The Board of Directors of the Port Authority of Las Palmas, held this Tuesday at the Cabildo of Lanzarote, approved the expansion works of the Los Mármoles dock, which have an amount of 25.5 million euros, seven more than initially planned. The work will be put out to tender in September.
"It will be difficult for us to see an investment of this caliber from an administration like the Port Authority," said this Wednesday the Deputy Mayor of Arrecife and member of that Council, José Montelongo, on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero.
Initially, according to the president of the Port Authority himself, Luis Ibarra, the investment was going to be 18 million euros, but "then it was seen that reaching 25 million improved the expansion" and, therefore, "the operability of the port."
Montelongo has also criticized the press release from the Popular Party, in which the party stated that this investment came from the central government and not from the Port Authority's own funds. "It is a shame that the PP and Ástrid Pérez waste time issuing a note saying where the funds come from, when what they do is lie," he said.
"Maybe Ástrid Pérez is confused"
The Deputy Mayor of Arrecife has insisted that this investment comes from the Port Authority of Las Palmas' own funds. "Maybe Ástrid Pérez is confused. What happens is that the Port Authority is part of Puertos del Estado, which includes in its budgets what the Authority does with its own funds, but they are still its own funds. I don't understand this discussion," Montelongo said.
In addition, the Deputy Mayor has assured that citizens have to "rejoice" that the Board of Directors of the Authority was held "for the first time" in Arrecife. "There have been other presidents of the Authority from the PP who have rarely looked at the port of Arrecife and much less have held a Council here," he said.
Tourist information office
Another of the "important" points that this Board of Directors approved on Tuesday was the granting of the public domain concession to the Arrecife City Council to occupy an area of 2,576 square meters, which will be used for a tourist information office, in the Ginory area.
"At the moment there is already one, prefabricated, in front of the Insular Hospital," Montelongo recalled, who assured that now they will be granted a plot to install this tourist information point, which will have an investment of 200,000 euros from the Cabildo's own funds.
