They employ more than two million of the remainder in two phases. Do they choose the works for their urgency?
Yes. With the first, we are working on sanitation in El Pilón, the water purification center of Playa San Juan, we are promoting parking; the asphalting plan for the medianía with actions in Guía de Isora, Chío, Chiguergue, Tejina, Acojeja, Aripe and Chirche; the Multifunctional Center in El Calvario de Guía and the adaptation of the wake rooms to the legislation in Tejina, Chío, Alcalá, Playa San Juan and Guía casco; in addition to lighting in Méndez (Alcalá). With the second we are going to acquire two sweepers, a vehicle for the Local Police, the paddle tennis courts, the renovation of urban furniture, the elevators of the Guía and Chiguergue Cultural Center, the works in the schools, the Playa pumping station San Juan and the increase in emergency aid, as well as the improvement of playgrounds.
Within this framework, there are also works in collaboration with other administrations.
With the Cabildo we have the El Pilón car park and the second phase of El Emigrante avenue. Then there is the Alcalá crossing.
You are one of the policies committed to sustainable development.
Within the framework of the Covenant of Mayors, we study the lines of work to be developed in the municipality in conditions related to traffic pressure and mobility. Now we prepare the document of the actions to be executed. This is the case of the energy audit, which leads us to invest around three million in renovating and modernizing public lighting in a municipality affected by the Sky Law. All lighting projects here must have the approval of the Instituto de Astrofísico de Canarias (IAC). We are also working on the line of implementing the fifth container, in the case of the cleaning service, and we support the agricultural transition towards organic products, promoting the zero kilometer product and promoting its presence in the markets. It is a work of balance between agricultural and tourist development with respect for the landscape.
Speaking of tourism, it seems that Guía de Isora wants to be a sports tourist destination.
We are an accessible municipality for combined sports events, aquathlon and triathlon. These events and other cycling events have been consolidated, the climb to Guía, the Sailing School, which has given us many joys, clubs that win prizes, a surfing championship, tennis and golf competitions … We offer many sports opportunities that they begin to attract the attention of athletes and federations. From the City Council we greatly promote sports activity.
Hence the Municipal School of Leisure and Sports begins.
It is one of the projects whose growth forced us to divide it into Culture and Sports. It offers the opportunity to be active during almost the entire school year in the remarkable network of municipal centers. Entertains, forms and helps maintain health.
Another challenge. MiradasDoc celebrates its fifteenth edition.
Who’d say! It is a project that has gone through many vicissitudes and that is now consolidated and in a great moment. We work all year on it. We believe that Guía de Isora is a benchmark in Canarian documentary and in order to consolidate a stable formation within what the festival itself can be.
In what situation are the four planned tourism projects?
Some more advanced than others. We hope that next year we will see urbanization works and, in some cases, the hotel itself. Interest remains clear and I believe that we are entering a more stable moment that will allow commissioning in two or three years.
Something happens with Guía de Isora because its two hotels only closed during the quarantine.
Palacio de Isora and Abama have been brave and have taken risks. It is true that at the beginning they were not very busy, but they had a much better summer and expectations are good.
Are they aware of the relevance of their coastal model?
When we bet on the regeneration of the coastline, it was because it gave citizens more accessibility. We have seen that what has been done generates a lot of interest and this year we noticed a lot of pressure. This leads us to continue developing the area as we proposed it, I think in an exemplary way, and looking for alternatives to issues such as caravans. Always from the fulfillment of the law and the municipal ordinance, something that not everyone does.
You have to keep asking when will the nursing home.
It is the most desired. We work side by side with the Cabildo so that the improvement of electricity is tendered before the end of the year, to undertake the equipment and management. We hope to see it open next year. It is a project that we have proposed since the beginning of the socialist governments and it was this City Council that began with the investment.
The lack of social and sanitary beds is one of the great deficits of the region …
I hope that the hospital becomes a hospital, something that the Cabildo and the Canarian Government are working on. There the socio-sanitary center was raised, which is necessary and can be the answer. This deficit here is historical. It has cost us horrors that the administrations are sensitive and we have had to shoot for municipal bets, without having powers. Now I see sensitivity in the Cabildo to balance the Island.
What is the X-ray left by the pandemic in Guía de Isora?
The demand for aid and unemployment are still important, but everything is improving slightly with the reincorporation of people to the services and tourism sector. We continue working on all the employment projects that we can, in all the opportunities that arise and with all the lines of aid that exist. We do it with the Canarian Government and with the Cabildo and we incorporate much more municipal money to rescue as many unemployed as possible through the projects, whose duration we extend up to one year to encourage them to receive some benefit. Now we want to develop a municipal project based on the new line established by the regional government.
This is Guía de Isora and here is Fonsalía. Is the port project moving away?
We are in other times and, bearing in mind that this is not for tomorrow, we must abandon the extremes of yes or no and give ourselves the opportunity for a calm debate. It is the opportunity to make the pertinent evaluations, to work together with the Ministry, the Canarian Government and the Cabildo, with the contributions that the municipality can make, to evaluate all the possibilities for it to be developed in Guía de Isora. The realization of the necessary infrastructures for Tenerife and the Canary Islands does not have to be incompatible with the protection of the environment. Guía de Isora has shown that theirs are respectful with the environment and of quality. We do not want projects that do not contemplate all the measures to protect the environment. What I ask with Fonsalía is a serious and calm work in which those of the yes and those of the no propose possible and viable alternatives, studying the protection of the environment and the needs of Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. The press conference of the Cabildo and the Canary Islands Government are already carrying out serious work.
This week an Isorano, Héctor Gómez, became a spokesman for the PSOE in Congress. Who’d say?
It doesn’t surprise me at all. I have worked a lot with him. He is a very hard-working person, very serious and loyal. It has grown dramatically and all Isorans are proud to have such an important representation in the party and in the national government. I know that it will defend the interests of the Canary Islands. We are also fortunate that we have Pedro (Martín) in the Presidency of the Cabildo. Everything means that Guía de Isora is in relevant positions that can help its development and, above all, Tenerife and the Canary Islands.
