The rumor of a restructuring in the Candelaria government team, with a socialist majority, had been heard for some time. The urban challenges that the municipality faces, with large projects, such as the covered swimming pool -in short, again to tender-, the municipal auditorium or the intervention in Sixto Machado’s warehouses, bought by the City Council for a little more than two million euros, have determined that the mayor Mari Brito has decided to personally take on these challenges, together with the modification -and not just revision- of the General Plan of Ordination of the municipality approved in 2006.
Thus, Brito has reordered the powers of the councilors of delegates, assuming the Urban Planning and Management from the Mayor’s Office with the aim of leading urban development at a crucial moment for the future of the municipality, “in which we will launch projects of great importance for citizens ”, he comments.
The councilor so far responsible for this area, Cecilia Otazo, will go on to hold the Department of Urban Agenda and Environmental Planning and Management, but limiting her work in licensing files, as in the announced changes, the councilor for Culture, Sports and Festivities , Manuel González, will now assume the processing and resolution of files on licenses for public shows, attractions or recreation, on public roads or land for local public use, while the Councilor for Commerce and Tourism, María del Carmen Clemente, will assume the competences related to licenses for occupation in the public domain and classified and innocuous activities.
The idea of Mari Brito is to be able to achieve, before the end of the current mandate (May 2023), the drafting of the projects for the indoor swimming pool and the auditorium and to unblock the Costas concessions for the rotary parking lot or the municipal swimming pool.
Farewell of the troops on the way to Lebanon
The Candelaria Basilica hosted yesterday morning the farewell ceremony of the Canarian troops, around one hundred soldiers and officers, who will soon travel to Lebanon on a peace mission. There they were received by the prior of the Basilica, Juan Ramón Enjamio, who wished them the best of luck and presented each soldier with a medal of the Virgin of Candelaria, as well as an image of the Patroness of the Canary Islands. to accompany them on the mission in Lebanese lands.
