Heraldo de Aragón article published today on expenditure of 200 000 euros for the preparation of the Expo 2014. Attached is the text: "Despite opposition of the majority of full and is not even clear that Zaragoza will be hosting Landscape Expo 2014, the Minister for Major Projects, Jerónimo Blasco has already been spent on the project over 200,000 euros between trips, and staff reports. For opposition groups, the attitude of Blasco constitute an infringement of successive full municipal agreements, while the government is merely exercising its powers. According to Blasco, the costs are justified and are part of the preparation work of the project presentation to the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) next June.
Charged from large projects include costs around 125,000 euros. These include 26,116.65 euros for the trip to Dubai that the City paid last September at the Chamber of Commerce. That amount has been used to pay travel and other Blasco two technicians to the United Arab Emirates to attend the meeting of the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) that gave the organizers of Expo Zaragoza Landscapes 2014. Keep in mind that when Blasco and two technicians traveled to Dubai did not work for the city of Zaragoza.
addition, the City Council spent 5,220 euros on the logo design Landscape Expo, 11,800 in the design of the website to register the mark 10,317.82 and invoices to justify various expenses (foreign travel, taxis and meals mainly). Also included an agreement with the university, which so far has involved 41,418 euros (30% of total) for reports on landscape and urban planning in the fringe this.
These amounts must be added costs in the study of alternatives, which cost 100,000 euros and have been paid with funds from the Housing Zaragoza society. The opposition is very critical to this aspect, since they detract from funds of an entity that specializes in urban regeneration and housing, especially in degraded areas.
addition, we must add the emoluments received by the controller who has signed the City Council to manage the project, Francisco Pellicer. According to Blasi, and technical higher charges about € 52,000, "less than his salary at the university." He stressed that plays an existing, so it believes that it is an extra expense.
advocated Blasco incurred these costs, which it considered "minimal." He explained that although full, with the majority votes of the opposition, has refused on several occasions the organization of the Expo, "the government has its powers." He recalled that the mayor, Juan Alberto Belloch, and said he would do all the preparatory work necessary for the project presentation to the BIE. "If not, give us time," he said. The expenses so far incurred will have to fat, and which have yet to complete much of the documentation of the master plan of the sample. Before
disbursements incurred by the government, CHA and IU each filed motions to dismiss the project and no longer allocate funds. The PP calls for the resignation of the director over his handling of reports of Zaragoza accommodation. "
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