APAD's proposal is annulled for "not wanting to render accounts"
The City Council of Dénia has decided to cancel the proposal of the protective APAD for contracting the collection of animals. It does so after the negative assessment of the technicians in which points were breached in a report "demolition Man".
The government team has called the media this morning to announce the decision. One of the points where APAD would not comply with the bidding contract, and of which the people in charge of the Town Hall have been most concerned, is about hiring workers. Apparently, the protector would disagree with regard to sharing with the Administration the payroll of its employees, among other issues. "We cannot consent that workers are not discharged and do not meet salaries or schedules", declares Councilor Paco Roselló, assuring that "on this subject they will be inflexible in this or any other contract".
According to the City Council, in order to comply with the contractual obligations of the workers, APAD have requested triple the budgeted amount, 137.000 € for the 2 years of agreement, to, among other things, pay the extras at night for the workers. According to Councilman Javier Scotto, also present at the press conference, "they were required a justification with the workers discharged, but do not want to be accountable for the hiring of these". "They are minimum obligations in any public resolution with a city council", declares Scotto.
Lack of transparency
The issue of contracts with workers is only one of the different points that APAD would fail to continue with the tender. Another of the most "amazing" According to the City Council, it is the selflessness of the protector to make records of the animals collected and adopted, relying on the "It's too much load". The follow-up of adoptions is one of the claims that were carried out and that, in the interest of the public, it was decided to include in the specifications. "It was only requested that a PDF document with all this information be created and rejected, which shows a lack of seriousness and transparency", declares Scotto.
In the same way, the protector was also supported in the collection of dangerous animals to demand more money from the town hall, when from the City Council they assure that this service was already considered within the budget and, therefore, covered.
Animal disposal
One of the great concerns of dianenses has undoubtedly been the possible hiring of a company that favored the slaughter of animals. Scotto has ensured that such possibility is legally contemplated but as a last resort, after going through many processes, among which is, for example, declaring the animal as unfit for adoption and that no other center could take care of it. This would ensure that the case of a sacrifice did not occur, like all these years in which the decision has only been made in the case of diseases.
"We value your voluntary function", declares Scotto about APAD, "But you must ensure good management for these types of concessions". Therefore, so far the tender has been suspended. Now, the City Council will work to review the specifications and will take it out again in the coming months.