The Department of Education of the Arrecife City Council has detected a lack of security in the electrical and emergency systems in the Infant and Primary Education schools of the municipality. In addition, the City Council denounces that, given the need to have the subsidies from the Government of the Canary Islands to resolve the electrical, security and emergency improvements, the Autonomous Government "until today has forgotten us".
The City Council affirms that the lack of security was evidenced during the previous school year at the Antonio Zerolo school, where urgent improvements had to be made to the electrical and fire-fighting installation, assumed in the first instance by the capital's City Council.
These problems were also detected in the rest of the municipality's centers, so the Department of Education has requested the General Directorate of Infrastructure of the Ministry of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, and the Minister herself, "to take into account the co-financing that must be established between the Autonomous Community and the Arrecife City Council, since the City Council lacks sufficient own resources to undertake the updating of the electrical, emergency and security installations in general".
The City Council emphasizes that the schools were built with electrical installation projects adapted to a time and services that have doubled in recent years, since the electrical appliances in the dining rooms and new technologies have increased, so a capacity in the electrical panels is needed that is higher than what they have.