The Planning and Project Coordination Unit of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, headed by Vice President Jacobo Medina, has issued a technical report rejecting an appeal filed by the San Bartolomé City Council in which it claimed "an erroneous distribution" of the amounts granted from the Canary Islands Development Fund.
This report has been approved by the Island Government Council held this week. It argues that the San Bartolomé City Council requested on November 27, 2023 the inclusion of the project “Urban intervention on Constitución Street in the municipality of San Bartolomé” in the FDCAN funds of the same year, with a total amount of up to 880,600.72 euros.
However, that amount exceeded the accumulated amount since in May 2023 the Cabildo de Lanzarote allocated an amount of 500,661.82 of the project “De Molina a Molina”, which is currently being executed in the José María Gil and Rubicón streets of San Bartolomé and which had been framed in the European FEDER Conurbal Azul funds strategy, which ended on December 31, 2023. In this way, the area claims that it "saved the execution of that work so demanded by the citizens".
Therefore, once the 500,661.82 euros have already been allocated, the Cabildo de Lanzarote requested the San Bartolomé City Council to include one more project with a maximum budget of 111,311.18 euros, since it is the remaining amount to reach the 611,975 euros that correspond to the municipality of San Bartolomé in the distribution of the Canary Islands Development Funds.
The vice president of the Island Corporation, Jacobo Medina, assures that this procedure “demonstrates the equal commitment to all the municipalities of Lanzarote. Not only did we manage to save the work that was not executed due to the abandonment of the previous Government, but we requested the inclusion of a new project that could be financed with the Canary Islands Development Funds”, says Medina.
In this sense, the vice president recalls that the distribution of the FDCAN is carried out "equitably" by the seven municipalities based on the population they have, "thus moving away from arbitrary criteria as was done in the previous mandate." In addition, he claims that "in this year the maximum has been reached in terms of money distributed, amounting to five million euros."
According to Medina, “unlike the year 2022, in which the municipalities of Teguise and Arrecife received zero euros, and Tías and San Bartolomé eight million, in this mandate they are being distributed equitably to all the municipalities of the island”, assures the vice president, who extends his hand again to the San Bartolomé City Council “to finance works that improve the quality of life of the residents.”
