pullaro: “This year we're going to carry out works worth US$500mn”

Press release from Santa Fe government

This is a machine translation of the original release, issued in Spanish

August 28, 2024

Governor Maximiliano Pullaro inaugurated a section of the first stage of the paving of 9 de Julio Avenue in the city of Gálvez, San Jerónimo department, which represented an investment of 67 million pesos. The works were carried out between the streets of Alvear and Neuquén Boulevard, within the framework of the Road Strengthening Program of the Provincial Directorate of Roads, in a period of seven months. The work was financed 80% by the provincial government and the remaining 20% by the municipal government.

During the event, which took place in front of the headquarters of the Vecinal Barrio Oeste, Pullaro highlighted that "the formation of our country, in large part, was due to the immense contribution made by the province of Santa Fe; and 200 years later we continue fighting and demanding the same thing that Brigadier Estanislao López demanded at that time.

“We want resources to be able to arrive to improve our productive infrastructure and so that our neighbors can have a better quality of life. There is no way that our country will move forward if it does not start to pour resources into the productive areas, such as ours, such as Santa Fe, Córdoba, Entre Ríos, the Central Region and the Litoral Region. We defend the province of Santa Fe with great respect and with great firmness, but we also do what needs to be done.”

Order and efficiency

The governor then pointed out that “we understood that there were many overdue projects in Santa Fe. That is why we had to start by setting an example, so the first adjustment we made to our province was in politics and we reduced political spending considerably. With that, in the first six months of management we were able to have a small surplus.”

"During this time we have already started planning very important projects, unique in the Argentine Republic. This year we are going to carry out projects worth 500 million dollars," the governor of Santa Fe emphasized.

“Many provinces look at us and say: how is this being done in Santa Fe? We are doing it because we have managed to establish order and be efficient in the administration of public resources . Order and efficiency were the two parameters that we had to achieve in order to be able to bring Santa Fe forward. We are doing works that perhaps would never have been dreamed of in Santa Fe. We are encouraged because we see that we have the resources to be able to do it. If we work together we will be able to be more and more efficient. Santa Fe is immense and invincible and we will be able to achieve all our objectives,” concluded Pullaro.

Postponed work, now completed

For her part, Vice Governor Gisela Scaglia thanked “this work, which is very important in the city, and must continue, because it is one of the outstanding debts that we have in the history of Gálvez”; and congratulated “the mayor who, as soon as he took office, made it one of his priorities. Today we are inaugurating this work, because there was austerity, good management of public accounts, and because we are working together,” concluded Scaglia.

Finally, the mayor of Gálvez, Mariano Busso, indicated that “this is a postponed work, which was promised for more than 20 years, and in a few months we are inaugurating this 2 and a half block section of this 9 de Julio Avenue” and detailed that the works included “lowering the level of the avenue by 40 centimeters and raising the adjacent streets to the west by 40 centimeters so that the rains do not complicate matters for the neighbors.” In addition, with “the municipality’s own funds, we contributed 25 million pesos to finish the corner of 9 de Julio and Balveano.”

“In parallel, with 63 million pesos in contributions from the province, we are enhancing and improving the entire western neighborhood, from Balveano to 17 de Agosto, from Mexico to 9 de Julio, with ditching and gravel so that neighbors can leave their homes on rainy days,” concluded Busso.

The senator for the San Jerónimo department, Leonardo Diana; the deputy administrator of the Provincial Directorate of Roads for the Southern Zone, Benjamín Gianetti; and other provincial and municipal authorities also participated in the activity.