Escorca to get special grant from the Council

The town hall has long called for it to be given special treatment. It operates deficits because it doesn't have sufficient sources of tax revenue to cover the costs it incurs. The mayor, Antoni Solivellas, is pleased that the Council is making the grant as it will mean that the town hall can avoid financial loss related to an outstanding dispute with the Council from 2016.

This had to do with four public works projects that the town hall undertook. The Council maintained that only one of these was legal. The Council was meant to have subsidised the works, which the town hall had gone ahead with and paid for. The grant will now offset any financial loss.

Solivellas is grateful to the president of the Council, Miquel Ensenyat, for the 200,000 euros being made available. He doesn't thank Joan Font, who he blames for having created the problems in the first place and for having denounced the town hall to the prosecution service.