No 987 Monday 4th - Sunday 10th September 2023
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TORREVIEJA MAYOR IMPOSES HEAVY FINE ON WASTE MANAGEMENT CONTRACTOR, ACCIONA
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ollowing last week’s revelations by the opposition parties in Torrevieja about the state of contractual compliance of the multi million euro waste disposal contract, documenting the appalling service that the residents have to put up with, PSOE spokesperson Bárbara Soler invited everyone to the town hall on Friday to observe a meeting where the matter would formally be discussed, the contract analysed, and the failure reports scrutinised.
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The result of that meeting call, and the public pressure on the town hall, is that after just 14 months of audit-proven poor performance, the mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, has finally sprung into action, and will now financially penalise the contractor, Acciona, to the tune of almost a million euro. On Thursday, the day before the planned PSOE-led meeting, Dolón signed the resolution that will apply a reduction of 548,000 euro in the billing submitted to the town hall by Acciona for the month of July, for the contract that began in June 2022, and which swallows up a quarter of the entire municipal budget, representing a 27% reduction on the monthly cost established by the contract, which amounts to 2,030,000 euro, and so the company will now only receive 1,482,283 euro, the true value of the work the town hall believes has been carried out. Of course, the service has been defective since day 1, and although a penalty is appropriate, it still means the company has provided an inferior service for their full monthly fee for 13 months, other than an additional penalty for subsequent deficiencies of 319,000 euro.
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