The Cabildo of Lanzarote presented this Wednesday in a press conference the agreement of the Government council to extend the contract for the conservation and maintenance service of margins and garden areas of the island's roads, which will be valid from next Monday.
The vice president and councilor of Public Works, Jacobo Medina, accompanied by the councilor of Finance and Contracting, María Jesús Tovar, and the councilor of the presidency and Human Resources, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, explained the process that "the Government group carried out to recover this service."
"We are closing a chapter of uncertainty, not only for the workers themselves, but also for the residents of this island who demand an improvement of our roads and our landscape," Medina stressed, who also stressed that "when the Government group was accessed, it found a deficient service diminished by the lack of personnel."
"If we did not reach this agreement, the 31 workers of the service would have been unemployed and would not be subrogated by the company," Medina asserted, who emphasized that this situation "is the most beneficial for the well-being of all of them."
Now, the Cabildo of Lanzarote has given the green light after the report of the legal advice of the Corporation that "gives the approval to recover this service, which not only contemplates the subrogation of the staff that currently offers the service, but also entails an expansion of staff and improvement of working conditions."
"Soon we will have a service up to the standards of what Lanzarote needs, with an adequate staff and who also enjoy a salary increase and a greater number of instruments and tools to perform their functions," added Medina, who has thanked "enormously" the work of the workers in the areas of Finance and Contracting, Public Works and Human Resources to solve this problem.
Nullity in the procedure
Jacobo Medina has explained in detail the procedure that led to the current situation, which began "with a provision of the councilor Alfredo Mendoza announcing that he would not extend the service." "A provision is not the competent and correct procedure to execute a decision of this type, but the Government council," Medina explained.
This anomalous situation led the UTE Tabaiba, who had won the tender for the service, to sue the Cabildo of Lanzarote considering that "there was a flagrant nullity" in the process carried out by the Island Corporation.
"We have reached an agreement with the company, and due to the mismanagement of the previous Government we have to compensate the company with 135,237 euros, to which we will have to add the lost profits, consequential damages and the costs of the procedure," Medina said at the press conference, who despite having to "pay that amount qualifies as very positive news that the service is recovered."
"Lanzarote could not afford that, due to a political animosity of the previous Government, our landscape was affected and that we had such a deficient service. We have taken a key step forward in the future of our island," Medina concluded.