The Yaiza City Council will fight for the financial records of different annuities intended for the execution of municipal projects associated with the Insular Plan for Cooperation in Works and Services agreed upon with the Cabildo of Lanzarote, even "going to court, if necessary," as confirmed by the mayor, Óscar Noda, in the plenary session held this Thursday at the Yaiza House of Culture, where he also reported on the content of a legal report from the Canary Federation of Municipalities, commissioned at the request of the Insular Commission of FECAM, in view of the damage that several municipalities of Lanzarote are suffering as a consequence of the refund demanded by the insular Cabildo for unexecuted projects
"We are talking about cooperation between administrations and in no case about imposition by one of them," notes the mayor of Yaiza. The FECAM report sets out the Cabildo's obligation "to justify, when definitively approving the plan, any rejection of municipal priorities, in which case it will propose to divert assistance to another work, activity or service, as long as it is part of or included in the list of priorities drawn up by the council, which may make a new specification of the proposal."The mayor maintains that "the Council has conveyed its reasons to justify why it does not accept further extensions for projects that we have not been able to carry out for technical or administrative reasons, but we have offered alternatives to execute other projects that are already drafted and ready for bidding; moreover, we also proposed the inclusion of executed assignments."
The FECAM legal report is clear: "cooperation does not entail any power of direction, a consequence of the lack of a position of superiority in which the coordinator finds themselves in relation to the coordinated party."
The curious thing, the mayor concludes, "is that the president of the Cabildo himself declared this very week that he has obtained a 'new extension' of the state agreement to prioritize hydraulic works in several municipalities of Lanzarote, a fact that pleases us, but it turns out that while he sells the agreement with the Government of Spain as a victory, he refuses to enter into new agreements with the municipalities of the Island".