The government announces an extraordinary plenary session to address the acceptance of a state concession on the Levante's front line

After the ordinary plenary session held on Monday, the local government, chaired by Toni Pérez, has called an extraordinary plenary session on Thursday to address the acceptance of a state concession in favor of the City Council of a plot located on Levante's first line, in which the local administration plans to build a public park and a Marine classroom.

The mayor has adopted this measure after the opposition has prevented with its vote to debate this proposal of acceptance in the plenary session held today by not supporting the urgency of the motion. In this regard, clarify that the matter has been raised as an extraordinary issue, since the proposal was signed last Friday, two days after the ordinary plenary session was convened.

The mayor has indicated that after what happened in this ordinary session, "the government has studied the possible administrative formulas" to unblock this issue and "the only alternative is to convene an extraordinary plenary session."

Pérez explained that the proposal and all the accompanying documentation was sent by the General Secretary to all the members of the corporation at last Friday, so "they have had three days to study this matter". He has also detailed that "having ten days to respond to the letter of the General Directorate of Sustainability of Coast and Sea" the optimal thing was to introduce this matter in today's plenary by urgency. A letter in which Costas "accesses the concession requested by agreement of the municipal plenary in December 2017", and that this state agency sets at "15 years extendable to another 15 years and with a zero fee for the City Council".

The mayor has expressed his "perplexity and sadness" before the refusal of the opposition to discuss this matter despite the hurry of deadlines and being "a very longed for by Benidorm" and that affects "the general interest of the city " Paraphrasing 'El Quijote', Pérez has indicated that his government "is not in politics to 'undo wrong things', but to do things for Benidorm and manage them", and added that the deadline to respond to the writing of Costas ends next Friday , November 30.

Pérez remarked that the proposal "is not a political motion", but that it determines "if people of Benidorm want to take the concession of that plot" for public use and that it "does not fall into private hands as it has been in the last two decades."

He also recalled that, based on the Law and as it happens with a good number of urgent motions taken to the full session by the opposition, this issue could have been raised today as an extraordinary office without having previously communicated to the rest of the corporation. Something that has not happened since "all the documentation and reports were sent three days before the plenary session," giving the members of the corporation time to study the matter.

Chronology

In December 2017, the plenary agreed to request the State to grant this parcel located at Avenida de Madrid, number 35, accompanying the request for a project to install on this floor a public park and a classroom of the sea from which to make known and disseminate Benidorm's seafaring past. By then, the City Council had spent two years in talks with the Ministry to achieve this concession, for which "not a single paper had been moved" in the previous legislature.
On November 16, the General Directorate of Sustainability of Coast and Sea sent a letter to the City Council setting the terms of that concession in favor of the City Council.
The Procurement Department issued the corresponding report on November 22, and the next day it was transferred to the Mayor's Office, proceeding immediately to the drafting and signing of the corresponding proposal, not having produced a delay in the processing.
That same Friday, and once the proposal was signed late in the morning, the General Secretariat sent all the documentation to the members of the corporation, pointing out that the matter would be taken to the plenary as an extraordinary office.
The City Council must respond to the acceptance proposal next Friday. Otherwise, Costas will give the file terminated.