The Information Committee of Finance and Interior, held this morning under the chairmanship of the council of the area, Jose Cabezas, has ruled favorably on the designation of an item in the budgets carried over from this year to address the opening and operation of the Auditorium and Palacio Municipal de Congresos, amounting to 627,000 euros.
The opinion has counted the votes in favor of the government team and the abstention of PSOE and Citizen Movement.
As explained by the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, this is the amount required for the Auditorium and Convention Center will become a shock ecnómico, generating new business and congress tourism.
In this sense Montero recalled this year already reached 20 conferences, whose participants have begun to make reservations in hotels.
The works are now almost finished and handed to the City Council in early April.
The idea is that the first event can be made ​​as early as June, auqnue yet to be put out to tender the management of the Auditorium, which will be forthcoming through public competition.
Councillor for Culture has announced that in the next full City will approve the specifications for the procurement of this service and has justified the budget forecast of 627,000 euros to meet any losses that they initially have this type of infrastructure, although trend must be self-financing.
Just another issue that the committee gave a favorable opinion was the final approval of the economic activities in the Auditorium and Congress Palace in free competition, which voted against the PSOE and Citizen Movement.
This case, already approved by Parliament, has been subjected to public exposure during the period of one month, registering the only claim of socialist municipal group felt that the audience should be run by municipal officials themselves.
The government team has been dismissed based on the technical report, which city officials have been involved in various areas, and recommended as best means hiring a company specializing in the management of shows, events and infrastructure such .
Finally, the information committee has unanimously given the green light to the final approval of the project for economic activities, in free competition, to perform in the municipal laboratory, and which would allow for municipal water analysis commissioned by individuals.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena