The aim of the Positive Agenda that was created for Juruti-PA, is to operate in partnership with the community and the municipal authorities (Town Administration and Town Council) in order to bring about improvements in the quality of life of the population by immediate actions being taken in the areas of Education, Health, Security, Infrastructure and Social Assistance.
The actions to be introduced by the Positive Agenda, and which are budgeted at R$ 50 million, should benefit the population of Juruti for the whole of the life of the mining enterprise. The following Positive Agenda works, totaling more than R$6 million, are currently on-going:
Foundation work for the Juruiti Community Hospital that should become a service point of reference in highly complex cases;
Investment: R$ 1,159,670.00
Acquisition of new X-ray equipment, an autoclave, washing and drying machines for the hospital laundry, a spin dryer and an ironing machine for the "Pedro Vallinoto" Municipal Hospital, which is also going to benefit from a refurbishment project funded by Alcoa that will guaranteeing the future functioning of a Mixed Unit, a Medical and Outpatient Treatment Center and a Maternity and Infant In-patient Unit (the executive project has been approved by the Municipal Health Department).
Investment: R$ 136,000.00
Refurbishment and expansion of the Basic Health Units in Maracanã and Palmeiras districts; work has already started on the latter.
Investment: R$ 215,000.00
Construction of 16 classrooms in 8 municipal schools (the first installment of the funds has already been released).
Investment: R$ 474,125.00
Extension and adaptation of the Civil Police Station in Juruti and construction of living quarters for the local police; work on the latter has already started;
Investment: R$ 353,000.00
Construction of a water supply micro-system in the Bom Pastor region to improve the old system in the Terra Preta region (concluded);
Investment: R$ 1,800,000.00
Local business people
By partnership with the Commercial and Business Associations of Juruti (ACEJ) and Santarém (ACES), the Instituto Esperança de Ensino Superior Pós-graduação, Extensão e Pesquisa [Hope Institute for University Teaching, Post-graduation, Specialization and Research] (IESPES) and the Programa de Desenvolvimento de Fornecedores do Pará [Para State Suppliers’ Development Program] (PDF), supported by the Para State Federation of Industries (Fiepa), Alcoa has been encouraging business people in the West of Para to become qualified. A first group of 38 business people completed the Business Management course at the beginning of this year and another group is already being put together.
Labor
With regard to the training and preparation of labor the Company, in partnership with the Para Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial [National Industrial Apprenticeship Service] (Senai), is developing a Professional Training Program. The goal is to train and qualify nearly 2,800 professionals over a two year period in a strong partnership that includes the construction of a permanent Senai school in Juruti. The initiative will guarantee a series of courses directed specifically at the introduction and operation phases of the bauxite mine and also at other items that are indicated as being of priority in accordance with the workers’ vocation and the Juruti economy. It is estimated that some 4,000 direct jobs will be generated by the undertaking In the current phase, while in its operational phase the Mine will employ 800 people. Alcoa has committed to using at least 70% regional labor, although the actual quantity of people hired from the West Para region is nearer 80%. Hiring services and suppliers for constructing the Juruti unit should account for spending of some R$ 1.7 billion over the next few years and a part of this sum has been earmarked for regional enterprises.
Suppliers
By March, 2007 the setting up of the mine had earned the State’s supplier companies R$ 145.3 million, of which almost R$ 20 million were spent specifically with firms established in the Juruti municipality and R$ 40 million with other suppliers from the region. In this same period the Town Administration collected R$ 4.5 million in taxes and charges from the undertaking.
Full list of Positive Agenda actions:
Health
Construction of the Juruti Community Hospital, with structures for providing the very best in terms of service in highly complex cases;
Refurbishment and expansion of the “Pedro Vallinoto” Municipal Hospital that will house a Mixed Unit, a Medical and Outpatient Treatment Center and a Maternity and Infant In-patient Unit (the executive project has been approved by the Municipal Health Department);
Acquisition of new X-ray equipment, an autoclave, hospital washing and drying machines, a spin-dryer and an ironing machine;
Construction of a Mixed Unit in Vila de Tabatinga;
Construction of a Mixed Unit in Vila Muirapinima or Juruti Velho (physical structure and the first phase of instrumentation already concluded);
Basic Health Units in the Maracanã and Palmeiras districts (project approved by the Municipal Health Department, both in the public tender process phase);
Construction of a laboratory in the Municipal Health Department for research by the Evandro Chagas Institute (concluded);
Education
Construction of a permanent school for the Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial [National Industrial Apprenticeship Service] (Senai);
Construction of sixteen classrooms in eight municipal schools (first installment of the funds already released);
Construction of an Elementary School in the Maracanã district (awaiting indication of a building lot by the town administration);
Contribution to encourage reading via the Projeto Livro Na Praça [Book in the Square Project] (on-going);
Environmental education activities in partnership with the non-governmental organization, Conservation International.
Social Assistance
Construction of suitable structures for the headquarters of the Programa de Erradicação do Trabalho Infantil [Program for the Eradication of Child Labor] (PETI) and maintenance of its activities, in addition to a space for the Guardianship Council (awaiting indication of a building lot by the town administration)
Security
Strengthen the Court segment in Juruti, with the construction of the Law Courts, and guarantee basic conditions for the future setting up of the Court District and town’s Public Defense Attorney’s Office (civil and conceptual project already prepared and in the phase of formalizing an agreement between the State’s Court of Appeals, the State Public Attorney’s Office, the State Public Defense Attorney’s Office, the Town Administration and Alcoa);
Expansion and adaptation of the Juruti Civil Police Station;
Construction of living quarters for the local police (on-going);
Promote traffic safety (definition of the project’s vehicle circulation routes in the town center)
Culture
Support for the construction of sheds where the Munduruku and Muirapinima tribes can make their costumes and adornments
Support for the Juruti Tribal Festival;
Establishment of the Juruti Cultural Center, a place reserved for manifestations of popular culture
Urban infrastructure
Contribution towards preparing the town’s Participative Master Plan (concluded);
Construction of a water supply micro-system in the Bom Pastor region that is going to improve the old system in the Terra Preta region (concluded);
Construction of a Water and Sewage Treatment Station, in line with the criteria established by the Para Sanitation Company – Cosanpa (on-going);
Construction of a sanitary land-fill site (the town administration has acquired the land and has asked Alcoa to prepare the area’s topographical and drilling studies);
Expansion of the town’s airport structure (on-going);
Construction of the municipal slaughter house (area under study because of legal restrictions);
Revitalization of the República Square (awaiting a proposal from the Town Administration to start feasibility studies);
Sewage Master Plan.
Rural infrastructure
Opening of an access road to the Lago Preto region (concluded);
Repairing and modernizing the Cipó district road (concluded);
Repairing and modernizing the Socó district road (concluded);
Construction of a bridge over the Santo Antônio River (concluded);
Improvements and extension of the PA-257 highway to the Rosona interchange, and a municipal highway linking the interchange to Alcoa’s mining area (currently on-going);
Restoration and improvements in the 17km access road to the Batata community (funds available to the Town Administration);
Repairing and modernizing a further 53 km of rural roads to be prioritized by the Municipal Department of Works (funds already made available by the Town Administration);
Repairing and modernizing the existing 72 km of access roads within the Socó I Settlement, including the main access to the Café Torrado community;
Environment
Establish an environmental conservation unit in the municipality, by means of a National System of Conservation Units (SNUC);
Development of the Program for Supporting Conservation of the Biodiversity of the Amazon in partnership with the NGO, Conservation International (CI) in order to create a type of Biodiversity Corridor, in other words, a network of conservation units in the micro-region between the Madeira and Tapajós Rivers.
