Alser Members’ Assembly approves the 2011 budget, which is €150,000 short of balancing

Alser BM Puerto Sagunto held its Members’ Assembly this Friday, with two major items on the agenda. One was the ever-vital financial matter: approval of the accounts for the promotion season, which closed with a deficit of €58,000, and presentation to the Assembly of the budget for the current season, which as of today has committed expenditure exceeding the income secured by €150,000.

After acknowledging the efforts of both the sponsors, led once again by Alser, and Sagunto Town Council as a whole, with special mention of Mayor Alfredo Castelló, President Bataller outlined the outstanding problems requiring resolution. These can be summarised as the need to increase, in particular, public support from higher-level public authorities. In this regard, after thanking the Regional Ministry of Tourism for its €32,000 grant, he wished to record his disappointment at the lack of support from the Provincial Council of Valencia, which, according to Bataller, “is the only provincial council with an ASOBAL team that does not support its province’s club, leaving us at a disadvantage compared with the others”. He also pointed out that public support through ordinary grants accounts for less than 10% of Alser’s budget, one of the lowest figures in the ASOBAL League and Spanish professional sport.

On another matter, Bataller noted the need for a stronger youth academy, broadening the focus of its work beyond the city, as well as the need for a greater social presence commensurate with the club’s status as the most representative club in local sport.

The Assembly also marked the starting gun for Alser’s electoral period, with the election of the Electoral Committee, the Electoral Board and a Management Committee that will oversee the club’s affairs during the month-long electoral period, headed by the legendary local player and coach Antonio Marzo. In this context, Juanjo Bataller announced to the eighty members in attendance his intention to stand for re-election, with a board comprising practically all the current members, along with six new directors. If Bataller is re-elected, this would bring a strong injection of talent and management resources to join the current board, which, with Bataller at the helm, has held office for ten years and has taken the team from the Primera Autonómica to the ASOBAL League.

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