The Arrecife City Council has initiated two files to penalize Urbaser, the company that has the cleaning service concession, for breach of contract. This has been announced by the council in a press release. This file has been initiated through the Department of Cleaning, led by Jacobo Lemes.
The company now faces a penalty of 18,000 euros for serious breach.
For his part, the mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, has stressed that he will demand that the concessionary companies comply with the services and contracts signed with the City Council. In this line, he defends that Urbaser "has proven these breaches" and therefore has signed these two decrees where he penalizes the company and has notified them.
Meanwhile, Jacobo Lemes, reflects that these are "infractions based on the lack of maintenance of the machinery that is attached to the execution of the contract, such as beach screening machines, sidewalk washing machines and hydro-cleaning vans and, in general, the collection vehicles that produce expulsion of leachates on public roads".
At the same time, the Arrecife City Council maintains that "the company is not carrying out the cleaning, conservation and maintenance of the containerization points, nor is it cleaning or maintaining containers, detecting a lack of hygiene in the use of the same, as well as the existence of deficiencies in cushioning mechanisms or incorrect opening of container lids".
Thus, the municipal institution points to "this lack of maintenance of the machinery or the lack of replacement of the same when it is broken down" as a "serious breach of the obligations" of Urbaser since they directly affect "the quality, quantity and times of the provision of the service and cause inconvenience to the users of the service". The same happens with the abandonment of the containers, they are neither cleaned adequately nor is the maintenance required by the contract carried out, continues Lemes.
The councillor assures that these problems have already been transferred to the contractor on "several occasions without him having done anything to solve the situation".
"Our obligation is to ensure the safety and health of citizens and that involves compliance with a contract that is vital for the welfare of all who live here," says Lemes.
Likewise, the City Council has reported that it has not certified 100% of the monthly fee submitted by the company, with a value of 75,542.35 euros, in invoices between June and October of this year, due to the "repeated breaches of the contract".