The decision is not new. The same agreement was reached in the last plenary session of the previous term in the Teguise Town Hall, in March 2007. However, after more than a year, both the Town Hall and the UCCT maintained their separate powers in the tourist area of the municipality. Now, both parties understand that this process of dissolution and transfer of powers cannot be extended beyond one year.
The president of this entity, Bernard Gaziello, denounced a few days ago the poor economic situation of the body that for years has been in charge of providing cleaning and maintenance services in the urbanization. The debts of the Town Hall and Algol are, together with other minor debts of the owners, the main causes that have led to the financial drowning of the UCCT, according to the president.
Gaziello understands that this agreement was necessary because the UCCT cannot maintain the level of services it has provided until now, although he regrets that it has had to come to this. In fact, he assures that the entity was "overwhelmed" because "it cannot do its job well if the Town Hall does not assume the 40 percent that corresponds to it of the financing of this body" and predicted a not very encouraging future for both the UCCT and Costa Teguise, because they were "going to have to leave one of the services we do, either the garbage collection or the cleaning of the area".
Regarding the immediate future, there are many doubts that both the UCCT and the Town Hall maintain and are waiting for a business legal office to determine how to carry out the transfer of powers and, above all, to clarify to what extent the Town Hall should assume the staff of workers of the Union for the Conservation of Costa Teguise. Another of the issues to be determined and fundamental for both parties is to know what will happen with the debts that are maintained with the entity. Some of them, such as those of Algol, are subject to judicial processes.
For Bernard Gaziello, it is essential that in any case the Town Hall commits to assume the staff of the UCCT and as for the debt, he estimates that if the Corporation assumes it, it should invest those amounts entirely in the improvement of Costa Teguise.
