This week, the Yaiza City Council sent a letter with images to the Department of Public Works and the Planning and Project Coordination Unit of the Lanzarote Council requesting actions regarding the cleaning of road margins, cleaning of gardens, pruning of palm trees, and installation of irrigation networks for their conservation and that of other species on municipal roads, "whose maintenance is the responsibility of the first island corporation."
The southern mayor shares the opinion of the council's vice president, Jacobo Medina, who stated that this year he valued the maintenance service for road margins and garden areas as “fundamental to improve the cleanliness and beautification of areas as sensitive as our roads, their margins, and the garden areas.”
Consistent with this purpose, Yaiza asks the Cabildo's Roads Unit for actions aimed at removing waste, eliminating gorse and invasive species, as well as leveling and raking the margins of the island's roads, some of which have a deplorable image. The City Council also makes a new call for citizen awareness so that road users refrain from throwing cans, bottles or any type of waste.
Municipal action in Uga
The pruning and cleaning of palm trees is another of the municipal demands transferred to the Cabildo. The City Council requests the maintenance and beautification of garden areas to prevent their degradation. However, the local administration states that it has just completed conservation work on gardens, pruning of palm trees and irrigation, at the entrance to Uga. “If in a specific case such as Uga an urgent intervention is necessary, the City Council has no problem acting, as it has done and will continue to do, but it is our duty to transmit the current situation to the institution and the competent councilor,” emphasizes the mayor of Yaiza.
In this same objective of conserving plant species, Yaiza also points out to the Cabildo the need to install irrigation networks to improve the beautification of road margins in a much more efficient way. "We have always defended, and with facts, inter-administrative collaboration, because we understand it as an essential way of joining efforts to respond to citizen demands,” says Óscar Noda.
