The Tías City Council has seized six machines and vehicles for cleaning streets and beaches, which should be "by municipal ownership contract", but are registered in the name of the company Salimpa, from which the Council seized the service. The Council received notification of the first seizure proceedings against the company in 2009, and the last one arrived "a month and a half ago" and affects the machine for cleaning the beaches, which cannot be used.
Despite the fact that this machinery is seized, the City Council has assured that "no service has been discontinued due to these seals" and the cleaning of the beach, for example, is being done with other machinery, although it is not specifically for that use.
In addition, the government group has once again lashed out at the previous PSOE management. In this sense, the Councilor for Cleaning, Francisco Javier Aparicio, has recalled that, "according to the extension signed in 2001 by the former mayor José Juan Cruz with Salimpa, all vehicles and machinery for street and beach cleaning destined for the municipality would be owned by the City Council".
However, he insisted that the Canary Islands Advisory Council reported in an opinion that "all those vehicles, paid for with public money from Tías, are not in the name of the City Council, and the worst thing is that many of them are seized".
Thus, according to a report commissioned by the mayor, Pancho Hernández, the executive collector of the General Treasury of Social Security "ordered the seizure of present and future credits pending payment to the company Salimpa S.L., to cover the amount of 612,262.38 euros". This seizure order was notified to the City Council on October 16, 2009.
Debts with Social Security
According to that same report, the total amount of seizures received by the Tías City Council corresponding to the company Salimpa, for debts with the General Treasury of Social Security, salary payments and tax agency, from March 30, 2007 to December 2009, "amounted to 2,057,625.24 euros, with 2,623,350.55 euros being the total of the seizures received by the City Council and pending payment in the name of Salimpa., S.L.".
In addition, a legal report from December 14, 2009 states that "many of the vehicles assigned to the service of the municipality of Tías are registered in the Traffic administration with reservation of ownership in favor of possible creditors of Salimpa". In addition, it is stated that the City Council had already paid "during the period of seizure of the service different amounts to avoid the sealing of essential vehicles for the service".
"This leads to the deduction that the entity Salimpa, S.L. maintains debts of a significant, although imprecise, amount, with different suppliers and with the companies that have supplied the vehicles with which it provides the service for which it is the concessionaire, with pending payment of installments of the rental or leasing contracts signed with them", the report indicates.
The Councilor for Cleaning has also asked the PSOE to "say how the Tías City Council has paid for the trucks and machinery of the garbage service, which are not public today and, in addition, are seized".