The President of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Pedro San Ginés, held a new coordination meeting this Wednesday morning with the mayors of the seven municipalities, in which one of the topics discussed was the surveillance of the beaches.
Within this meeting, the agreement reached this Tuesday in the Executive Committee of the Security and Emergency Consortium was ratified, formed by the seven town councils, the Autonomous Government and the Cabildo, which, in an extraordinary session and by a large majority, agreed that the town councils assume in 2012 the competence that "is their own", regarding the beach surveillance service.
From the Consortium, it was also clarified that said surveillance service "has always been and continues to be a municipal competence and, in this sense, the Town Councils have agreed to what the Consortium, at the request in this case of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, had been proposing to directly assume their powers in this area, or assume the necessary financing of this service through the Consortium itself".
Currently, the financial contribution to the Security and Emergency Consortium made by its nine members, the seven Town Councils, the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the Government of the Canary Islands, is not even sufficient to cover the Consortium's own competences and for what it was created, such as the fire prevention and extinction service, rescue of people, civil protection and control and coordination center for the Island's resources and emergencies with the greatest security guarantees, among others, according to reports from the Cabildo. That is why, by a large majority and decision of its members, it was agreed in said Committee that, as of the next year 2012, the Town Councils will assume the municipal beach surveillance service, as they had been doing in previous years.
Other matters
In this new meeting, the highest institutional representatives of Lanzarote have once again discussed issues such as the co-financing of the Lanzarote Foreign Promotion Society (SPEL) and the planned calendar has been detailed in reference to all island planning and the Special Territorial Plan (PTE). In this regard, the president of the Cabildo expects that the new Island Plan will be approved during the first quarter of 2012.
Similarly, during the meeting, there was talk of financing and the commitment to invest between the Cabildo and the Town Councils 2 million euros for water supply networks, which added to the million euros from the Government of the Canary Islands and the surpluses from the Island Water Council, the public investment in this priority area of action could reach 4 million euros.
Finally, the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Pedro San Ginés, has summoned the mayors to a new meeting to be held in January to agree on the actions and investments to be carried out with the eleven million euros of the Tourist Infrastructure Plan.
