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A participatory process is a sequence of participatory activities (e.g. first filling out a survey, then making proposals, discussing them in face-to-face or virtual meetings, and finally prioritizing them) with the aim of defining and making a decision on a specific topic.
Examples of participatory processes are: a process of electing committee members (where candidatures are first presented, then debated and finally a candidacy is chosen), participatory budgets (where proposals are made, valued economically and voted on with the money available), a strategic planning process, the collaborative drafting of a regulation or norm, the design of an urban space or the production of a public policy plan.
Process phases
L'Ajuntament de Sitges té la voluntat de sotmetre a CONSULTA PÚBLICA PREVIA el Protocol de Festa Major, que va ser aprovat inicialment pel Ple Municipal el 25 de març de 2019.
In the presentation phase of the proposals citizens, organizations and associations that so deem it, can make their opinions regarding the new regulation in the City Council of Sitges through the formulation of proposals through this web portal.
The Town Hall will make a report with the contributions made exposing the suggestions received and technically justifying those that will be and those that will not be taken into account.
El Ple de la Corporació, en sessió ordinària celebrada el dia 26 d’abril de 2023, va adoptar, entre d’altres, l'acord d'aprovació definitiva del Protocol de Festa Major i resolució d'al·legacions. El document es pot veure als documents relacionats.
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Protocol of the Major Festa de Sitges in honor of Sant Bartomeu i Santa Tecla
About this process
L'Ajuntament de Sitges promou a public consultation prèvia to the definitive approval of the Protocol of Festa Major de Sitges in honor of Sant Bartomeu i Santa Tecla.
The finality of the protocol is to fix the conjunct d'actes i of costums that the llarg dels anys have anat configurant els rituals i els seus elements. It is to dir, to fix the structure of the party, the material and immaterial patrimony, and to regulate them.
The criteria that are described in this protocol regulate the performance of the Major Festa and avoid arbitrarieties and establish a bona between the institutions, the groups and the colleges that participate and support the organization and celebration.
Regulatory framework
In accordance with the regulatory framework that regulates citizen participation in the preparation and review of rules and regulations, the Ajuntament de Sitges promotes a public consultation prior to the approval of the Protocol of Festa Major de Sitges in honor of Sant Bartomeu i Santa Tecla.
Purpose of the public consultation and the information of the city on the document of the Protocol to be completed, if it concerns the scales, images and means of communication that are on the platform, and that should have been analyzed and valued by the Consell del Patrimoni Festiu de la Festa Major in honor of Sant Bartomeu and Santa Tecla.
The way in which citizens can participate actively will be presenting proposals and amendments to the framework document:
-Proposals written to be incorporated into the reference text, motivating the application for incorporation.
-Amendments to the text already written, in order to improve it, remove it or change the wording.
Ancestors
The Major Festival of Sitges in honor of Sant Bartomeu and Santa Tecla is a traditional festival declared by the Municipal Plenary of Special Interest for the Municipality on December 21, 2012 and declared Patrimonial Festival of National Interest by the Generalitat de Catalunya in the Agreement of Government 104/2016 of July 19, 2016.
The first Protocol that regulates the Greater Festival of Sitges was approved in the Municipal Plenary Session of the Town Hall on May 8, 2005 and later it will be partially modified on May 31, 2010, so it is much earlier than the Declaration of Patrimonial Festival of National Interest. by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Problems to solve
From the Declaration of the Greater Festival of Sitges as Patrimonial Feast, in 2015 it was decided the creation of a Consell de Patrimonio Festivo of the Fiesta Major and of Santa Tecla and the Plenum of the Corporació, in extraordinary session held on the day December 21, 2015 the approval of the members that have to be part of this Consell was agreed.
The structure of the new text of the Protocol takes into account the agreement of the Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya cited above, which declares the National Festival of National Interest the Major Festival of Sitges in honor of Sant Bartomeu and Santa Tecla, and understands the celebrations as a unique festive event because the two saints are co-patrons of the village.
What the approval of the new Protocol of the Sitges Festival in honor of Sant Bartomeu and Santa Tecla seeks is to adapt the Fiesta to this new reality.
Need and opportunity
Currently, the Municipal Festivity Commissions already largely follow the Protocol approved in 2005 and the Sitgetans and the Sitges, both those participating in the Festival, and those who make public, have become aware of the meaning of the Party, of its history and the need to preserve its essence.
Once created the Consell of the Festive Patrimony of the Greater Celebration, that watches by the preservation of the celebration in general and by its future, jointly with the regidoria of Culture, Traditions and Celebrations and the municipal commission of Greater Celebration, the objective of the which is more the organization of the party of the year in which it has been designated as such. It is necessary to go a step further and update the protocol to settle the party more in its tradition.
Object of the norm
The new version of the Protocol with respect to the previous version:
· Groups all the sections that talk about the same topic.
· Complete the information regarding the events program of Sant Bartomeu and Santa Tecla.
· It adapts some sections to the fact that there is the Consell del Patrimoni Festiu de Festa Major of Sitges.
In order to facilitate the reading and monitoring of the Protocol, different sections are divided into 4 blocks:
· Block 1: they form it from section A to section E. It contains those points that define the Major Festival of Sitges.
· Block 2: from sections 1 to 8. It contains the organizational parameters of the Fiesta.
· Block 3: sections F and G. Includes the events program of Sant Bartomeu and Santa Tecla.
· Block 4: sections H and I, where the protocol itself is regulated.
With regard to the program, in this version of the Protocol new acts have been added and those that are made beyond the 23rd and 24th of August and the 22nd and 23rd of September. The previous version focused basically on the acts of these four days.
The added acts are:
Sant Bartomeu:
· The delivery, transport and opening of the exhibition of the image of Sant Bartomeu
· The castellera performance (August 24)
· The festival dance (August 24)
· The celebration of Sant Lli (the vermouth, the mass in suffrage of the deceased of the village and the dance concert) (August 25)
· Dancing for the elderly
· The closing sardalist revetlla (August 26)
· The castellera exhibition
Holy button:
· The Night of Fire
· The parade of
· The delivery, transportation and opening of the exhibition of the image of Santa Tecla
· The festivals of the festival
. The castellera performance (September 23)
· The castellera exhibition
The creation of the Consell de Patrimonio Festivo de la Fiesta Mayor, with an organ of citizen participation of the City Council of Sitges, with advisory functions, formulation of proposals and suggestions and of adoption and execution of the matters related to the Patrimony of Major Holiday of the villa; has obliged to update the following sections:
· 5.9 The follow-up of the activity of the dances, the hors d'oeuvres and the festive image
· H. Disposicions that regulate the compliance of this protocol
· I.1. Approval of this protocol.
The purpose of the protocol is to set the set of acts and customs that over the years have been configuring the rituals and their elements. That is to say, to fix the structure of the celebration, its material and immaterial patrimony and the rules to fulfill.
The criteria described in this protocol regulate the proper functioning of the Festa Major and want to avoid arbitrariness and establish a good understanding between the institutions and the groups and groups that participate and help in its organization and celebration.
