The Arona City Council has been sentenced to pay two indemnities totaling more than 4 million euros for the construction of public housing on land that was not municipal property and for the non-payment of rent for the land where the IES barracks are located. Guaza.
In a statement, the Arona City Council, in the south of Tenerife, emphasizes that both sentences are related to “failed operations” during the Canary Coalition (CC) stage at the head of the corporation.
The first, he explains, is the signing of an agreement for the construction of 35 social housing units in 2008 on private land in La Camella that was never urbanized and, therefore, received. This led to a breach of the contract signed with Viviendas Sociales de Canarias (Visocan).
The second has a “more iconic” character, since it is related to the land on which the prefabricated modules of the IES de Guaza are located: the land is private and the City Council undertook to requalify them in the General Plan in exchange for occupying them.
But when the general plan is canceled, the municipality will have to pay the rents generated since 2002, which amount to 1.39 million euros.
In another statement, the PP attributes both sentences to “the incompetence and lack of management” of the mayor, José Julián Mena, and the government he leads, “lost in internal battles.”
Águeda Fumero, PP spokesperson in Arona, stresses that “the most unfortunate thing” is that these two sentences come “in an unsustainable social and economic context for many families”, and in which this money “should be dedicated to the economic recovery” of the municipality.
