PP and CS propose to create a public company to manage CEFC

They aimed a few months ago but now the proposal is in writing.The local government, formed by Popular Party and Citizens, will bet on the creation of a new public company to manage the exhibition, fairs and conventions (CEFC) center when this building finally opens its doors.The Technical Report commissioned by the City of Córdoba to know which management model would be the most appropriate for the new congress enclosure has concluded that public society is the most appropriate formula, after analyzing what has been done in cities like Valencia, Madridor Seville, which have this type of infrastructure for years."In most of these spaces, such as in Valencia, in Malaga or Fibes in Seville, all kinds of formulas have been tested, but in the end it has ended up opting for the public company," explained municipal sources consulted by this newspaper. 

If approved, the creation of a new public company dependent on the City of Córdoba will not be a simple procedure and will require time, rather than the construction company needs to complete the reform of CEFC, now planned by March 31.In December, the Local Governing Board extended to spring the execution period of the completion work of the consolidation of the structure, reform and partial adaptation of the Municipal BuildAwarded August 2020 to the construction company San José.

PP y Cs proponen crear una empresa pública para gestionar el CEFC

The winner already adds several months of delay in a project that began in 2015 and that was already paralyzed four years ago with the building in the end.

The new public company will depend on the City of Córdoba, although its approval will require time and procedures

If the new infrastructure concludes as planned in spring, previously that this new municipal company is believed, the local government will have to look for an intermediate management formula if you want to give life and take advantage of the new building.With a Municipal Tourism Institute (Imur) in the process of dissolution-it has been the condition imposed by Vox for the approval of the municipal budgets of 2022-, the solution is complicated.Despite this, local government sources say whatever this management formula is already working to bring a large format congress, «5.000 or 6.000 participants »by 2022.

The opposition, on the contrary, has rang PP and Cs that have not taken this time to start bringing congresses to the city through a plan to capture fairs, congresses and events, or the Council of the Citizen Movement, which claimed to solveThe problem of accesses to the jeweler park before launching the new building.