The Tinajo Renewal Movement has managed to get the City Council Plenary to approve two motions that will mean "an important change of image for the municipality". On the one hand, the Corporation has committed to execute a comprehensive paving and repaving plan, first doing a study of all the roads that require an intervention.
“There are streets that have been in very poor condition for years and that are the responsibility of the municipality. And among other things, the residents pay their taxes precisely to have them fixed and improved”, stressed the councilor and president of the party, Antonio Morales, who defended this initiative before the Plenary and managed to get it approved.
In addition, a motion also prospered along the same lines, but focused on improving sidewalks and public lighting, also adapting it to current regulations. “There are many areas where the sidewalks are in a deplorable state. A clear example is the Avenida de Los Volcanes, where you can barely walk”, Morales highlighted.
Regarding the lampposts, he denounces that there are "old, rusty and in many cases broken lampposts throughout the municipality". “We raised the same thing as the paving: that a plan be drawn up and that it begin to be executed”, explains the councilor of the Tinajo Renewal Movement, who also saw this proposal approved.
The third motion that the party brought to the Plenary this Wednesday demanded that the City Council subsidize the purchase of electric vehicles and that subsidies, aid or compensation be granted to residents who install photovoltaic energy.
In this case, the mayor argued that the issue is currently being studied in the FECAM, to unify criteria in all the municipalities of the Canary Islands and define how these aid would be articulated. Finally, this motion was left on the table and the mayor promised to report on how these conversations are progressing in this body.
No explanations about the La Santa shelter and Montañas del Fuego
Looking ahead to this ordinary Plenary, the Tinajo Renewal Movement had also requested two appearances by the mayor, one to give explanations about the agreement with the Cabildo for Montañas de Fuego and another about the La Santa shelter. However, despite the fact that the party submitted the request in January, the appearances had not been included in the agenda of the session.
“We are surprised that two issues that are of so much interest to the municipality have not been included”, Antonio Morales questioned. And it is that although the mayor apologized for this omission, alleging that they were “distracted”, the councilor wonders if Jesús Machín “is not interested in the truth of these two issues being known”.
Regarding Montañas de Fuego, the party wanted to know what the situation is and what the terms of the agreement that the City Council is proposing to the Cabildo are, since "it is being talked about in the media but the opposition has not been provided with any type of documentation or information".
Regarding the La Santa shelter, which has been hosting unaccompanied foreign minors for some time, the Tinajo Renewal Movement asked the mayor to explain “what the situation is, how the file is and what he has officially discussed with the Cabildo and with the Government of the Canary Islands”, but regrets that the government group did not include that appearance on the agenda either, despite the fact that it had been requested "in a timely manner".
