Toni Pérez assures that "it is not logical or loyal" that the SPTCV does not appear in the cultural center to show the facilities

The mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, has considered today that it is "neither logical nor loyal" that the Thematic Projects Society of the Valencian Community (SPTCV) has not appeared today to show the facilities of the cultural centre of the city, after having been summoned last week by the first mayor and not having officially declined to attend the appointment.

Toni Pérez has assured that "we have come thinking that these facilities would come to open us which, according to his version, are perfect to deliver and for us to occupy them". “I don't know what prevents someone from the SPTCV from being here at this door, which is sealed. If the work is ready to enter, it is as easy as opening the door and having the technicians inform us, and we can start using these facilities, which is what Benidorm wants”.

In this regard, he has specified that "it is up to the municipal technicians to analyze all these facilities in a very powerful infrastructure in which air conditioning, electricity, accessibility, general state of the work, elevators, etc. must be addressed." Based on these technical reports, "the mayor will say 'we are going to receive' if that is the case."

Toni Pérez has underlined the desire to "furnish" the facilities and that they begin to function as soon as possible and house the planned services: the municipal Music and Dance conservatories, whose directors have also come today to the door of the cultural centre. "There are already families and people who want to study music and dance or continue their studies who should be able to visit the facilities normally in the middle of the enrollment process." It would have been the optimal time to get to know these facilities even before the City Council equates them”.

The mayor recalled that "about to start June, there are already two years of delay" that accumulates the first phase of the cultural centre "on the signed document and we know that there are issues that have not been addressed." Likewise, he has added that the City Council is assuming expenses of these infrastructures not yet received.

Toni Pérez has stressed that "the two institutions have accredited who is the technical part that must meet" to specify the terms of delivery of the building and has clarified that "they attribute to me that we have not convened a bilateral commission, we respond that taking into account the bilateral nature of that supposed commission, what I can say is that they have not called me”.

After demanding a technical visit to the facilities after today's "disappointment", the mayor has been very critical of the attitude of the general director of the SPTCV, Antonio Rodes, and has summoned the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, to consider "if Mr Rodes is a valid interlocutor" as a result of the content and tone used in his latest statements to refer to Benidorm and its City Council. Thus, he has suggested to Ximo Puig that he appoint an interlocutor who "provides solutions", and has asked him for "attention" in this matter because "the position we are experiencing does not seem to me to be either logical, or loyal, or normal".

He has also summoned the president of the Generalitat Valenciana to "sit down and talk about the second phase" of the construction of the cultural centre, which, based on the agreement, the parties should have begun to specify when the work of the first phase began. Toni Pérez has recalled that this second phase "should be definitive" and include all the services and endowments agreed upon given the economic situation of the regional administration at that time.

Since then, the mayor recalled, the SPTCV has sold Benidorm's public property land located in the Terra Mítica PEDUI "for a value of 24 million". “In several communications, we have asked to sit down and talk to see where that money was invested”, and see the possibility that part of those funds would be reinvested in the city of Benidorm itself since the sale of a heritage of all in this city the Generalitat Valenciana has received this extraordinary income; until today we have not received a response” concluded Pérez.