The mayor, Óscar Noda, personally informed the Island Water Council of Lanzarote this Tuesday that the Yaiza City Council “is able to guarantee two million euros to execute the long-delayed sanitation project of the coastal town of El Golfo.”
Noda argued his decision, recalling within the General Board of the entity, which includes the Cabildo of Lanzarote, the seven city councils and social agents, that “the State subsidy of one million euros must be executed and justified before November 25 of this year, so there is no material time to meet this deadline, because at most only the works would be awarded by that date.”
Óscar Noda assured that “in the monitoring commission of the State, Cabildo and City Council it was clear that there would be no further extension of the subsidy, and that is why since last year, when we sent the update of project prices to the presidency of the Island Council, the Island Water Council and also the Consortium, which already in November last year was around 1.6 million, we demanded greater diligence from the competent entities to finalize the processing of all permits and tender the works.”
The mayor also reiterated that “from the moment we incorporate the municipal treasury surpluses, we will reserve a budget of 2 million euros to execute the project and the town will take a leap in environmental quality and well-being.” It should be remembered that the delay of the El Golfo sanitation project has also meant that Yaiza has postponed the resurfacing of the town's main avenue, but in any case, the mayor does not rule out carrying out a provisional action to improve the road “because it is in a deplorable state that neither the residents, nor the restaurants, nor the visitors deserve, just as they do not deserve the intervention in the sinkhole on the Los Hervideros road to remain in limbo.”
The Yaiza City Council drafted the El Golfo sanitation project, obtained the financing, sent it to all the competent administrations for the issuance of the mandatory environmental reports, requested the extension of the subsidy and modified a part of the project in response to a requirement from Costas, “in such a way that we are surprised by the effective will of the president of the Cabildo and all the parties involved in this commission, which is not from Óscar Noda, which is for the benefit of the town, the municipality and Lanzarote. The one who has always conveyed his concern to me is the Councilor for Water of the Cabildo, Domingo Cejas.”
