The Ministry of Education and Universities of the Government of the Canary Islands published this Wednesday in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands, on an urgent basis, the call to tender for the expansion works of the Los Geranios Center for Early Childhood and Primary Education. These works will provide the Arrecife center with eight new infant classrooms, a multipurpose classroom and improvements to the dining room and kitchen; facilities that are necessary due to the reorganization of education in the capital and that has its root in the conversion of the Zonzamas Secondary Education Institute into the first Integrated Vocational Training Center in Lanzarote.
The works are put out to tender with an initial budget of 942,049.84 euros without IGIC (Canary Islands General Indirect Tax) and will be executed within a maximum period of six months from its start, according to the Ministry of the Government of the Canary Islands. These renovations will allow the students of the Mercedes Medina school to attend school in Los Geranios. The latter center, according to what has been established by the Ministry of Education in the reorganization plan of education in the capital, will gradually be transformed into a Secondary Education Institute.
In total, the expansion will occupy 556.54 square meters in the case of the classrooms and 431.85 square meters in the case of the dining room and kitchen facilities. Thus, the infrastructures will comprise two new modules, which will have their own access for students from the outside and will expand a third module, already existing, where the dining room facilities are currently located.
The Ministry of Education has explained that the work carried out to prepare and approve the execution project of these works as soon as possible, and which was deposited to obtain the mandatory building permit last November, was stopped by the obligation to have a favorable report from the Spanish Aviation Safety Agency, on the impact of the work on the operability of the nearby Guacimeta airport.
The Minister of Education and Universities of the Government of the Canary Islands, Soledad Monzón, met together with the general director of Centers and Educational Infrastructure of the Ministry, Ana Dorta, with the educational community of these centers last March, to discuss with families and teaching teams the reorganization of education, according to what has been highlighted by the Ministry of the Canary Islands Executive.
