The PSOE returned to take to the Control Commission what is happening with the scooters in Santa Cruz. On this occasion, he questioned the Councilor for Mobility, Evelyn Alonso, for the technical reports on which she relied to stop charging the fee for removing scooters from the municipal deposit. An appearance in which Unidos Podemos released the data provided by the City Council in response to a question about the number of incidents that had occurred with scooters in Santa Cruz during 2021. According to these figures, from June and until the first week of In January of this 2022 almost 300 incidents were recorded.
As for the reason for Alonso’s appearance, the Councilor for Mobility insisted that “you cannot charge something that does not exist” in relation to the fact that the Santa Cruz City Council’s tax ordinance does not include personal mobility vehicles. In addition, she insisted that the decision not to charge these fees, which will begin to be required once the municipal ordinance is modified, “has been made by the company that manages the service and will therefore not cost the municipal coffers. ”. Alonso also defended that he did not need a report to make the decision not to charge the fee, since the impossibility of doing so was verbally transmitted to him by the technicians.
Former mayor Patricia Hernández demanded from the councilor the report on which she has relied to stop charging the fee, since “it was charged until November, when it stopped being done.” “What person, or technician, did you rely on to stop charging,” insisted Hernández, who ended up pointing out that “we will act accordingly if you do not provide that report.”
From United We Can, the councilor was asked to be “serious” with an issue that is causing serious damage to citizens. “If the City Council is not forceful with the breaches, these will increase,” said Yaiza Gorrín. The UP councilor pointed out that, according to the data provided by the City Council itself, the incidents with scooters involved have clearly grown in Santa Cruz since last June. Thus, according to the data she offered, between June and September, 21 incidents with scooters were recorded, while from October to the first week of January 2022, that figure was 277.
On the part of Cs, her spokesperson, Matilde Zambudio, highlighted the contradictions in which, in her opinion, Evelyn Alonso fell. “I do not share the message that it sends that nothing happens because it does not cost the City Council that the fee is not charged because the complaints show that something does happen.”
Alonso defended that the Local Police continue to do their job, sanctioning “fines that are charged” and “removing scooters that are left parked incorrectly or are misused.”
