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IU-Greens has reported today that the City of Murcia offers an "advantage" to the company that manages the Verdolay club in La Alberca, allowing the location of a cafe that serves as a private business in public facilities, and has advanced to the next plenary ask councilors Finance Ubanismo and Heritage on the nature of this business, the application of the ordinances of terraces and authorizations with which account.

Herguedas explained Verdolay the sports center, a municipal and managed by administrative concession, "is located in ground equipment and it's public," so that "any service that is implemented in their facilities would be justified only to serve Users of this service in the Central time. "

However, as explained by the mayor, in the facilities of the center has built a cafe whose activity is directed to the general public since it opened the center after hours and includes a terrace which just added to the outdoor facilities held children's parties and even Christmas craft markets. "

To Herguedas, the location of a private business of its kind in a public facility "is also an administrative irregularity, a clear case of unfair competition to other businesses and favorable treatment by the City to a company that would benefit from common heritage to circumvent the law and paying taxes. "

He recalled that the sports center Verdolay receives more than one million per year as a subsidy in compensation for municipal sports develops "and are only a small part of their business", after which said that "the business is round : public land, some subsidized public activity and private busy ".

He also noted that the government team, the PP, "still has not explained when it intends to enforce the agreement in plenary for the downward revision of the contract for this and other sports centers managed the same way as the moment in municipal budgets remain the same subsidy ".

"The PP in the city of Murcia does favors to big business while harassing citizens and small businesses with more taxes and fees," concluded Herguedas.

Source: IURM