Coalición Canaria (CC) denounces the "discrimination" of the mayor of San Bartolomé, Isidro Pérez, with the town of Playa Honda “to which he wants to pass off as the social headquarters of a sports club a small municipal room started without
construction license instead of building one in conditions”. The nationalist municipal spokesperson, David Rocío, considers it “unacceptable that the City Council sees Playa Honda, with its more than 10,000 inhabitants, as a second-class town that has to settle for trifles to cover its needs given the disinterest of the mayor and his government group”.
In this context, David Rocío recalls that “the paddle tennis courts of the Playa Honda Sports Center have been closed for more than three years”, as well as “the precarious conditions in which clubs such as basketball or volleyball train, needing the Institute's pavilion an urgent reform” or the situation of the Civic Center court “with an investment of 93,000 euros a few years ago and closed to the public”.
Some deficiencies that, according to the municipal spokesperson for CC, “are extended to the rest of the municipality where specifically in the urban center of San Bartolomé we must regret a gym closed for three years as well and a third-world covered pavilion”. In order to alleviate these deficiencies, and in order for the City Council to carry out “an investment as the sports facilities of the municipality deserve and need for their improvement”, the nationalist formation urges the Government group of San Bartolomé “to make a credit modification, or better yet, to approve the 2023 budgets once and for all instead of resorting to remnants that will end up running out”.
In this sense, David Rocío points out that “of the 15 million remaining that the City Council had in 2019, only 400,000 euros remain”, so he suggests to the mayor “that instead of patching things up, work in advance and plan, either through a credit modification or through the next budgets an investment that allows reopening the closed sports facilities and improving those that need it, which happen to be all those in the municipality”.
“We ask the mayor to do things right, and we are not only referring to the terrible example that the City Council has given by building a sports club premises without a license, but also to the fact that he is up to the task and meets the needs of entities in general and, above all, of people because what we are not going to allow is for him to treat the citizens of the municipality as first- or second-class citizens, depending on the town where they reside”.
