The mayors of Yaiza, Tías, San Bartolomé and Haría have decided not to attend the Water Consortium Assembly of Lanzarote scheduled for this Monday at 11:00 a.m. at the headquarters of the Cabildo of Lanzarote. This was reported in a press release in which they added that "many and of different kinds" are the reasons why they decided not to appear after "the hasty call" by its president, Oswaldo Betancort.
The mayors, as common points, argue that this call is "hasty", since no one from Oswaldo Betancort's team had contacted them to plan the date of the Assembly in a consensual manner or so that the town councils could request "the inclusion of various issues that are of interest to the Water Consortium".
“The president seems to forget that the mayors have a planned and closed agenda for weeks and that it is as important to maintain the municipal agenda as the island agenda, and if instead of calling at his whim he had warned us in advance, perhaps we would have found the ideal date to hold this important Assembly”, the four mayors maintain.
The mayors have denounced "the lack of documentation on various transcendental points on the agenda and the short margin granted by the presidency for their study." In this sense, they highlighted that, "in the best of cases, the documentation was delivered last Friday after 2:00 p.m., something that curtails the right to information to be able to oversee the work of the Island Water Consortium itself and its operation, as well as to be able to carry out the detailed study of each point that the president intends to approve."
In another order of things, the mayors have stated that "they do not understand or share the rush to convene this Assembly with such urgency" since, during Oswaldo Betancort's term, only two sessions have been held and that "during all this time no information has been provided on controversial issues such as the reasons for the dismissal of the previous manager of the Consortium, nor has information been provided on the lawsuits that the entity maintains and the situation of its accounts, credits and subsidies."
“He has not informed the consortium entities of the meeting held last week at the headquarters of Canal Isabel II in Madrid, nor of the agreements reached or the result thereof, something very little transparent, a quite opaque gesture that unfortunately is in line with the ways of proceeding of the current president of the Cabildo”, they indicated.
For his part, the mayor of San Bartolomé, Isidro Pérez, stated “that an island information session on the preliminary draft of the Law on Sustainable Planning of the Tourist Use of Housing of the FECAM has been convened for this Monday for weeks, in which we will have the participation of the Director General of Planning, Training and Tourism Promotion of the Ministry of Tourism and Employment of the Government of the Canary Islands, Don Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Martínez, with the aim of presenting the aforementioned text to local corporations and all the mayors of the Island must be there, as it is a problem that worries us and that is widespread”.
In short, and "to delve into the nonsense into which Oswaldo Betancort's ways and manners have plunged", from Yaiza they have denounced that a letter registered by the mayor, Óscar Noda, has been ignored, in which he claimed that this Assembly "could be postponed a few days or at least a few hours, since, according to the consistory, "the mayor himself warned in that letter of the coincidence of an ordinary plenary session on the same day and at the same time in Yaiza."
“I would love to think that he has not done it premeditatedly and that he would attend to Yaiza's request to postpone said Assembly for the reasons given, but if I have learned anything in these ten months of Oswaldo Betancort's government, it is that institutional loyalty, the word and consensus are mere chimeras for him”, Óscar Noda concluded.
