Councilman Juan Vicente Larrosa maintains that charging for the use of football fields will force many local teams to abandon the competition or to look for options in other municipalities of the Region given their difficulty in generating resources and criticism that the announced commission has not even been constituted. six months to amend the facility use ordinance
The problem is still there and the affected clubs, a total of 15, of which 11 have base teams, do not know how to deal with it.
There are more than 2,000 players who are harmed by the EFP clubs Puente Tocinos, EF Corvera, Sangonera Sports Center, CD Atlético Barqueros, CA Cabezo de Torres, ED Javalí Viejo La Ñora, EF El Raal, CD Alberca, Montecasillas FC El Progreso, AD Cuna del Belén, CD Plus Ultra, AD Alquerías, R Murcia City, CD El Esparragal and CAP Ciudad de Murcia.
The City is already passing the settlement of bills when a few months ago and after a motion presented by the PSOE agreed to create a commission to amend the Rules for Public Price for Provision of Services and Rental of Municipal Sports Facilities of Murcia.
That happened in the Plenary of the month of January and today, six months later, not even that commission has been constituted.
The Socialist Group asked the Consistory to modify this ordinance so that the soccer teams, also those that do not compete in national category, could use the fields for free, since otherwise they would surely be forced to leave the competition.
The proposal of the PSOE was raised after the City Council communicated to Murcia clubs that were active in the categories of Regional Preferential, First Autonomic and Second Autonomic that had to pay amounts that were around 5,000 euros a year to develop their activity in equipment of local ownership .
The lump sum was 66,000 euros, "an amount perfectly assumable by the City of Murcia," as pointed out then Larrosa.
"The councilman Felipe Coello, in his two and a half years of management at the head of the Department of Sports and Health, has not applied the rate to the football teams of Murcia and now, once the season has begun, they will charge them without notice a money that will force many of those teams to leave the competition or to carry out their training in other municipalities in which they will be charged a lower cost for the use of the facilities ", explained the Socialist councilor after having talked with representatives of the affected clubs, in which the announcement made by Coello caused a stir and uncertainty given the scarcity of resources to survive.
So much so that there were protest measures taking advantage of the dispute of their parties.
Once half a year has passed since the plenary session in which the issue was addressed the PSOE, which calls for a moratorium, has asked councilor Felipe Coello when he will constitute the aforementioned commission and this in writing focuses on an agreement with Citizens to subsidies 2017/2018, which clubs can not access by not having paid the cost of using facilities.
Source: PSOE Murcia