The Lanzarote Water Consortium will submit this Friday, November 13, to its General Assembly a first file for extrajudicial recognition of credits for the amount of 1,082,707 euros, intended for the payment of services and supplies provided after the recovery of the direct management of the integral water cycle. This is the first batch of invoices from a process that will continue in future assemblies, to which new files will be submitted for approval and subsequent payment.
The proposal responds to the exceptional circumstances that accompanied the reversion of the Canal Gestión service to the Consortium, effective since last June 2nd. The need to keep the facilities operational and guarantee the supply forced the immediate continuation of maintenance work, auxiliary services, and essential supplies that until then were provided to the previous concessionaire.
The president of the Cabildo and the Water Consortium, Oswaldo Betancort, highlights that “the trust of the companies was fundamental to maintain the service at a time of enormous difficulty. They continued working and supplying materials when it was most needed, and we want to publicly thank them for their commitment to Lanzarote and La Graciosa”.
Betancort points out that “this first file will allow us to meet part of those economic obligations. In the next assemblies, new batches of invoices will be brought forward to respond to the companies that contributed to sustaining an essential service for the population”.
The assumption of management required immediately facing technical, operational, and administrative responsibilities of great complexity. In this context, different companies maintained their services despite the uncertainty of the change and that the corresponding administrative contracts with the Consortium had not initially been formalized.
The Minister of Water of the Cabildo, Domingo Cejas, explains that “the desalination plants, the networks, and the sanitation and purification facilities needed to keep running every day. This required maintaining supplies, repairs, and indispensable work while direct management was organized and the necessary contracting was processed”.
Cejas adds that “behind these invoices are services and supplies actually provided. The companies responded in an exceptional situation and our responsibility is to process their payment with the required administrative and budgetary guarantees”.
The extrajudicial recognition of credits allows for the approval of economic obligations corresponding to those benefits. The file incorporates the supporting documentation, the procedures for omitting the intervention function, and the corresponding legal and economic reports.
The Consortium will continue processing the following files to advance the payment of outstanding invoices and the administrative normalization of the service. The institution emphasizes that the collaboration of the suppliers has been decisive in facing the first months of direct management and maintaining the operation of the integral water cycle in Lanzarote and La Graciosa.
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