The Arrecife Plenary has approved this Tuesday a motion from the nationalist group formed by CC, PNC and San Borondón to restructure the Department of Social Welfare by hiring more staff and doing street work. The motion presented and defended by the group led by Echedey Eugenio urges that the relevant processes be initiated for the hiring of the necessary personnel to comply with the recommended ratios and respond to the most needy people.
"We must work to improve the quality of life of the people of Arrecife. It is one of our main concerns, we must improve the services provided by a Department of Social Welfare that is not up to the task of what the population demands nor does it guarantee a real equality policy," said the nationalist councilor Carlos Alférez during the debate on the motion.
For his part, Echedey Eugenio added the need for a project to modernize municipal social services to be drafted and implemented, "which involves associations and groups and values the work of street educators."
"There are many shortcomings and problems that exist in our neighborhoods," he says, "and we can only respond to them if the administrative work of the department is added to the street work for the early detection of cases of social risk and to be able to act with the agility required by such an important and sensitive matter."
Eugenio thus thanks the government group for having had a vision and having added its support to such an important motion, but recalls that "it is not only about raising your hand and approving, but it must be implemented so that it does not remain in a drawer sleeping the sleep of the just."
Criticism for the rejected motions
On the other hand, the nationalist group criticizes that the government group has rejected the rest of its motions, which it affirms that "the only thing they collect and express is the feeling of the citizens." "They have voted against the pedestrian crossing on Iguazú street to access the Dr. José Molina Orosa Hospital, access to the CEIP La Destila, streamlining sports subsidies, convening the Carnival Board and have rejected the motion in which the revision of the Youth proposals already approved in the previous mandate was requested, pointing out the councilor that she has come to the City Council to work and not to review previous motions," said the spokesperson, Echedey Eugenio, although the councilor specified during the session that she had not said that she was not going to review them, but that she had not yet had time to look at them all.
"We regret the attitude of systematic blocking of all the proposals of the nationalist group by PP-PSOE-NC-Somos Lanzarote. It is a shame that they do not want to take advantage of our proposals that only transfer concerns of the neighbors," says the nationalist councilor.
In addition to proposals on the carnival, the updating of sports subsidies or the signing of the agreement of the Islote de Fermina for its use after the works, the nationalist group raised in its motions the need to give continuity in the rest of the neighborhoods to the project developed in Argana, that the entire Corporation and municipal technicians be convened to study each compensation and each expropriation, and to materialize the proposals of youth policies approved and not executed in the previous mandate.
