New clash between the Cabildo and the Arrceife City Council regarding the works on the 7-a-side football pitch in the Las Salinas neighborhood. The Minister of Public Works, Alfredo Mendoza, describes the attitude of the Mayor of Arrecife, Astrid Pérez, as "institutional disloyalty": "She appropriates works that do not belong to her, creating an unprecedented situation in the history of the Cabildo."
From the First Institution, they announce the start of the works and recall that they are financed by the Cabildo itself within the framework of the Municipal Cooperation Plan with Arrecife, through which the institution invests more than 368,000 euros.
"We promised to improve sports facilities in Arrecife and this is further proof of our commitment, especially when these works have been highly awaited by its population for more than a decade," says the Minister of Sports and Public Works, Alfredo Mendoza.
A "highly demanded" intervention
The intervention consists of the replacement of the artificial turf and the irrigation system, adapting accessibility to current regulations and the renovation of changing rooms, electrical installations, fire protection, plumbing, general-use bathrooms, and sanitation.
Mendoza assures that this is a "highly demanded" intervention for which we have made an effort that will make it a modern, benchmark 7-a-side football pitch, with all the approvals and equipment required for an installation of these characteristics."
The objective of the Cabildo's Municipal Cooperation plans is to "satisfy the needs for equipment and infrastructure of the island's municipalities." In this sense, the Cabildo councilor recalls that "assistance and legal, economic, and technical cooperation to the municipalities is a competence of the island councils and we allocate these funds fairly and equitably among the seven municipalities of Lanzarote."
Appropriation of public works by the Cabildo
In another vein, Alfredo Mendoza reproaches the Mayor of Arrecife, Astrid Pérez, for "her permanent lack of institutional courtesy that leads her, day after day, to the improper appropriation of other people's public works; those of the Cabildo in this case." The Cabildo councilor invites "Astrid Pérez to cite the Cabildo when it invests or allocates public spending in Arrecife, instead of remaining silent or implying that it is her merit."
Mendoza maintains that "the mayor is not being politically correct or telling the truth when she refers to the effort made by the Cabildo in the capital," and affirms that "never before has Arrecife had so much administrative, legal, economic, political, and construction support as it has now, under the presidency of María Dolores Corujo."
Finally, he emphasizes that "the effort made during the current term by the Cabildo in Arrecife amounts to almost 16 million euros so far through the Municipal Cooperation plans."
