Marcial Martín, mayor of San Bartolomé, and Manuel Azuaga Moreno, general director of AENA, have signed a collaboration agreement with a duration of 8 years, starting this January of 2008. Marcial Martín and the two groups that maintain the government pact in San Bartolomé, PSC-PSOE and PIL, consider "that it is an important agreement that will benefit the City Council because it will contribute to improving municipal coffers". And, AENA will pay the City Council 250,000 euros annually.
"We could no longer afford to maintain attitudes of suspicion with AENA as in previous years", they point out from the City Council. Likewise, they affirm that the airport "is the gateway for tourism, the main company and driving force of the island's economy, so the aim is to improve deficiencies, collaboration by both parties, consolidate negotiations and strengthen ties with AENA, which will go beyond this agreement".
Thus, the public business entity of airports undertakes to prepare and execute a cleaning plan for the areas surrounding the airport, and especially the one located between the airport grounds and the center of Playa Honda. Likewise, it will cede free of charge and temporarily in the airport facilities an office or counter so that the City Council can provide information, representation and/or institutional development services. In addition, the two institutions will promote the celebration of cultural events, conferences, courses or working days. Similarly, Aena will collaborate in the tourist and cultural promotion of the municipality and will sponsor sociocultural events that take place in it.
For its part, the San Bartolomé City Council undertakes to regulate, order and monitor road traffic in the airport grounds, as well as to control all actions carried out by taxi drivers within the grounds that constitute infractions, imposing sanctions on them. Likewise, it will remove vehicles that are badly parked or abandoned, placing them in the municipal depot, and collect fines or sanctions. In addition, two local police officers will provide their services in the airport grounds from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. throughout the week. A crane service will also be provided from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. whenever it is not providing the service at another point in the municipality. Then it will be the airport that will provide its own with police support.
The City Council will also be responsible for the treatment and management of lost property at the airport and the use of municipal facilities will be ceded to AENA for sporting events as long as they have not been previously requested by other entities.
