The councilor responsible for Sports of MC Cartagena denounces that Gomez leaves without having arrived, making it clear that he has collected a public salary without working and without showing any interest for his responsibilities in the Executive
After the official confirmation of the imminent departure of the local government of socialist mayor Obdulia Gómez, responsible for the Department of Sports for the last nine months, MC Cartagena has negatively assessed his progress in front of this plot.
In this way, the councilman and responsible for sports training Cartagena, Ricardo Segado, has lamented "the loss of nine months in terms of sports management, paralysis and absolute neglect of clubs and athletes. Gomez has shown not to have earned a salary public that has charged so far, since it has not shown any interest in the needs of sports associations, of which many of them have been waiting for more than half a year to be received and have not even had the opportunity to appear before the council " .
Delay in the call for public subsidies
The paralysis in the Department of Sports during the last nine months is evident, among other issues, with the delay suffered in the call for aid and public subsidies that clubs and associations expect and despair.
"Many of them are being drowned because of this lack of interest, the call for aid has had to be delayed due to errors of form, that is, due to the lack of supervision of Gómez." Finally, thanks to the efforts of the municipal technicians, been corrected and published. "
To all this we must add the delay with which the City Council approved the Budget for 2018, which in most councils was not a problem to ratify their respective calls, a fact that in the Sports has not happened, " having to be corrected by the low interest of Obdulia Gomez, more concerned about going to his new chair and getting rid of the mayor than to manage the municipal portfolio that corresponds to him and for which he charges a public salary every month, "he underlined Mowed
In this way, the clubs and sports associations will not charge the subsidy until October or November, having elapsed almost a calendar year since they were called.
The Cartagena councilor has ensured in this regard that "it is more than five hundred thousand euros that must be made available to existing entities today in our municipality."
Gómez, with his back to the Department
Emphasizing the lack of interest of Obdulia Gómez, the mayor of MC Cartagena has revealed "his pasotism, with his back to the Department and appearing at specific moments of our sport."
In this regard, Segado stressed that "this is an area that requires work and continuous dedication, so we regret that this has not been the case and that steps have been taken backwards." Yes, the disagreements and differences with the mayor they have failed, working both against the tide and to the detriment of the people of Cartagena ".
"The only thing that Mrs. Gómez has shown in sports is to run away and running away from their political responsibilities," said Ricardo Segado.
Two and a half years of progress thanks to the management of MC
It should be recalled that during the two and a half years of management of MC Cartagena in the local government, at the head of the Department of Sports, it advanced clearly.
Thus, among other achievements and efforts, the call for objective, transparent and baremadas grants was published for the first time, which increased their amount by around ten percent;
the public prices of teaching activities and rental of sports facilities were reduced;
the Palacio de los Deportes opened after eleven years of waiting;
Five artificial turf soccer fields were processed;
the municipal aid to FC Cartagena was recovered and the collaboration with the futsal team was increased.
"From MC," said Segado, "we continued what we started, even if it was outside the government's tasks, from which Caostejón kicked us out, working and attending our clubs, listening to them and claiming that sports project, in each of its modalities, which Cartagena deserves. "
Breach of motions proposed by MC and approved in the Plenary
Finally, the Cartagena councilor recalled the failure of the initiatives approved in the municipal plenary session and proposed by MC Cartagena in sports.
In recent months, proposals such as the installation of different fixed points of beach volleyball on the coast of Cartagena, or the request to comply with the agreement signed for the installation of artificial turf on the soccer field World 82.
Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena