We are getting used to seeing the characteristic orange sign with the legend "FOR TRANSFER" on the doors and windows of Arrecife's shops. It is evident that traditional, local and specialized commerce is not having its best moment in Arrecife, neither in the center nor in the neighborhoods of the city.
Economic crisis, eternal works and terrible decisions in terms of mobility have led to the fact that our commerce needs something more than obsolete revitalization policies.
But not only the commercial fabric has the transfer sign on it. The Arrecife City Council also has it hanging on its facade. The institution of our capital has stopped performing its function for a long time because a city council, if we understand it as the institution closest to the citizen, must respond to their needs and offer both the administration of resources and the provision of essential services.
A municipality has three essential elements: territory, population and organization. Let's analyze Arrecife.
Is the territory abandoned? Of course it is, not only because of the planning -approved in the last century- but because within the management of the territory is the urban environment that is essential and to which no attention is paid either. You don't have to do anything more than visit the parks and gardens of the city, because I'm not even going to go into the waste management that has reached such a level of neglect that it deserves a separate article.
Do the population feel abandoned? If situations of social need are not evaluated and addressed; if sport and culture are not promoted nor are the facilities for their realization, it is evident that they do. Traffic, mobility and collective transport are still a pending issue. Of course we, the citizens, feel abandoned! And even more if we add that our festivals and traditions cease to be celebrated and celebrated.
And as for the organization, seeing what has been said above, it is deduced that there is no organization. Arrecife does not have its urban planning tool approved and adapted to the current reality. The budgets, which are the economic tool through which a government puts its policies into practice, are still not approved. Thus it is impossible to propose projects for Arrecife. And most importantly, the misnamed "human resources", the city council workers on a war footing, with decrees, without RPT and with mobilizations and stoppages.
After all that has been said, it is clear that our municipality needs to be transferred, that a new administrator leases it, that they save it from imminent ruin and that it does not have to suffer the same fate as many shops and businesses in the municipality that have been forced to close.
Arrecife needs a group of people who bring management capacity, enthusiasm and of course willingness to work.
#AnotherArrecifeIsPossible
By Dacil Garcias, spokesperson for the Popular Party in the Arrecife City Council
