ACUMAR: From Managing the Sanitation of the Riachuelo to Owing More Than $100,000 in Maintenance Fees
<p style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The data comes from the analysis conducted by the AGN on the first half of the year 2014. On the accountabilities, the inspection body not only found that "no municipality fulfilled" and that "everyone had to be intimidated" but, in the sample was submitted only 37% of the funds. On the other hand, ACUMAR spent 1.3% of outstanding credit for the three programs evaluated in the report.</span></p> <div> </div>
The General Audit Office (AGN, for its acronym in Spanish) found that the Matanza-Riachuelo Basin Authority (ACUMAR) "maintains a debt in respect of its expenses.” The origin of liability is the fees that were not paid by the headquarters of the first floor of San Martin 320.
At the end of the examination, in July 2014, "there were two trials for this failure, one in Court No. 60, which was started in 2009 in the amount of $ 96,068 and a 2010 Court No. 47 by $ 8,740." As manifested by the watchdog "all payments go to interest and not the principal balance", i.e., to the original debt expense, "in which increasingly it generates more debt."
As long as we are speaking of maintenance fees, something else arises from the report. The overall level of implementation of these six months was "very low" and "it reached 1.3% of the loan as of that date." Of the $639 million available, they only executed $8.3 million.
As for accountability on the part of the municipalities the AGN stated that "none met the objectives" despite "all those summoned to more than one opportunity to conduct presentations," but at the end of the analysis it still had not happened.
Of the sample for evaluation, 37% of the funds were accounted for. La Matanza, for example, "was intimated three times to render accounts for more than $1.7 million" whose term expired in October 2011. In that municipality, they still have to account for another million.
President Peron, meanwhile, "requested an extension of the deadline." It was scheduled for December 2009 and finally surrendered in January 2013. General Las Heras $ 310,000 accrued but did not pay a penny.
The AGN’s report analyzed the same programs that it evaluated until July 2013. At that time "it had asked ACUMAR for records of the bidding process for the works of the Currier of Lanus awarded to the company Metropolitan Company CIAMECO Construcciones SA."
But "they just delivered some partial copies of the requested record." That is why the audit "could not make a conclusive opinion on the adjudication process."
However, it was able to diagnose a delay in the works. From the analysis of the documentation it was clear that "it requested an extension on the deadline for completion"; it had to be completed by March 31, 2014 and was postponed to August 31 of the following year.
