Benidorm complies with the ruling that forced it to convene the 2011 sports grants

The bases for the distribution of this grant, amounting to 167.5000 euros, will be published in the next days

Benidorm City Council has begun to comply with the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJ) that forced it to draft a basis to call for subsidies in favor of associations and sports clubs for the year 2011. The councilor for Sports , Ana Pellicer, recalled that the subsidies came to court through the appeal filed by a club, which understood that the allocation of funds made that year by the City Council had not been fair and objective. In 2014 the TSJ gave the reason to the club, although the City Council presented an appeal of cassation before the Supreme Court seeking to annul that sentence that forces to put on the table aids that total more than 167,000 euros. Pellicer explained that "all the clubs of the city" will be able to present themselves to these subsidies, "whose bases will be published in the next days in the Official Gazette of the Province". The mayor has pointed out that among the requirements to be met by future beneficiaries, is to justify by a summary the programs developed in 2011. The Local Government Board has approved this Monday spending to meet these subsidies, while the last Week did the same with the bases that will govern this call. In this regard, the council has qualified that "this amount of 167,500 euros was already entered in the municipal budget of 2016, so that your payment will not force change the accounts for this year." The councilor for Sports has pointed out that "with the approval of the bases and the expenditure for these subsidies, we are complying with what the sentence marks us and, consequently, regularizing an upcoming situation." Pellicer stressed that at the time of complying with the judicial order, "the guidelines that have been used by municipal technicians" have been taken care of at all times to "correct a situation that, according to the courts, was arbitrary and unjust."