The Municipal Socialist Group in the Tinajo City Council has presented a motion to the next plenary session to demand comprehensive improvement, rehabilitation, and maintenance work on the Mancha Blanca Teleclub and its entire surroundings, while denouncing "the deterioration of several public infrastructures used daily by residents, groups, and users of the municipality".
The socialist spokesperson, Begoña Hernández, demands from the mayor, Jesús Machín, and the Coalición Canaria government group a "planned and complete" action in Mancha Blanca, “a town that has been accumulating deficiencies in essential public spaces for too long without the City Council having promoted a comprehensive response commensurate with its needs”.
Demands "serious and complete action"
“The Mancha Blanca Teleclub and its surroundings need serious and complete action. We are not talking about an isolated problem, but a set of deficiencies affecting municipal facilities, leisure areas, sports spaces, gardens, and basic safety elements,” states Hernández.
The motion presented by the PSOE includes the need to carry out "a comprehensive technical inspection of the building and its annexed infrastructures", including roofs, bathrooms, basement, facilities, playground, ball courts, gardens, cisterns, and other municipal spaces in the area.
The Socialist Group highlights the general state of conservation of the Mancha Blanca Teleclub, with bathrooms out of service for months due to breakdowns and leaks, as well as significant water infiltration in different areas of the building.
Especially serious, according to the PSOE's complaint, is the situation of the building's basement, where dampness, crumbling, and evident deterioration caused by continuous water ingress are observed. “Jesús Machín and Coalición Canaria cannot continue to look the other way in a situation that affects the safety of users and the conservation of a municipal infrastructure for public use,” affirms Begoña Hernández.
The motion also calls for action on the playground located in the vicinity of the municipal facilities, which shows deteriorated play equipment, damage to the pavement, and a general state of conservation that requires urgent intervention.
“The spaces intended for children must be in adequate condition. It is the responsibility of the City Council to guarantee that a playground is safe, accessible, and correctly maintained,” underlines the socialist spokesperson.
The PSOE of Tinajo also focuses on the adjacent ball courts, which present accessibility problems when the facilities are closed to the public, in addition to drainage and leakage deficiencies that cause flooding when it rains, making it difficult for residents to use them.
Conditioning of cisterns to collect rainwater
Likewise, the socialist party calls for the recovery of the surrounding gardens, affected by the lack of maintenance and irrigation, as well as the cleaning and conditioning of the existing rainwater collection cisterns in the area, with the aim of allowing their use for irrigation of green areas.
In this regard, Begoña Hernández considers it necessary for the City Council to advance in real criteria of sustainability and efficiency in the management of public resources. “It is not enough to talk about sustainability while abandoning infrastructure that could be used to save water and improve the maintenance of green spaces,” she points out.
The socialist proposal also warns of the state of some cistern covers, whose deterioration can pose a risk to the safety of minors using the nearby playground and to all users of the area.
Therefore, the PSOE requests that the City Council carry out a comprehensive technical inspection, draft a rehabilitation and improvement project for the Teleclub of Mancha Blanca and its surroundings, and seek funding both with municipal resources and through other public administrations to execute the priority actions as quickly as possible.
The motion also proposes that said project include measures to improve energy efficiency and sustainability, studying the feasibility of incorporating self-consumption energy systems and the use of cisterns for irrigation of gardens and green areas.
“Mancha Blanca deserves answers, investment, and planning. Jesús Machín and Coalición Canaria have the obligation to take care of the public facilities of the municipality, listen to the demands of the neighbors, and act before the deterioration continues to advance,” concludes Begoña Hernández.