The councillor Susana Mendoza Carreño said that the municipal government was unaware of the funding project
While the businessman Manuel Diaz Preciado, owner of Teatro Vallarta, yesterday announced the likely closure and dismantling of the place due to a lack of official support, the councilor Susana Mendoza Carreño, collegiate of the Culture Commission, said in the same press conference that the municipal council and the municipal attorney were unaware of the financing project.
You say that Fandango was presented to the plenary City Council, but that is not true, I can assure you, let me tell you, the municipal attorney does not know you, the attorney does not know the Fandango project, nobody has presented the project, I believe that there is a confusion and a lack of communication and I'll tell you why, I think that when you gave the project to the Congress and presented it to the City Hall of Puerto Vallarta, it was to another administration, because to this one there hasn't been a presentation of Fandango.
Before this response, the businessman retorted and said that he could demonstrate with all certainty that emails have been delivered to the attorney; that this administration, Ramón Guerrero, the municipal president, and the attorney, signed in acceptance that they got the emails, but right now the attorney does not want to sign.
THE PROJECT WAS PRESENTED
That happened during a press conference held at the Teatro Vallarta where Manuel Díaz Preciado explained that as a company they presented a cultural project to Conaculta which through the House of Representatives got the approval for a budget for Fandango, with which it is intended to benefit the community in several ways, situation that was explained to the municipal authority, she said. It employs more than 60 families and benefits the hotel industry, which allows it to get preferential prices, favoring guests and children of Puerto Vallarta with a cultural education.
Conaculta does not give us money, we are a corporation, this is not a sin. So we talked to City Hall and made them see the benefits that they get, that we are presenting a project that benefits the city, and the City accepted. There are signatures from the attorney and the mayor accepting the project. That money is for the Fandango project. The resource that is labeled for Fandango is an order from Congress, and if that appeal fails, Puerto Vallarta is not going to get a single peso in the three year term, in the area of culture.
In this sense, Manuel Diaz blamed the municipal attorney, Roberto Ascencio Castillo, for stopping the progress of the project.
You chose a mayor who has an attorney in its staff, who is the legal representative, but the man did not want to be responsible for carrying out the project.
He added: The money goes to a special account opened by the municipality for the mentioned project and the City Hall attorney is responsible for monitoring that the project is met in a timely manner, but that is what the attorney refuses to monitor. There are 60 families who will not eat and there is a theater that will close. Vallarta is going to be left without a theater and the people in charge of culture don't even care.
Diaz Preciado said that this Friday is the last day to submit projects requiring federal resources and challenged those present to show one project that had been made for that purpose.
Documentaion to Prove That Puerto Vallarta City Council was Notified.
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NOBODY DID ANYTHING
No one in Puerto Vallarta asked for a peso, nobody had a project, I challenge anyone to show me a project that has been submitted. If not a single peso got to Puerto Vallarta it is because no one asked for anything, the money that is coming to Vallarta, comes because Fandango asked for it.
And he took advantage of the presence of the Councilor for Culture, Humberto Gómez Arévalo, to inform him that his position is inconsistent with the argument that the funds are for a private company, even though they also pay taxes.
It is noteworthy that the Teatro Vallarta had an investment of 120 million pesos and that it is the only theater that has existed in the modern history of the city. Due to various economic, social and cultural factors, its subsistence has not been possible, motive for which Díaz Preciado invited the civil society to create a city council to adopt the Teatro Vallarta: he also said that he has the support of the mayor and he has also requested the support of the citizenry.
[readon1 url="http://vallartaopina.net/2013/10/25/es-una-lastima-que-vallarta-no-tenga-espacios-culturales"]Source: Vallarta Opina Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]
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