The Ministry of Sportvia letter, rejected the complaints made the previous Monday Jaime Ruiz Nicolalde, president of the Pichincha Sports Concentration (CDP), by claiming from that State portfolio what he called a “discretionary cut” of his budget. According to the provincial entity, that “affects” its athletes, their projects and retired former employees.
Ruiz, also through a letter, told Palacios: “As a consequence of his discretionary actions, Pichincha has been harmed with a significant budget cut, which seriously compromises the execution of important projects and the due attention of our athletes. Arguing that your decision was based on resources not executed during the previous year is unacceptable, since this was the exclusive responsibility of that State portfolio, due to its lack of prior approval to execute them”.
Palacios explained in a seven-page statement that there are “legal precepts” that “guarantee a fair, technical and equitable allocation of resources (not discretionary)”. To clarify the above, the Ministry of Sports details that the Resource Allocation Model for sports organizations (such as CDP) respects the criteria defined in article 130 of the Sports Law.
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It is cited that “the distribution of public funds to sports organizations will be in charge of the Sectorial Ministry and will be carried out according to its policy, its budget, the approved annual planning framed in the National Plan for Good Living and the Constitution. For budget allocation from training to high-performance sports, the following criteria will be considered: quality of management based on an evaluation matrix, which includes sports results, social impact of sport and its potential development, as well as the nature of each organization”.
Money allocation criteria
And Palacios added that “for the budget allocation to physical education and recreation, the following criteria will be considered: equality, number of potential beneficiaries, the sedentary lifestyle index of the locality and its socioeconomic level, as well as the nature of each organization. and undeveloped infrastructure.
Another complaint from Ruiz, head of the Pichincha Sports Concentration, has to do with the fact that the “money allocated for the purchase of the bus for transfers of athletes, which amounts to $ 80,000, did not have the budgetary certification that his ministry had to issue in 2020. And it was only granted when the year was ending, which made it impossible to follow the corresponding process.”
In the statement signed by Palacios, dated February 10, 2022, it is stated: “It should be noted that the value not executed by the Pichincha Sports Concentration in 2021 amounts to the amount of $1,448,334.90, a situation that brings as evident consequence that the athletes who depend directly on their organization, have not been attended in the conditions and with the criteria approved by this Ministry. In the same way, in the fact that the public resource assigned and not executed by your organization, limits the development of sports in other disciplines and in other provinces, which stopped receiving resources”.
Pichincha Sports Concentration claims Sebastián Palacios, Minister of Sports, for ‘harmful’ budget cut
‘CDP has not complied’
The public official made a clarification to Ruiz: “Despite the fact that the organization under his charge (CDP) has not satisfactorily fulfilled the execution of assigned resources during 2021-reaching only 76% of execution compared to other organizations that have achieved an important execution which amounts to 100% use of the transferred public resources-, $4,830,077.25 will be allocated), that is, $297,094.55 additional to the value executed during his administration in 2021″.
In his letter from the beginning of the week, the president of CDP assured that Palacios’s behavior has not only harmed the athletes, but also former employees of the provincial organization. “The pensions owed, after the State assumed the administrative expense and were paid on time from 2010 to 2018, which for 2019 were accepted to be included in the budget. In our several meetings, you ratified the assumed commitment; however, it is still not responsible for those amounts that today represent a high level of indebtedness,” Ruiz declared.
The theme of retirees
Palacios is categorical about that claim. He said that “it is striking that the sports organization under his charge intends to attribute to this State portfolio the responsibility that falls exclusively on its leaders related to the fulfillment of the employer’s obligations to its workers.” And after citing several articles of the Sports Law, he emphasized that the State portfolio that he heads “is not a contracting party” between workers and CDP.
Due to the foregoing, the Ministry of Sports “urges the Pichincha Sports Concentration to comply with its employer responsibilities. Pretending to endorse said obligations to the State is contrary to the private nature of the sports organization, to the current legal regulations, and especially contrary to the aforementioned legal instrument signed by the organization which you (Jaime Ruiz) represent, in which determine their role and responsibilities. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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