The Councilor for Public Works of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Alfredo Mendoza, responded on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero to the criticisms of the Popular Party regarding the delay in the payment of salaries to the workers on the roadsides. "Let's hope that throughout today the workers can collect their payrolls," he announced on the morning radio show Buenos días, Lanzarote.
For nearly two months, the Cabildo of Lanzarote terminated the cleaning and maintenance contract for the roadsides that it had with UTE Tabaiba until now. The organization decided not to renew the agreement and subrogated the staff to a company managed by the highest island institution to guarantee the continuity of the workers.
"What we did was a subrogation of that personnel until the new specifications are resolved," added the Councilor for Public Works. In this sense, during his intervention Alfredo Mendoza highlighted that, among other things, "the technician who is in charge of these workers was on leave these days and could not sign the necessary report for the conformation of the payment in a timely manner."
Being subrogated to another company, the workers are paid on different dates than those on which the Cabildo workers usually receive their payroll. According to the councilor, the personnel hired by the island organization are paid at the end of the month, around the 28th.
Due to the leave of the technician who was in charge, a Public Works technician assumed the report to face the payment of the payrolls. "Therefore, relaxation and tranquility, a little more patience. It had to have been resolved since Friday, I am with this matter but an administrative issue has delayed it," he added.
The Cabildo of Lanzarote re-tendered these works and assures that it hopes that "soon we can have a new contract with one of the companies that submit." The reason why the tender was republished is because they not only wanted to commission the cleaning of the roadsides, but also the replanting or replacement of rofe and picón, for example. "We hope to have a better dimensioned contract not only in terms of personnel, but also in terms of the actions that can be taken through that contract."
The Councilor for Public Works alludes to the importance of "monitoring" the specifications, so that, "if it does not work, then rescind and change. We are simply reviewing to get it out to tender as soon as possible and in the meantime, the workers, which was what worried us, will be subrogated to the Cabildo until the specifications are resolved.
Likewise, the Cabildo of Lanzarote will leave in this legislature the renovation of the lawn of the Sports City already awarded, or "at least", already in the verification phase.