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The council accepted the resignation of the service solid waste collection and street cleaning and interior of the "General Group" (20/04/2010)

Totana City Council recently accepted the resignation request the service of Collection of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and interior cleaning of roads and that the successful bidder "General Group" had been doing in this county since 2007, according to the Mayor, José Martínez Andreo.

The mayor, accompanied by Councillor Services and Comprehensive Maintenance of the City, Sergio Lopez, announced this decision after report promptly to this situation and the measures to be adopted in the future to hundreds of workers who are members of the staff in these services during a meeting held at the cultural center "Jail."

The company, which launched the service in February 2007 after a bidding process that was developed at the end of last term, asked yesterday check the termination of the contract.

The mayor gave a message of calm and serenity to the workers of the three services and reported that the City Council priority now is to ensure the maintenance of public service, whose duty is "General Group" to re-tendered for the service, and rights of all workers.

He attributed this to the funding problems of liquidity and they are finding municipalities and totaled more than five million debt owed to the company providing the service, which translates into an annual deficit of more than three million euros.

In this regard, said the service has a cost to city coffers each year from 4 million euros, while in this area is collected, in fees for that service, some 960,000 euros.

Martínez Andreo informed that the payment of the waste in Totana rate amounts to 36 euros a year while the regional average stands at 96 euros per year and commented that the reduction in municipal revenues necessary to reconsider the maintenance of the service.

The mayor blamed the cancellation of the contract a number of issues, most notably the difficulties the company has for finding the financing necessary to enable the economic situation continued contract with the Consistory, and the backlog of more than a year holding Consistory default to the contractor.

And the mayor he added, the causes of the resignation, the impossibility that exists with the current contractor to reach an agreement that reduces the cost of service up to 30%, as planned, because it would require a new contract.

Similarly, he cited as another reason, the state of tiredness that is the company with the constant attacks and political criticism of the opposition since his arrival in Totana, which has always placed our awarded in the "bull's-eye "with complaints to the quality plan, to be awarded the lawn service and its relationship to false speculation, among others.

The City Council was holding negotiations with the "General Group" from earlier this year, as announced, to reduce service by about 30% in order to make viable the contract and its management, and whose proposal was intended to discuss in regular full next April following the agreement with the company.

The Mayor announced that following the termination of the contract, the company "General Group" has the legal obligation to continue providing service until the start of the new tender to be held, as stated, "by way of urgency" and end with the new allocation of services to a new contractor within a period of approximately three months.

On this new bidding process, said that the City intends to maintain a quality service in line with social and economic reality of the municipality, ie providing the significant population growth that has seen the town going from 21,000 to 32,000 inhabitants in ten years and the current crisis.

Also, the mayor added that the award of the new service is without prejudice to the pocket of the residents of Totana, in conditions that we can afford without being users who pay the shortfall and additional costs caused by this situation, he added.

It also called for the resignation is "by mutual agreement" and welcomed the commitment made at this time by the company in these services, from day one, at the same time announced to be studied by the municipal legal services the possibility of bidding for new services are separate, ie the allocation of domestic cleaning service in a separate process to MSW and street cleaning.

Claimed the recovery of the historic debt that the central and regional administrations have with the municipalities that are taking the cost of many new services and recalled that the current municipal government and had to settle 7 million euros the previous contractor, inherited from previous legislatures .

Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana. Fotos: Totana.com

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