The Nationalist Group in the Arrecife City Council has urged the capital's government group to incorporate a public lighting service for emergency situations. A demand that the nationalists affirm that "it is part of the numerous neighborhood complaints about the continuous failures and breakdowns that the service has, which often occur at night and even on weekends and that are not repaired or solved until the next business day."
“The Councilor of the Area has acknowledged that there is no public lighting emergency service due to problems in other departments and we do not understand how two years after entering the government they continue to hide behind bureaucratic problems to solve a problem that is easy to solve”, said the CC spokesperson in the Arrecife City Council, Echedey Eugenio.
In addition, the councilor believes that "far from the intention that the government group seems to have to outsource the service and not count on municipal workers for it, what should be done is to negotiate at the collective bargaining table the possibility of providing this service with its own human resources, resorting only as a last resort to the privatization of the public service.”
Preventing the proliferation of dumping and waste points
This will be another of the motions that the Nationalist Group will take to the plenary session that will take place on Friday, July 30, where they will also propose that the capital's City Council take a further step in the measures to prevent the proliferation of uncontrolled dumping and waste black spots, improve the cleanliness of the capital and raise awareness about the importance of properly treating this waste.
“We cannot allow the incivility of a few unscrupulous people to continue to grow, creating an image of a city that clashes head-on with the objective of having a capital worthy of our Island as a Biosphere Reserve”, laments Eugenio, who adds that “the awareness campaigns inherited from the previous mandate that are carried out by the Cabildo and the City Council, which also have a high cost for both the administration and the residents, are of little use if they are not complemented by other measures that prevent some from continuing to act in such an uncivilized manner.”
In order to control this situation, the nationalists propose that the Technical Office implement procedures by which the building permits granted also serve to control the correct treatment of the waste derived from them and that the sanctioning regime be applied when this is not done.
Likewise, they propose the acquisition by the department of a system of mobile surveillance cameras that can be rotated through the located points and allow those who do not comply with the rules to be sanctioned. “It is of little use to presume that we are the third capital of the Canary Islands, if we do not solve basic issues such as public lighting or cut off at the root the problems that damage the image of our city”, asserts the spokesperson for the Nationalist Group.
