The Renovating Movement of Tinajo has asked the mayor, Jesús Machín, to "stop lying to the neighbors" with the municipality's clean point. “In terms of sustainability and the environment, water, roads and a long etcetera, Tinajo is neither here nor there, and with immense regret, it is not expected to be”, questions the councilman and party spokesperson, Antonio Morales.
“We have been waiting for a clean point for 12 years, since 2009, and at this rate, if we don't do something, it will be 12 more. We are still waiting for municipal aid for the implementation of solar photovoltaic energy with discounts on the IBI and the provision of a subsidy fund that allows families in Tinajo to save a lot of money on the electricity bill, etcetera, etcetera... Our mayor's negligence costs us all more money every day”, he denounces.
Regarding the clean point, the Renovating Movement of Tinajo considers "a new deception" the announcement that the government group made again last week, assuring that “work is already being done to make the land available to the Cabildo so that they can finalize the project, in an ideal area, behind the cemetery”. "There are serious doubts that this area is ideal, and of course the project does not seem to be 'soon a reality', as the mayor promises again", warns Morales.
"He remains stubborn on the same land, attending to who knows what interests"
Antonio Morales recalls that the City Council bought that land 10 years ago to allocate it to the municipality's clean point, "but the Cabildo rejected it because it does not comply with the regulations, since the Island Plan does not allow that type of use in that location".
“Attending to who knows what interests, he remains stubborn on the same thing, and depriving all the residents of Tinajo of this service”, questions Morales. “Our neighbors have to travel to other municipalities to use a clean point, the mayor does not care. We have been singing the same song for 12 years. How long will it be?”, he asks. In addition, he considers that "what the mayor should explain is why he allowed the money that the Government of the Canary Islands had given for this project to be lost".
In this regard, he recalls that the Cabildo "offered a land of its property in La Vegueta, in the area known as Maramoya, and even developed a project". However, he denounces that "the inexplicable disagreement with the Tinajo City Council prevented it from going ahead".
“The money was there to be made, but the mayor refused to have it done on that land, which the Cabildo gave him and they did not have to buy it, and having the funds to execute it, he refused that clean point”, insists Antonio Morales
Finally, the Cabildo had to return the subsidy almost two years ago, because in a decade it had not been possible to reach an agreement on the land where to locate it.
That item amounted to 1.1 million euros for the execution of three clean points in the municipalities of Teguise, Haría and Tinajo, but only the one in Costa Teguise was executed. Thus, the Island Corporation ended up returning 646,291 euros to the Canary Islands Government, as the deadline to execute that subsidy had expired, and also the extension granted by the regional Executive.
“Now, he is selling smoke again after ten years, insisting on a land where to this day there are still technical and legal discrepancies between the Tinajo City Council and the Lanzarote Cabildo”, warns Antonio Morales.
Faced with the "negligence of the mayor", the Renovating Movement of Tinajo affirms that "it assumes as its own the challenge of getting the clean point that Tinajo needs, with the help of everyone". In addition, it reproaches the mayor "the continuous deception with which he covers his lack of initiatives, selling as his own interventions that have nothing to do with the City Council". And it is that in the same press release last week by the government group, Jesús Machín announced the installation of two selective cardboard collection cages, attributing it to himself. “The Tinajo City Council continues to improve waste collection and increases the possibility of recycling in the municipality”, he stated in that statement, when selective collection is the exclusive responsibility of the Cabildo, which was the one who installed those new containers
