Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Porto, Gaia and Gondomar not sign contract for EU funds for the cities – publico


 
         
                 

                         
                     

                 

 
 

The Port House will not sign this Tuesday, the contract of the Strategic Plan for Urban Development (PEDU). The ceremony is scheduled for Europarque in Santa Maria da Feira, and the Porto president, Rui Moreira, was even one of the guest speakers. But the mayor will not be present. At issue is the fact that the contract has not been updated for traded with the Minister of Planning and Infrastructure, Pedro Marques. There are other municipalities in the same situation as Gaia or Gondomar, and the responsibility lies with the Commission for Coordination and Regional Development North (CCDRN) not secured in time that contracts already reflected the new values ​​negotiated by the municipalities individually.

When the Coordination Committee and Northern Development (CCDRN) informed the municipalities the value had fallen to them in the PEDU, Rui Moreira warned that he would not sign the contract, considering that the value had fallen to porto – 26.5 million – equivalent to the “theft of the century”. Other municipalities in the Porto Metropolitan Area (AMP) also demonstrated against the values ​​that had been allocated, which led eventually to individual negotiations.

In the case of Porto, the result of talks with Minister Pedro Marques resulted in the promise of an increase in the amount of 5.7 million euros, an increase of around 20%, for the social area. Rui Moreira accepted this value. But the document was ready to be signed this afternoon in Europarque, did not correspond to new funds -. 32.2 million

Ministry of Planning Source confirms that the port will not sign the contract today, because “an administrative delay in the area of ​​CCDRN”. “The Port House will not sign today. There was a slip of administrative deadlines and procedures by the CCDRN, “added the same source. The city of Porto is not the only one affected by this case, so that other AMP cameras will not also sign the document this afternoon, contrary to what was expected. These are the municipalities of Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto and Gondomar.

Speaking taken by the workshop page of the city, Rui Moreira explained that on Monday last spoke to Minister Pedro Marques, confirming him that would not be present at the ceremony and would not sign the contract, because of the alleged failure of CCDRN. “While [the warning] is not published will not sign, we are not able to sign a pact that has not been established what are our legitimate rights,” said the mayor, on the morning of Tuesday, on the sidelines of a ceremony in the camera. Rui Moreira said he was convinced that the resolution of the impasse is “a matter of time” and that everything will be sorted. “The CCDR should have posted this warning on Friday, could have it published yesterday, did not, on that basis, I will not sign anything.”, He assured

CCDRN should have published a contract further to allow the updating of the amounts agreed between the municipalities and the government, but it did not. The ministry, as Moreira, believes that the case is not closed, and that as soon as the documents are updated, signing with Porto and other cities this afternoon did not close the question of PEDU will occur.

Asked by PUBLIC whether this failure CCDRN could have consequences for this body, the spokesman of the ministry said it would not comment.

                     
 
 
                 


             

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