The Socialists announce an agreement with the construction company without assuming important deficiencies and compromising the definitive opening of the installation
After the meeting held yesterday by Ana Belén Castejón and the Temporary Union of Companies (UTE) in charge of the construction of the Palace of Sports of Cartagena, the City will have to face the payment of the important deficiencies that this facility still carries.
In this sense, the councilor and head of Sports of MC, Ricardo Segado, has lamented that "this decision of the socialists severely compromises the final opening."
"Castejón announces that it has reached an agreement with the UTE when the only thing it has achieved is that it repairs the central court, desisting from claiming the remaining pending issues."
Outstanding deficiencies worth more than four million euros
The deficiencies with which the Palacio de los Deportes continues are multiple: the pool and its disastrous separation and isolation from the rest of the facility;
the hearth of the track, uneven in many of its points or the lack of markers and railings.
"There is no political will to claim all these expenses, amounting to more than four million euros as reported by municipal technicians in 2015, and now will have to be borne by the municipal budget," said Segado.
In the same way, the mayor has stressed that these needs "should be known by Castejón, or not, since we do not appreciate in their draft of the draft Budgets
nothing to meet these urgent and necessary expenses to open the installation for good ".
MC's work with the municipal technicians
Likewise, Ricardo Segado affirmed that the Palace of Sports is now open "thanks to the work of MC and the municipal technicians."
"The only thing that Castejón has done is, to our surprise, return to take a photo of postureo".
This photo, as explained by the head of Sports of the Cartagena training, "should have been given much earlier, because the request for a meeting with the UTE was carried out by the Sustainable Development area last November."
In this regard, the councilor has reported that this meeting has occurred more than ten months late since the access of Castejón to the Mayor, while he recalled that only a few hours before its opening, with the dispute of the league match between the Plastics Romero Cartagena and ElPozo on October 7, 2017, the Socialist City Hall itself tried to prevent it.
Definitive opening of the Palace of Sports
With the aim of achieving the complete and definitive opening of the Palacio de los Deportes, "MC will continue working and will take as fundamental premise for the 2018 Budget, if the PSOE gets to do the homework and approves them before the end of the year, an economic departure to rectify these deficiencies as soon as possible, claiming at the same time, before the appropriate way, that said expenses are borne by the UTE, responsible for executing the works poorly ".
Finally, Segado pointed out that "we will demand this from the socialist misrule while we expect, nevertheless, that the final opening will take its course, although the latest news will make us doubt a lot".
Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena