The Teguise City Council approved this Thursday, in an extraordinary plenary session, the initiation of the transfer of an office building located in the Agrotechnological Center in favor of the Regulatory Council of Designation of Origin of Wines of Lanzarote.
As La Voz reported, the Regulatory Council has been based for two and a half decades in San Bartolomé, in a premises ceded by the City Council. However, last year it failed to renew the agreement, because the City Council wants to recover the premises to install the family respite center there. Then, San Bartolomé offered the Regulatory Council to move to the Casa Mayor Guerra, but it considered that this property did not adapt to its needs. Thus, it began meetings with other city councils, including that of Teguise.
“Once we assess the technical reports included in said file, we will be able to proceed with the transfer of the facilities required by the Regulatory Council, so this is a first step so that the entity can move to a suitable headquarters to develop its activity in the control and food safety of Lanzarote wines and be able to serve the wine sector from Teguise, which will be an added value for the Center”, declared the mayor of Teguise, Oswaldo Betancort, after the approval in the plenary session this Thursday.
“With this approval we make ourselves available to the management of the Council to expedite the rest of the procedures and sign an agreement to define the conditions of use of this space, as Teguise has done with the Maramajo Livestock Association and other groups in the primary sector who need a place of operations with the support of the institutions”, added Betancort.
For his part, the councilor of the area, Gerardo Rodríguez, announces that “the City Council will soon sign an agreement with SAT El Jable, a group of farmers who have requested a commercial warehouse for storage and marketing of onions, sweet potatoes and grains”.
