Friday 10th July
Whilst in the Town Hall today continuing the work re the Padron hoped to see Candido but both he and Andreas were very busy. Andreas was so busy he ended up having a bit of a fall out with his colleagues. Whilst he is dealing with all the callers at reception he also has to answer the phone and he felt that the others were not taking enough of the incoming calls. That did seem to be the case from my knowledge.
I was able to help some neighbours get their certificate of empadronimiento. Due to their being no Lic of 1st Occupation they are effectively on my address.
I did ascertain that the first 3 Certificates of Expediente had been received when I pressed Isa (the secretary). One of these 3 is for a gentleman by the name of Dennis Stone. They only had a telephone number for him so if anyone knows someone by that name please let him now his Certificate is ready for collection. I asked Isa how long before the other requested ones would be done. She replied that they were working on area by area a little at a time. I said I hoped we could get them all dealt with soon!
The fiesta in La Alfoquia starts next Thursday and part of the process is awarding the contract to supply the bars for the fiesta and I discovered today that they way they do this is to invite sealed bids for how much an individual is willing to pay the Town Hall for that license and the one bidding the most gets the bar. All the bids had to be in by this afternoon.
As promised I pushed to get the inventory for Salvadore. He was not answering his phone so I went down to his office. He explained that he was sorting out a few discrepancies in the names shown on his inventory. I said that he had promised me this some weeks ago. He took my mobile telephone number and said he would ring me back in an hour or two. I am not holding my breath as he has promised so much in the past. It is not that he is not a nicee person, he is but he is so laid back it is unbelievable. I need to get the rest of the street house numbers as people are starting to need such detail for various reasons. If I do hear I will be most apologetic bit if , as I suspect, I do not I will keep pushing everyday until I get it.
The land for the memorial garden for Ben Russon should be cleared by the end of the week I was told. I was told that the area at the rear of the pool bar which the residents want as a boules court needs a bit more work as it will need to be leveled but they said they would do it in the next week or two.
I spoke with others in the Town Hall about the recent publicity regarding Operation Costura (the Guardia investigation into corruption in Zurgena) I was told that the councillors involved are all rather upset by this as and have said that their solicitors may well enter a denuncia against the courts. The reason for this being the fact that there are allegedly 41,000 pages of information but the defence solicitors have only seen 1,400 pages. They are also getting more annoyed at the lack of publicity being given to the investigations in Huercal Overa, Aboleas and Albox. It is of course primarily PP controlled press that is carrying these articles. They all as one would expect totally refute any allegations of impropriety so we will just have to wait and see.
Jose (who is responsible for the records on the Padron in the Town Hall) did tell me that while he has been checking the residents against the computer he is discovering a number are not on the Padron. This may because not resident or whatever but he will supply me with a list once the work is done and I will contact people to see how we can help get them on the Padron, if appropriate.
I will try again next Monday to see Candido but I didn't want either poor Andreas losing it altogether or to interrupt Candido when he obviously had so many people waiting to see him.
