The extraordinary municipal plenary session held on Monday, May 11 at the City Council has approved rejecting the allegations presented by the Conselleria and formally initiating the reversal file for this building. Its construction began 20 years ago and, despite a public investment close to 8 million euros from all Paterna residents, it continues to not provide the care service for which it was designed.

The Paterna council regrets that this social resource “has become the Conselleria's catch-all” after being used for years for temporary purposes unrelated to the original purpose of the municipal transfer, which is none other than to provide service to people with functional diversity and their families.

In this regard, they recall that the facilities have hosted, among others, refugees from Ukraine, homeless people, provisional locations of the Valencian Institute of Sociosanitary Care (IVASS), and temporary transfers from other residences. These situations, according to the City Council, “have nothing to do with the stable and specialized care project committed to people with functional diversity and their families and have led to the reversal process”.

Likewise, the City Council has expressed its discomfort at the “lack of respect for families with people with functional diversity,” who have been demanding the effective implementation of this sociosanitary resource for years.

The council maintains that the Generalitat has repeatedly breached the conditions of the transfer of the land and the municipal building, which is why it has been decided to activate the reversal procedure to recover a property that “belongs to all Paterna residents.”

They have insisted that “the care provided to vulnerable groups is not questioned,” but rather the repeated non-compliance with the transfer conditions and the absence, after two decades, of the specialized residential resource committed to people with functional diversity in the city.