PSOE Xàbia: “Without a maintenance contract, monitors, lifeguards or staff it is impossible to open the pool”

The socialist PSPV-PSOE opposition has released a statement this afternoon after the extraordinary plenary session this morning (Thursday) in which it claims that there is no reason why the municipal swimming pool remains closed to the public.

“No explanation, no report, no management in 10 months and a lot of rushing from February 5, when the socialist municipal representatives requested the convening of an extraordinary plenary session to find out once and for all why the pool is not open. This is the summary of a plenary session that the mayor, Rosa Cardona, has tried to hide from the public by calling it at 10.00am in the morning, when she was asked in writing to hold such a meeting in the evening.

During the debate, the socialist spokesman, José Chulvi, and councilor Alberto Tur demonstrated that there is no report that supports that the municipal pool is not open. Neither from the technicians nor from Public Health, as the mayor suggested. Nothing. The only thing that there is is a lack in the management model, which has not been resolved or contracted in the 20 months that Rosa Cardona has been at the head of the local council.

So much so that today, almost a year after accepting the work as finished, there are no hired monitors, lifeguards, janitors, regulated maintenance or rules of use. All of them necessary elements to open the installation. Nor has the management model by AMJASA been clarified, to the point that the councillor for sports, Antonio Molina, referred on occasions to a temporary management agreement with an external company. In other words, more improvisation to acknowledge that something that could have been foreseen from the very day that the new government took office in the summer of 2023 has not been finalised.

In fact, the new excuses of the municipal government team are striking because they arise only as a result of the request for an extraordinary plenary session by the PSOE, when the work was received (that is, accepted as finished and ready) in April 2024. On the other hand, an overwhelming majority of the alleged defects cited for not opening a facility that has cost 6 million euros are minor things compatible with public use and easy to repair. Without going any further, the government’s new battle horse for not opening (an overflow channel) has a cost of 7,000 euros.

Both Alberto Tur and José Chulvi defended that, with diligent management, the municipal swimming pool could be at the service of the residents of Xàbia today without this posing any risk. So much so, that nothing is known about the Public Health report that the mayor presented to this day.

For José Chulvi: ‘this plenary session has been a ceremony of absurdity, in which the government has become the opposition and has dedicated itself to finding excuses for not opening the swimming pool that, thanks to the agreement of the PSOE government in Xàbia and in the Generalitat Valenciana, could be built after 20 years of unfulfilled promises by the PP governments and false first stones.’”