This morning the Commission of Investigation of the expropriations in the block of the Hotel Peninsular and street Cuatro Santos has been constituted in which the holders and substitutes of the same and their president have been designated.
The meeting has established, by delegation of the mayor, that the chairman of the committee is the councilman of the group Citizens, Manuel Padin.
It is important to mention that the Regulation of Organization, Operation and Legal System of Local Entities establishes that the mayor is the "born president" of the commissions, and it is he who can delegate the presidency "in any member of the Corporation".
The mayor recalled that the investigation of this commission "not only affects the expropriation of the hotel Peninsular but has been extended to the entire block," so that "they will be able to see the prices at which they were bought" Which had to be brought down.
The appointment of Padín as president has been made, according to Jose Lopez, when he understands that Citizens "has not participated in any previous government", as also has indicated the own spokesman of this municipal group.
That is why the Popular group has not been given this position as requested in Plenary, given that "they are part of the investigated," added the mayor.
The mayor has indicated that he is not part of the Commission, as part of the investigation, and that is why he "has been surprised" that the spokesman of the Popular group, Francisco Espejo, has been appointed alternate member of the same.
Asked about the deadline for the unification of the Administrative Building of San Miguel Street with the old hotel Peninsular, the mayor has said that technicians are working to see how to make the union of the administrative building of Calle San Miguel "spending as little as possible."
Apparently, as he has pointed out, there is a difference in height of a few centimeters that would have to be saved with a gentle ramp, throw the walls and fix it, and leave the plants diaphanous by pulling the inner walls, which are of thin brick, and replacing them with Glass walls as it is in the San Miguel building.
A process that the technicians have told the mayor, would not require much work.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena