For about 2 years The municipal government of Valledupar has been talking about a new headquarters for the Mayor’s Office, project that was filed in the Ministry of the Interior, as EL PILÓN learned.
The formal name would be ‘Valledupar Administrative Center’ that would group the secretariats that are outside the municipal palace, such as those of Health and Educationand other offices for which the municipality must pay rent.
Lea: The new headquarters of the Mayor of Valledupar would cost around $18,000 million
Although former Minister of the Interior Daniel Palacios assured EL PILÓN more than a year ago that the resources for the work “They were assigned by the National Planning Department”, To date, there are no known advances in the matter.
GOVERNMENT TRANSITION
In fact, at the beginning of December, the mayor of Valledupar, Mello Castro González, He declared in an interview with this publishing house that with the transition of Government, the project would not have advanced.
Lea: New headquarters of the Mayor’s Office of Valledupar: the agreement has not been signed
“That was a bit frozen, we have told the new administration that this project is fully approved, We already had the approved designs and the lot where we were going to make it, but the national government is the one that has to find the resources for this,” Castro explained.
They are approximately $18,298 million and the majority of resources would have to be provided by the Nation, and the rest by the territorial entity.
IN THE IDEMA LOT
The land available for the construction of the facilities is the old Idema lot, near the Villa Bolivariana housing complex.
At the time, Former Minister Palacios indicated that the work “its viable”, but that he was unaware of what was advanced by the Government of President Gustavo Petro on the matter.
Lea: The new headquarters of the Mayor of Valledupar remains unconfirmed
Thus, 17 days after the end of Mello Castro’s mandate, there is no clarity on resource allocation for the materialization of modern facilities with greater capacity for the operation of the establishment.
By General Editorial.
