“All the country’s distributors were summoned to take over the debt that was left following the pandemic in a first section”, explained Lucca, the president of the Board of Directors of the CALF cooperative.
Dario Lucca: “Of everything CALF bills, only 29% is energy”
There are no figures now of how much that debt is, nor how it is composed between pure debt and interest. According to Lucca, in 40 more days the technicians from each distributor will meet once more with Cammesa to make the definitive agreement that determines the amount to be paid by each entity.
Specified that it is signed that the return It will be in 96 installments with a six-month grace period. «The CALF cooperative has been paying the entire bill that comes from Cammesa for a year and a half. This debt was generated in the times of former mayor Horacio Quiroga, who did not recognize the increases in Cammesa’s billing to home bills, “said Lucca.
He remembered thatThe credit situation comes from 2017 onwards; ouchnque since the signing of the concession contract following the assumption of the mayor Mariano Gaido, the concession contract was signed and updated.
The recognition of the debt and the The payment plan was signed for the first time with the then Minister of Energy of the Nation, Darío Martínez, in August 2021. At that time, what was agreed was a special treatment for the cooperatives, within the distributors that had debts.
The figure that was discussed 2 years ago was 2,300 million pesos, following deducting interest. “Everything came from drag since there was a price tag on society, doubting the presidency of Mauricio Macri,” Lucca recalled.
Con the increases applied since the concession contract was signed, at the rate of a monthly increase in 2022, (except in the February period) the cooperative stabilized.
“Today the economic and financial situation of the cooperative is completely stable, paying all the commitments on time and in a proper way and being able to have a short, medium and long-term perspective of what the city of Neuquén needs,” said Lucca.
From today it is more expensive to park in Neuquén, the new rate chart is already in force
The composition of the debt and the recalculation will be known following the agreements between the technicians of the CALF cooperative and the technical bodies of Cammesa are finalized, it was indicated. The ratification of what had already been signed was enthusiastically communicated through the cooperative’s networks.
LThe municipality, which has a concession control department, does not report on the situation of the concessioned services and the increases, despite the fact that it has the numbers and authorizes the increases, which are later reported in the official bulletin.
EThe new increase in the CALF bill and its rate, It is communicated in the official bulletin of January 2, with provision 111 of last year, dated December 19 following the cooperative reported the salary increases and the need to increase (with a report of December 16 of that year). the tariff chart by more than 10%. The provision transcribed that the amount that corresponded to authorize is 9.20% from December 1 of last year.
With the new year, the maximum value for contracting minor public works in Neuquén doubled
Yesterday we signed a payment plan for the debt contracted by @calfneuquen with CAMMESA during the pandemic, in order to update the accounts of the cooperative. pic.twitter.com/VWiyIk3rDK
— Dario Lucca (@DarioLuccaok) January 6, 2023
