The Cabildo's report points to "material errors" in the "overpayments"

The Tinajo plenary session does not reassure the opposition and the PSOE affirms that "it does not feel informed" about the documents requested by the Prosecutor's Office

"We have not felt informed, because he simply told us what the Prosecutor's Office had requested, which had already appeared in the media." This is how the ... has spoken

May 2 2013 (17:52 WEST)
The Tinajo plenary session does not reassure the opposition and the PSOE affirms that "it does not feel informed" about the documents requested by the Prosecutor's Office
The Tinajo plenary session does not reassure the opposition and the PSOE affirms that "it does not feel informed" about the documents requested by the Prosecutor's Office

"We have not felt informed, because he simply told us what the Prosecutor's Office had requested, which had already appeared in the media." This is how the PSOE councilor, Belén Morales, spoke about the plenary session that took place this Thursday at the Tinajo Town Hall, where the mayor, Jesús Machín, had to explain the documentation that the Prosecutor's Office has requested regarding the contracts of "six workers and the 2012 payrolls of two employees".

"The mayor says we have to wait for the Prosecutor's Office to rule," Morales indicated. The opposition has asked Jesús Machín if he intended to issue an internal report that "says whether there is knowledge of any irregularity or error", but the mayor "is not going to do anything, in principle".

The opposition has asked Machín if he could give his opinion on what could have happened with these contracts and payrolls, in case "there is any indication that some type of irregularity has been committed in this regard", but the mayor "said he was not going to comment."

"Material error" in the overpayments

In the plenary session, the report issued by the General Secretariat of the Cabildo of Lanzarote on "possible undue payments in the municipal payrolls" was also reported, a fact that the former secretary-intervenor of the Tinajo Town Hall had warned about in a report. The socialist councilor has assured that the Cabildo's report says that "with the documentation provided by the Town Hall, plus the allegation made by a worker, it is understood that it could have been a material error."

"It means that the final remuneration they received was the same, but the concept was wrong. It was in the concept of a specific supplement, which must be approved in plenary, and it had to be in productivity, which is enough with a resolution from the Mayor's Office," the socialist councilor explained.

Belén Morales has also pointed out that the Cabildo's Secretariat considers that "a report should be requested from the company that makes the payrolls." "We have asked the mayor if he has requested it and he said yes, that he would notify us. The current secretary-intervenor is also doing an internal report," she said.

Tourist Centers Canon

On the other hand, the plenary session also debated this Thursday the agreement between the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the Tinajo Town Hall for the payment of the canon to be paid by the Tourist Centers. In point, according to Belén Morales, it has been "curious." "We were going to pronounce ourselves based on a document we had, which was the Cabildo's proposal to the Tinajo Town Hall. But the mayor says that that document is confused, that it is not the agreement he reached with the president," she explained.

Faced with this situation, the PSOE has asked that this issue be left on the table, but the mayor "has voted that the plenary delegated to his figure the negotiation with the president of the Cabildo." "The mayor will have to read the proposal and see if it is correct or not. How else is he going to sign an agreement that we don't know what it contains. He was asking us for a vote of confidence when approving this, but we have not given it to him," the socialist explained.

The PSOE does not understand why Machín assures that this document "is not real", when it is "the proposal" of the Cabildo. In it, according to Morales, the Cabildo proposes to pay Tinajo a "fixed fee in 2013 and 2014 of 550,000 euros", and it could also be read "that in some way the Town Hall was going to renounce 500,000 euros of debt based on some investments that the Cabildo was going to make in the municipality." But of these investments "there is no record, not a single writing, no investment project, no financial file," warns the councilor.

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