The PSOE denounces that the “inability to listen and manage” of the Teguise government group, chaired by Oswaldo Betancort, has caused “the desperate delay in the completion of the Costa Teguise football field”, which is now awaiting “the awarding and installation of the electrical towers and spotlights that must illuminate the playing field.”
The socialist group considers it "surreal" that the municipal executive announces “as a great achievement” the start of the contracting of the turrets and spotlights. “More than a year ago we warned that they had excluded them from the project, and that failure to act quickly would delay their commissioning, unless the mayor wanted to inaugurate the first football field without lights, as we told him," says the socialist spokesperson, Marcos Bergaz.
"If he had listened to us, the athletes of Costa Teguise, especially the children of Palmeiros, could already be using a football field that, with the grass laid months ago, is awaiting the lights, when they knew that there was an urgent need for their contracting," says the socialist councilor.
“The situation is even more embarrassing because it forces them to use a provisional field that floods every time it rains and they have refused to improve its condition, despite our requests and those of the club itself,” adds Bergaz.
"Oswaldo Betancort must think that, since more than 6 years have passed since the announcement of the football field, what does it matter if the citizens of Costa Teguise wait another year? Either because of his difficulties in listening to the main opposition party, or because he still does not care about Costa Teguise, they did not proceed to initiate the contracting of the turrets and spotlights until more than a year later," adds the PSOE spokesperson in Teguise.
“The neglect has led to the umpteenth delay”
The PSOE of Teguise considers that "the neglect” has led, as they claim to have already denounced “despite the initial denial by the municipal government”, to the “umpteenth delay for its commissioning”, for which they assure that there is “still a way to go."
"And even leaving aside the limited ambition of the project, far from the great sports city that our residential and tourist Costa Teguise needs, its opening is urgent, even more so when the artificial turf has been laid for months," adds Bergaz.
In this sense, the PSOE of Teguise points out that they denounced “the paralysis of the works at the end of 2020”, as well as “the unprecedented processing of an amendment excluding the turrets and spotlights as obsolete." "Instead of rectifying when we pointed it out, they let a long year pass to draft the lighting project and subsequent tender for the awarding of its installation," explains Bergaz,
“Facts like this reveal the erroneous conception that Coalición Canaria has of the public function, turning a deaf ear to the most elementary issues, systematically refusing the suggestions for improvement that we raise to the plenary. And those who suffer this ineffectiveness are our young people, who see reduced options for their sports training," concludes Bergaz.
