As he explained by the Councillor of Finance, Antonio Ignacio Martínez-Real, in a press release, the grant amounting to 22,143 euros was awarded to the City of Cieza the March 13, 2013 by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and financed a school program fully denominado'El Mystery of the Rocks.
The Levantine Rock Art 'to teach students the historical heritage.
The statement said that throughout 2013, the Consistory did not make the subsidized activity, solicitandoel previous government team an extension of the period of execution was granted until May 3, 2014. The activity was hired on April 1, 2014 the company ECOPATRIMONIO SLU Projects and Services, which conducted the activity, "but the company payments are not made until August 2014, after the deadline for justification of the subsidy, causing its loss and the obligation to return to Ministry subsidized the 22,143 euros plus interest payments amounting to 1589.82 euros. "
Martinez-Real says that "the Popular Party intentionally concealed this situation and did not handle the return loss hiding this aid until after the elections, which led to an increase in the original amount by the interest generated by the delay ".
The mayor argues that "this is a result of the disastrous management of the Popular Party, which inexplicably hurried deadlines for the project and finally breached the extension asked themselves, losing the subsidy, which cost us 23,732 euros ciezanos and has subvencionesque other endangered today are being processed with different administrations ".
Councilman Hacienda concludes by stating that "comes out another episode of mismanagement of the Popular Party in the stage of municipal government that has generated an impairment of the municipal coffers."
It adds that "ciezanos not deserve to be deceived in this way, and they should know that there are more people involved in the mismanagement that has cost a lot of money to the town of Cieza, as some councilors of the Popular Party, now in opposition, then exercised responsibilities of government were partners of this misrule ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cieza