The municipal government presided over by Óscar Noda summoned residents of El Golfo this Tuesday at the Casa de la Cultura in Yaiza to explain in detail the town's sanitation project drafted by the local Administration, which is currently out to tender and whose deadline for submitting offers expires on May 23.
The Cabildo of Lanzarote acts as the contracting body and at the meeting, the mayor also announced the infrastructure investments planned in said coastal town and other actions of common interest of supra-municipal competence that Yaiza claims before the corresponding institutions.
Among the actions planned by Yaiza for El Golfo, Óscar Noda informed the population about the proposal to acquire a two-story building located on the town's main avenue to turn it into a social club for public use. “We have already appraised the building and conveyed our interest to the property to negotiate its purchase. The social club would be the great meeting point for residents, a comfortable place where they can develop their activities and those programmed by the City Council. When we incorporated treasury surpluses and approved this year's budget, we explained that we had items for the purchase of properties and plots,” noted the mayor.
This building is not the only infrastructure of an individual that interests Yaiza to put it at the service of citizens in El Golfo. Óscar Noda also reported on the disused court that can be seen at the entrance of the town, which the City Council intends to acquire for its total rehabilitation: “the idea is to buy the plot and build a multi-purpose court there with fencing, as we have done in other towns. The problem is that there is no land available in El Golfo, so the purchase formula is a way to update facilities.”
Regarding the sanitation project, the mayor and the technical engineer of public works answered all citizen concerns, including the location of the underground pumping station, the treatment plant located in the upper part of the town and the interior works that the owners of the properties would have to carry out to connect to the network and thus achieve the environmental quality leap that the project pursues.
The sinkhole on the Los Hervideros road was another of the great neighborhood concerns. The mayor, map in hand, described the works planned by the Cabildo at a cost of 8 million euros. “From the moment the incident was presented, we said that the best solution was to change the layout of the road while more ambitious alternatives were studied and executed. Time passes and the road remains closed and the damage continues for the restaurant businesses in El Golfo. The added problem is that we don't know if the Cabildo has the 8 million to execute the project they showed us.”
