Military personnel receive urban planning file from Coimbra City Council

The Coimbra City Council’s urban document archive will be transferred to the Intervention Brigade Headquarters, next to Largo de Santana, while works are taking place at municipal facilities.

This temporary transfer was framed with the signing, this Thursday, of an addendum to the collaboration protocol between the two entities, dated November 19, 2012, and follows the Executive’s deliberation on March 4. The addendum was signed by the President of the Chamber, José Manuel Silva, and Brigadier General Nuno Manuel Mendes Farinha, of the Intervention Brigade (BrigInt).

The location where the City Council’s urban planning archive is currently located is currently under construction, so it is important to ensure that it is temporarily transferred to another space.

The Portuguese Army/Intervention Brigade was available to host the archive, in line with the strategic collaboration partnership between the two entities, formalized in the 2012 protocol and now strengthened through the signing of this addendum.

Based on this document, the Army undertakes to authorize the temporary use by the city council of a space in the General Headquarters for the storage of the Municipality’s documentary archive and to authorize the carrying out of interventions by the Chamber – at the expense of the municipality – in the space and adjacent spaces necessary for the accommodation, conservation and preservation of the documentary archive, namely the execution of improvements, as well as authorizing the entry of municipal workers, previously identified, into its facilities, for placement, supervision and control of the document archive.

In turn, the Coimbra City Council undertakes to guarantee the maintenance of the archive under its responsibility, in accordance with the standards, and to ensure the necessary interventions, in any capacity, in the spaces, with a view to accommodating and preserving the archive.

The Municipality is responsible, at all times, for the conservation of the documentary archive, in addition to permanently providing an official contact point for any necessary contact. Once the use of the space has ended, all improvements made will be for the Army, free of charge, and the Municipality undertakes to collaborate with the Army in preparing the said space for use for the purposes it deems appropriate.