The spokesman for the municipal group of IU-Green, Antonio Penalva, has come out against the recent statements made by the sports council, Matías Rios, about the management of public swimming pool, and states "not understanding the content or the form of its latest manifestations. "
Antonio Penalva reminds the council that since the current Corporation began his career and he is in charge of the Department of Sports "pool remains closed its doors without providing any service, which has become, at least this time, in a very expensive but useless infrastructure, we have continued to pay every year of its cost, facilities are built to provide services to citizens, not to win elections, and it is shocking when you try sassy chest shows that management has maintained a public pool closed for three years. "
In connection with the recent statements by sports council says Penalva "that have surprised me by his aggressive tone, unusual in this council, and frankly difficult to understand."
The position of IU-Greens, according to the spokesman ecosocialista is clear and has always been the same in relation to the pool: "the only chance of having the operation in Cieza is heated through its governance, and we kept from the outset and, as so often happened, time has proven us right, but Mr. Matías Rios should not be surprising that we consider essential, and prior to any act of hiring any kind, a study viability of this facility, which is providing rigorous manner the costs to the City taking over its management, predictable income, whether it will be profitable or will be operating deficit, and in the latter case to much would the deficit that the city should take. "
Curiously, in the opinion of Penalva, "a public manager criticize the opposition because it prompts serious feasibility studies are made before launch public services."
According to the councilor, "if Cieza popular government had accepted this reality from the beginning the current situation may be different, and perhaps the indoor pool had not spent more time closed than open since its inauguration, the infrastructure was built as was at the time of 'tying dogs sausages', without doing a feasibility plan without seriously consider whether the operation could be maintained over time, the private sector twice fled after taking because the service contracts, the Apparently, and I say apparently because there is no feasibility study is intrinsically deficient. "
Moreover, "it is undisputed that the lack of operation of the pool has produced a series of damage to the facilities now cost the public purse money, and certainly IU-Green has not told the truth when he publicly denounced this data because it is true and irrefutable whatever the origin of the funds for settlement, because, ultimately, it is public money and money from the citizens. "
Penalva finally understood that "charge against the opposition, kill the messenger, is a recurrent strategy in certain public offices when they have arguments to defend management, and sincerely regret that as a councilor Matthias finished falling into this, especially if we note that the problem of the heated pool has its origin in a management staff that is not his, but that of previous maintainers, but it is their political responsibility to an outlet or another the issue of indoor pool, and should do so soon as possible. "
Source: IU-verdes Cieza