United Left-Greens has denounced today lawlessness in some contracts by the City of Cartagena, and more specifically by the Department of Culture, for festivals organized in our town, if the Sea of ​​Music.
So, Councillor Cayetano Molto Jaime has been reported that, after consulting the file relating to this event last year 2014 glaring irregularities are detected as is the overcoming of 18,000 euros provided in the Rules of Implementation of the Budget as the maximum amount for which you can contract freely, without contest, a councilor Area.
In the case referred to, not only held such recruitment but both are subcontracted, irregularly shaped, entire management of a concert with a broker, which is responsible for the settlement of VAT collection Entries sold the 4,000 offered for sale for an amount between 25 and 30 euros, retail management of these inputs, SGAE, light, sound, hotel, catering, chemical toilets, bar service, insurance and security.
Yes, getting by the City of 18,755 euros for hiring the performing artists.
It is therefore an administrative concession without mediate any of the formulas provided in the legislation.
Similarly, the formation of the left claims that although it is logical and normal for the signing of artists is made through contacts with their representatives and those coming from abroad is normal delegating to one of our country, which does not what it is is that for recruiting groups or Spanish singers dual representation is used, unjustifiably inflating costs through a local broker.
In this, the most blatant case may be to Crudo Pimento, despite being de Murcia and have a representative there, we used a local broker to conduct recruitment, with the logical increase in fees.
Another aspect of managing expenses festival is hiring private rooms, Nuevo Teatro Circo case, instead of using public spaces (rooms El Batel and Cultural Center Ramón Alonso Luzzy), for the section of La Mar Film, which has cost more than 11,000 euros to the municipal coffers.
It is also noteworthy that the City Council invested large amounts of hiring technical elements that pose a much higher cost than if the property were acquired through the mandatory contract.
Not forgetting the catering service, with over 10,000 euros cost, without specifying its content bills, people served, and so on.
Therefore, United Left-Greens requested through a motion that the City agreed, in relation to the realization of festivals, in all cases the legal and accounting control legality of all contractual acts is envisaged to be adopted by the Department of Culture, direct management where possible recruitment of artists through their representatives, without intermediaries, the use of public spaces and rooms facing the private car, forecasting acquisition of equipment and instruments of Use continued to avoid the cost of rents continued, minimization protocol regulating the allocation entries in the field of City Hall and the detailed requirements in shaping catering bills.
Source: IU-verdes Cartagena