Sale of graves generates controversy

The Chairman of the Board of S. Martin says the Field House promised but did not do the work in the cemetery, therefore, Adelino Moreira decided to sell fields to pay the contract.

The Board of S. Martin Field will sell fields to pay for work that the Board of Santo Tirso and promised not done in the cemetery. But the city calls the illegality of the process by not having a protocol.

U m-surprise document drafted and imposed by the Authority as the representative of Tirsense S. Martin Field did not sign and a promise that Castro Fernandes, leader of the Socialist City Hall, have not fulfilled triggered new battle between the two mayors.

With the repairs promised by the Cities in the cemetery of the town - "a pressing need," stresses Adelino Moreira, president CAMPENS elected by the PSD - the afternoon, the Board of Parish progressed. Because, regrets the mayor of St. Martin, "since the last letter half a year elapsed without a response."

In the absence of support camarário, the local authority decided then "make the granting of a share of the graves" of the new area of the cemetery to help pay the costs, a decision that the city considers "unlawful" for not having a protocol. "It's a good area of town and therefore only the City Council can make grants of graves," argues in this press release, calling also for the people not to buy fields to the Board.

Adelino Moreira says he has been surprised by the protocol in the inaugural act of expansion - made by the Board - the cemetery in February 2006. However, Fernandes Castro promised to "study the matter with the Executive Board and discuss it at the Parish House."

Was fulfilled the inauguration: "The president handed me the keys to the cemetery to manage" and "publicly said that it would treat the old part," recalls the mayor CAMPENS. But the work is not done, and analysis of the protocol taxes, born reticence.

"We found that the Board wanted to take possession of the management of the cemetery. The Board sells concessions perpetual and at the same time, would sign a protocol only for four years? It makes no sense. And we had to report to the City Hall, where the law says we must bring them to the House of Parish and the Court of Auditors, "says Adelino Moreira. The Edil guarantees: "The cemetery will always be managed by the Board and not the House. Why not the people would accept another position."

The city says that "the protocol was intended, above all, delegate to the Board of Parish's power to make concessions and establish that these could only be made after the death."