“There has not been, and I say it sharply, there has not been a single lag euro or a single day of gap in the work of the Huerva.” Thus the Urban Planning Minister of the City of Zaragoza responded, Victor Serrano, To the news published on Tuesday by Heraldo de Aragón in which it was confirmed that the second phase of regeneration of the Huerva was going to cost 7 million euros more than expected. Although, yes, confirmed that “the municipal budget reflected an amount that has currently required a credit modification.”
“One thing is a lag on site and another thing is that there was a budget forecast that did not reflect the reality of that project. They will ask why and it is very simple. When the budget was carried out, the project had to be done without having the project because if it had not been able to tender. We made that forecast without having the project that was approved in May,” said Serrano.
The second phase of regeneration of the Huerva is the most ambitious, will begin in September and will turn that area into a large green corridor with five new parks, the renewal of three others, new pedestrian paths, native trees and the urban integration of eight streets of the environment. As Serrano has contributed, the tenders of the technical assists and the works of the two phases had an amount of 9,053,000 euros and the awards have been carried out by 7,233,099.93 euros. “There has been almost 20% savings on phase 1, about the expected,” said Serrano.
The works of phase 2 had a cost of 21,926,194.27 euros and have been awarded, as confirmed by 20,341,541.73 euros. “The work of the Huerva is a work that is being invested below the tenders of the projects definitely awarded on site. Talking that there has been a gap in a work that has been awarded below the budget and that it goes on a schedule, from my point of view, does not honor reality. For example, of all life it has been understood that a work is outdated when it occurs for example with the Castellón high It has taken another year to execute and cost a million euros more than what the tender said, “he explained.
Finally, he has warned that from the budgetary point of view “it is not that it would be infected is that it was done without having an approved project, without knowing exactly how much it would cost. A first station was made that has later suffered in the final project also some modification. Precisely because in the public information procedure there were neighbors who wanted us to take advantage of this action to fix any of its streets and have also been included,” he added.
“I think we are a government that is very responsible for each penny of euro invested in the works of our city and in fact these years we have broken an investment record in the city. You cannot talk that no work has suffered budget lag. It is not so,” he acknowledges.
