The Local Government Board, meeting this morning with ordinary character, under the presidency of the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, has approved a budget of 60 thousand euros in the budgets of 2018, carried over from 2017, for the remodeling and adaptation of the exhibition space Ethnographic of the Ports of Santa Bárbara.
According to the Councilor for Tourism, Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development and Litoral, Obdulia Gómez, the inclusion of this item was necessary before January 15 to qualify for a European subsidy of the LEADER program, within the Development Strategy Rural that carries out the Campoder association.
This subsidy could cover one hundred percent of the investment, up to a maximum of 50 thousand euros.
The councilor explained that the project that is intended to focus on improving the expository discourse of the numerous and interesting objects treasured by this museum, recovered by the neighbors themselves and that account for the way of life they had a few years ago. men and women from this area of ​​the Campo de Cartagena.
The action will aim to improve and condition the spaces, with panels and exhibitors, accentuating its cultural, patrimonial and tourist interest.
THE PROOF OF PLUSVALĂŤAS, A CASACIĂ“N
Within the section of reports on services and negotiated, the director of the Legal Department has reported in the Governing Board of the admission of appeal filed by the City of Cartagena before the Supreme Court, about the burden of proof of the decrease or increase in the value of the land that serves as a basis for the payment of capital gains tax in the purchase and sale of real estate.
In lower instances, the courts have imposed on the City Council the burden of proving that there has not been a decrease in the value of the land, when private parties allege this cause to exempt themselves from paying this tax.
In fact, since then the municipal technicians are responsible for issuing the corresponding reports that prove that there has been no decrease in the value of the land in the period between the purchase and sale of the property.
From the Legal Services it is considered that it is a "diabolical" burden of proof for the administration to have to prove something that the opposing party alleges.The Supreme Court before the arguments of the City of Cartagena has decided to admit the cassation in order to clarify this aspect, by means of a forthcoming sentence that will have repercussion for the rest of the city councils in the management of this tax
BILL PAYMENT
Finally, and among other matters, the Governing Board has treated the payment of five invoices for services rendered during the past month of December, which correspond to contracts that have expired and that are awaiting an upcoming tender, such as the supply of energy of last resort, low tension, maintenance of parks and gardens, public lighting and cleaning of municipal buildings.
All of them for an amount of around one million euros.
According to the intervention report, the authorization of the payment of said services will be made in a next Governing Board, due to the closing of the accounting year of 2017 and the need to consign said payments in a specific item of the extended budget of 2018.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena