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| The Murcia City Council has implemented measures to support hoteliers | The spokesperson for the Popular Municipal Group, Rebeca Pérez, has asked Jesús Jiménez, president of Hostemur, to “dedicate his efforts to defend the hospitality sector that is not going through good times.

From the City Council we have worked from minute one of this crisis to help them in everything we have been able to and have requested and that is unquestionable ”.Pérez had to remind Jiménez of the “multiple meetings that we have had with Hostemur, both the Mayor and the councilors, the last one on November 16 with my colleague Pedro García Rex but also with José Guillén, with Felipe Coello, with Juan Fernando Hernández and myself.

All these meetings have always been operational and different decisions have been made in them ”."The City Council has always sought the general interest and not the particular or personal interest," explained PérezRegarding the collection of receipts for the occupation rate of the public road for tables and chairs, the Councilor for Citizen Security and Economic Management, Eduardo Martínez-Oliva has explained that "of the second semester of 2020, only 4 months have been charged –When the terraces have been closed for two weeks- and these four months have been charged at 50%, as approved in plenary, so the reduction is very substantial.

Those are facts, the rest demagoguery ”."In addition, the plenary session last October agreed that the hoteliers will pay nothing to install their terraces in the first half of 2021, regardless of whether they are open or closed.

This is in addition to the fact that only the minimum is charged for water and garbage when bars and restaurants are closed ”, recalled Martínez-Oliva.Regarding the IBI, the councilor explained that "the Federation of Municipalities has issued a report in which it is indicated that there is a principle of legal reserve whereby municipalities cannot act on certain taxes."Martínez-Oliva has indicated that “without going any further last week it was agreed that Vía Pública articulates a procedure that will allow hoteliers to install stoves on the terraces in an agile way to offer a rapid response to the sectorLikewise, “employment aids for the amount of one million euros have been approved, permits have been granted for the installation of terraces in parking lots and gardens, and the activity license has been adapted so that leisure activity venues will become serve with tables without music ”.

Source: PP Murcia