Villamediana delegates the tender for the municipal football field to the Mayor's Office

The Plenary of the City Council of Villamediana de Iregua delegated to the Mayor’s Office all the powers of the contracting body for the construction works of the municipal football field, as well as the approval of the financing agreement with the Government of La Rioja. The agreement was adopted in an ordinary session on November 4, 2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of La Rioja (BOR) No. 217, of November 10, 2026, in section III. Other Provisions and Acts, pages 19103 and 19104, with official reference BOR-A-20261110-III–4235 and file 3002/2026. The delegation immediately enables the bidding, awarding, and expenditure commitment of a co-financed project.

The agreement consists of seven sections and is expressly limited to the construction works contract for the football field. The text warns that the delegation does not include other contracts that may be necessary for the action, the competence for which will be determined according to its own regime. The document was signed in Villamediana de Iregua on November 6, 2026, by the Mayor-President, Rubén Gutiérrez Ruiz.

Contracting, awarding, and execution of the work

The delegation to the Mayor’s Office covers the legally delegable powers of the contracting body, with the following scope:

• Approve the works project and its modifications, the contracting file, the specific administrative clauses and technical specifications, and the opening of the awarding procedure.
• Adopt the acts proper to the contracting body during the bidding process, award and formalize the contract, and agree on the decision not to award or enter into the contract or the withdrawal of the procedure when legally appropriate.
• Exercise the powers of contractual execution: interpretation, resolution of incidents, modifications, extensions of deadlines, suspension, and imposition of penalties.
• Decide on the reception, the approval of the final certification, the liquidation, the return or cancellation of guarantees, the resolution, and the termination of the contract.

The agreement with the Government of La Rioja

The second of the agreements delegates to the Mayor’s Office the approval of the agreement with the Government of La Rioja intended to finance the construction of the municipal football field, as well as the assumption of the municipal execution and co-financing commitments derived from its content and possible modifications. The final text must identify the regional contribution, the municipal contribution, the deadlines, and the execution and justification obligations.

Its approval will require the relevant report and legal and economic-budgetary reports, the corresponding auditing, and verification that its obligations align with the jurisdictional basis set forth in the Secretariat report, applying the subsidy regime where appropriate. The signing of the agreement shall correspond to the Mayor in their capacity as representative of the City Council, once validly approved.

Expenditure, limits, and Plenary control

The third section expressly delegates the plenary powers of approval or authorization and of expenditure disposal or commitment linked to the works contract and the municipal commitments of the agreement, in accordance with Article 185.3 of the consolidated text of the Law Regulating Local Treasuries. This exercise is limited to the adequate, sufficient, and available credit in the corresponding budget and to duly accredited financing, subject to auditing and the execution bases.

Legally non-delegable powers are excluded, particularly the approval and budgetary modifications reserved for the Plenary, which also reserves the resolution of appeals for reconsideration filed against acts issued by the Mayor’s Office in the exercise of this delegation. The sub-delegation of the received powers is not authorized unless there is express legal authorization. The Mayor’s Office must report to the Plenary, in the next ordinary session, on the resolutions adopted, with information regarding the approval of the agreement, the award, contractual modifications, and incidents affecting the cost or the schedule.

Effectiveness and publicity

The delegation requires acceptance by the Mayor’s Office, either expressly or under the terms of Article 114 of the Regulation on the Organization, Operation, and Legal Regime of Local Entities, and shall take effect from the day following its publication in the BOR, provided that acceptance has occurred. It shall remain in force until the completion of the actions included in its object, without prejudice to its revocation or modification by the Plenary. Resolutions issued by delegation must expressly indicate this circumstance and the date of the enabling agreement.

The agreement is published in the BOR and will be disseminated on the electronic office and the municipal transparency portal, with notification to the Mayor’s Office, Secretariat, Comptroller’s Office, and the municipal services in charge of procurement and the management of the action. The same plenary session of November 4 initially approved the General Budget for 2027, displayed to the public for fifteen days according to the announcement published in BOR no. 216, of November 9, 2026 (BOR-A-20261109-III–4206).

With this delegation, the City Council of Villamediana de Iregua concentrates the complete processing of a sports project co-financed by the Government of La Rioja within the Mayor’s Office and avoids delays in the bidding process, while maintaining the ownership of the competence, political control, and the final decision on budgetary modifications within the Plenary.

Source: Official Gazette of La Rioja, no. 217, of November 10, 2026, section III. Other Provisions and Acts, pages 19103-19104 (official reference: BOR-A-20261110-III–4235).