The Arrecife City Council will take to the Plenary session the transfer of a 1,000 square meter plot of municipal property to the Government of the Canary Islands. The purpose of this transfer is for the regional Executive to build an Employment Office there.
Thus, the City Council explains that the investment, of 2 million euros, will allow the construction in the Valterra neighborhood of a facility where the procedures of the Canarian Employment Service will be attended. In addition, the upper floor will be made available to the municipality for training activities.
The City Council has indicated that, according to assurances from the regional department, the current location of the Employment Office "does not meet the appropriate conditions for the public service provided, as it consists of several small premises connected to each other, without direct access to the street on the ground floor, which hinders the accessibility of users".
Likewise, the waiting room is located in a separate room from the rest, which causes "crowding" in the exterior corridor of the building, they explain. This office currently serves about 12,300 users. The Arrecife City Council will be able to make its contributions during the drafting of the building project, as stated in the project report.
Both the mayor of Arrecife, Eva de Anta, and the councilor for Employment, Isabel Mesa, consider "very positive for the city" to have "spacious and modern" employment offices. "Attention to the unemployed and those looking for work must be done with efficiency, agility and correctness and for this we must have adequate facilities," they say.