To bring about improvements in the quality of life by investing in infrastructure, Alcoa, in partnership with the Municipal Administration of Juruti and in agreement with the community, prepared and introduced the Positive Agenda. With investments of R$ 50 million the package of actions includes rural and urban infrastructure, health, education, culture the environment, public security and social assistance. It is a set of voluntary actions on the part of the Company that has been agreed directly with the community, following public hearings that resulted in the license being granted for setting up the Juruti Mine.
Health – Basic Health Units have been built in the Palmeiras and Maracanã districts, in addition to Mixed Units in Vila Muirapinima (or Juruti Velho) and in Vila Tabatinga. All the health care units that have been built or refurbished were furnished, fitted out with instruments and fully equipped with medical technology. At present the Juruti Community Hospital is also being constructed, which will be a benchmark in medium and high complexity medical care.
Security and justice – To meet the needs of security and justice the town’s civilian police station was refurbished and extended and living quarters were built for the local uniformed police. To improve aspects of road safety a traffic flow system was defined for company vehicles in the center of town, thus reducing traffic flow on the busiest roads. The Juruti Legal Complex was also built, with a Court House and three official houses for the judge, the public prosecutor and the public defense attorney.
Education and culture – The Municipal Administration received funds for it to build 16 new classrooms in public schools; the building work is currently underway. In the Positive Agenda for 2010 there are plans to build a Juruti Culture House that will be home to exhibitions, cultural workshops, events and also the town’s archeological treasures.
Urban and rural infrastructure – In the rural areas, among the works already completed those that stand out are the improvements in existing roads, the opening up of new access roads to the Lago Preto region, the local road network in Cipó, the local road network in Socó II, 17 km of main road to the Batata community and bridges over the Branco River and the Santo Antônio creek. Part of the PA-257, PA-192 and PA-260 highways that provide access to the Juruti Mine’s beneficiation area, has been paved; there is now a total of 55 km of main roads that are in a great state of repair, thus improving traffic in the communities located in the municipality’s uplands region.
In the Juruti urban areas, the highlight was the contribution made to the preparation of the town’s Participative Master Plan. A water supply micro-system was built in the Bom Pastor district, which also received drainage work. Deep wells were drilled in the Santa Rita and São Marcos districts and in the center of town, to provide inhabitants with water. Two garbage compacter trucks were donated to the Town Administration.
Complete list of the actions of the Positive Agenda:
Health • Construction of a hospital that will be a benchmark in medium and high complexity medical care;
• Refurbishment and extension of the “Francisco Barros”, Municipal Hospital, where a mixed unit, a Medical-Outpatient Care Center and a Mother & Infant Inpatient Unit will function.
• All health care units that have been built and/or refurbished have been furnished, supplied with instruments and fully equipped with medical technology;
• Construction of a Mixed Health Unit in Vila de Tabatinga;
• Construction of the Mixed Health Unit in Vila Muirapinima (or Juruti Velho) and supply of instrumentation for it;
• Basic Health Units in the Palmeira and Maracanã districts;
• Signing of an agreement for medical care in the municipality of Juruti;
• Construction of a laboratory in the Municipal Health Department for research by the Evandro Chagas Institute.
• Agreement for supporting the basic pharmacy and reinforcement of the municipality’s team of health professionals (completed in 12/31/2008).
Education • Construction of the SENAI permanent school;
• Construction of sixteen classrooms for municipal schools;
• Elementary School in the Maracanã district – Technical Training Center.
Social assistance • Construction of suitable structures for the headquarters of the Program for the Eradication of Child Labor (PETI), plus ongoing support for its activities
Security • Construction of the Legal Complex (judicial district already set up, including defense attorney’s office);
• Extension and adaptation of the Juriti Civil Police Station;
• Construction of living quarters for the uniformed police;
• Road safety – definition of a traffic flow system for the circulation of the Mine project’s vehicles in the center of town.
Culture • Support for the construction of sheds/workshops for the making of costumes and decorations by the Munduruku and Muirapinima tribes;
• Support for the Juruti Festival of Tribes;
• Juruti House of Culture, an area dedicated to manifestations of the popular culture of Juruti.
Urban infrastructure • Contribution to the preparation of the municipal Participative Master Plan;
• Construction of a water supply micro-system that is linked to the Bom Pastor district and that improved the district’s and region’s water supply.
• Drainage of Lauro Sodré St.;
• Drainage of the Bom Pastor district;
• Donation of two garbage compacter trucks;
• Construction of wells in the Santa Rita district;
• Construction of wells in the São Marcos district.
• Construction of a well in the center of Juruti;
• Construction of a municipal sanitary landfill site;
• Expansion of the town’s airport structures;
• Improvements in the town’s unpaved streets;
• Construction of three deep wells in the center and Santa Rita and São Marcos districts;
• Construction of the passenger terminal for the Juruti airport.
Rural infrastructure
• Opening of an access road to the Lago Preto region;
• Construction of a well in the Lago Preto community;
• Improvements to the bridge over the Branco River;
• Restoration of the Cipó local neighborhood road ;
• Restoration of the Socó II neighborhood road;
• Construction of a bridge over the Santo Antônio creek;
• Restoration and passing over of funds in partnership with the Municipal Administration of Juruti for improving the local road network.
• Water supply (well, reservoir and collection plant) in Vila Muirapinima;
• Community headquarters in Jabuti;
• Partial paving of the PA 257, 192 and 260 highways that link Juruti
to Alcoa’s bauxite beneficiation area.
Environment • Development of a Program for Supporting the Conservation of the Biodiversity of the Tapajós-Arapiuns Region in partnership with NGO, Conservation International (CI-Brasil) for creating a type of Biodiversity Corridor, in other words, a network of protected areas abd other areas that are less intensively used.
• Acquisition of a plot of land on the banks of the Jará Lake for the Municipal Department of the Environment.
