Education tenders the works to improve the accessibility of the IES César Manrique

Companies have until March 17 to submit their proposals, with an investment of approximately 300,000 euros

February 27 2025 (19:34 WET)
Updated in February 27 2025 (19:55 WET)
The Mayor of Arrecife with the Councilor of Mobility outside the IES César Manrique
The Mayor of Arrecife with the Councilor of Mobility outside the IES César Manrique

The General Directorate of Infrastructure and Equipment of the Ministry of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands has put out to tender the works to provide interior accessibility to the IES César Manrique, in Arrecife.

The Arrecife City Council celebrates the bidding of these works to increase accessibility to the IES César Manrique and congratulates the Ministry of Education of the Canary Islands for its execution. Works that had been waiting for years, and that has been now, in this mandate, when they are put into execution.

"The Educational Community of the César Manrique Institute, in Arrecife, will soon see the execution of the works to provide accessibility to this educational center. A claim that families with students in this center have been requesting for years," remarks the mayor of the city, Yonathan de León.

"This Secondary Education Institute is a Preferential Motor Center and needs the facilities to be adapted to its mobility needs," he continues. In the first official visit that the regional councilor Poli Suárez made to the Arrecife City Council, the mayor, Yonathan de León, conveyed this demand to adapt this center to the provisions of the regulations as a Preferential Motor Center.

Councilor Poli Suárez, on his first official trip, met with the mayor Yonathan de León, and the Councilor for Education and Culture, Abigaíl González, to express the needs in education, among other issues. Already in that meeting, Poli Suárez assumed the commitment of the Regional Ministry to resolve these shortcomings.

In recent months, the mayor has met with the mothers representing these students and informed them of the progress made, first with the drafting of the mandatory project, and the imminent bidding of the works.

"It is now when we have already solved it," recalls Yonathan de León, "who details that this official bidding is inserted in the Public Sector Procurement Platform. The works in secondary education centers are the direct responsibility of the Canarian Executive."

For her part, the Councilor for Education of the Arrecife City Council, Abigail González, has pointed out that "although the IES are not a direct responsibility of the Department of Education, we want all the educational centers of Arrecife to be fully accessible. During the official visit of the Minister of Education to the City Council, we conveyed the urgency of this demand from the IES César Manrique and we committed to promote its solution. Today we celebrate that the accessibility works are a reality."

Companies have until March 17 to submit their proposals, with an investment of approximately 300,000 euros.

For the next academic year, after the execution of the works, the students will have an accessible secondary education center, where physical and communication barriers will be eliminated. "Years of waiting, but in the end it has been achieved, recalls the City Council when sharing this news with the Educational Community."

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