The Cabildo of Lanzarote clarifies to the island's citizens the ruling of the Contentious-Administrative Court number 3 of Las Palmas in relation to the claims of the San Bartolomé City Council, concerning the distribution of the FDCAN and the non-inclusion of the work to transform Constitución street in the strategy of these funds.
In said ruling, the Court considers the appeal filed by the San Bartolomé City Council "partially" valid, approving only the nullity of the Governing Council's agreement but dismissing the obligation of the Cabildo de Lanzarote to include the "urban intervention project on Constitución street. T.M. of San Bartolomé" in the "Lanzarote Strategy 2016-2025" program
In fact, the ruling itself clarifies that: "however, this assessment is partial because the claims referring to the inclusion of a specific project or to subsidiary compensation, due to the inability to develop it, exceed the jurisdiction of this judicial body, given the absence of proceedings in this regard or the presentation of alternative projects and prior pronouncement by the Administration on the impossibility of developing it and the damages and losses caused, if any".
Now, the legal services of the Cabildo de Lanzarote will issue an appeal against this ruling, within the time established by law, as the Governing Group has always acted with favorable legal and technical reports for any type of decision-making.
An equitable and fair distribution
It should be recalled that in 2024, the San Bartolomé City Council had an allocated amount of 611,975 euros from the FDCAN distribution, which the Cabildo of Lanzarote executes equitably among the seven municipalities on the island, thus recovering the justice lost in the previous term when some municipalities saw not a single euro of these funds granted to them.At that time, the Cabildo of Lanzarote included the "Molina a Molina" project in the FDCAN strategy for an amount of €500,661.82, a project that was to be financed by FEDER funds and which, due to the previous Governing Group's inability to execute it in a timely manner, ran the risk of having to abandon the improvement project for José María Gil and Rubicón streets.Therefore, with the €500,661.82 already allocated, the Cabildo of Lanzarote requested that the San Bartolomé City Council include one more project with a maximum budget of €111,311.18, as this is the remainder to reach the €611,975 corresponding to the municipality of San Bartolomé in the distribution of the Canary Islands Development Funds.
This demonstrates the predisposition that the Cabildo of Lanzarote has always had with the San Bartolomé City Council, as with the rest of the island's municipalities, to collaborate and distribute funds that improve the quality of life for the island's residents.
