The secretary of the Tías City Council assures in a report of March 25 that he is not aware that the sentence has been appealed by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands by which it is obliged to pay 3.3 million euros to the owners of two plots of land in Puerto del Carmen of about 500 square meters that were expropriated without compensation. The sentence was from March 2010 and the City Council hid it for a year, according to ACN Press.
Fernando Pérez-Utrilla points out that it is not recorded that "the resolution has become final or the amount that is currently subject to lis pendens, warning once again of dysfunctions in legal matters."
This report is added to that of the auditor, who acknowledged that it is "practically impossible" for the City Council to face the payment of that amount because "there is no liquidity for it". Last month, in a plenary session requested by the opposition, the mayor, José Juan Cruz (PSOE) assured that he is considering other alternatives, such as changing the ordinance of the area to allow building or making an exchange with the owners. Cruz assured that the City Council had appealed to the Supreme Court.
The secretary's report reproaches the City Council that there is no legal defense contract but "a plethora of minor contracts" and that the situation should be regularized, either by hiring an external lawyer or creating its own legal service or signing an agreement with another Administration to handle municipal legal matters.
The owners made allegations to the municipal budgets to include the payment of their debt. The secretary's report says that "as long as the allegations are not estimated or rejected, the general budgets of the Tías City Council cannot be definitively approved", which have been initially approved, and that the one-month period to resolve the claims "has been widely exceeded".
ACN Press
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