Rough Roads for Samara and Nosara in 2010

Sunday, December 27th, 2009 | Filed under Travel & Leisure

nosara_roads BY OLIVER PÉREZ

It seems as though the districts of Samara and Nosara will have to make due with a low road maintenance budget next year, as they will have to share 48 million colones ($85,000) allocated by the Municipality of Nicoya.

The funds have been established by the Municipality, protected by the Tributary Simplification and Efficiency Law 8114; which governs how the national fuel tax is assigned to local road maintenance. Conforming to the regulations of this Law, the Municipal Council and the cantonal road board establish the assignment of these resources. That does not include funds set aside for paving the main road, Route 160, which comes from a loan to the national government.

The Municipal Council approved and sent the budget, which doesn’t have to be spent only on roads, to the General Finance Office of the Republic for ratification. In Sámara, ¢2.500.000 ($4,425) was budgeted to the community of Santo Domingo for the purchase of ceramics for the community hall; while the Association of Development of Sámara will be able to work with ¢4 million ($7,000) that was assigned to it for the purchase of two washing machines and industrial driers. In San Fernando, they will have ¢1.8 million ($3,185) to put a roof on the communal hall.

With respect to road maintenance and rehabilitation in Nosara, ¢23 million ($40,700) has been allotted. There will be 800 thousand colones ($1400) for the road to Pelada beach, and ¢4 million ($7080) is assigned to the road between the plaza and Arenales. The highest budget is for the rehabilitation and drainage construction of the Zaragoza-Nosara pass, which is ¢10 million ($17,700). ¢4.6 million ($8150) is destined for the twice yearly maintenance of the road between downtown Nosara and Santa Teresita; while the road between Garza and Las Delicias will have ¢2.6 million ($4600) and the pass from Ostional to Los Angeles will receive ¢2.5 million ($4425).

The police delegation of Nosara will also have a turn of ¢700 thousand ($1240) in materials for building improvements. In 2010, the streets of Sámara will see machinery, others will not. Therefore, the crossing from Hotel la Estancia to Santa Teresita there will be ¢3 million ($5300) for the maintenance of that street; in Matapalo to Santo Domingo ¢2.7 million ($4780), in Terciopelo-Chinampas ¢3 million ($5300) and between Silencio and Pueblo Nuevo ¢7.5 million ($13,275).

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