The mayor of Güímar, Gustavo Pérez, promised yesterday in an extraordinary plenary session requested by the PP, to extend the term and the economic amount of 2,500 euros to the seven families evicted from Las Bajas for more than a year for emergency works not finished and that are prosecuted for cost overruns. Families who have had to leave their rented apartments since then, because since September the real estate agencies have not charged, with releases, such as that of Ana and her two children, for this same Monday.
“Rental aid has always been present and I assume that there will be exceptions to the ordinance to deal with the damage caused by the work,” Pérez commented in plenary, knowing that the ordinance has to be changed so that the City Council can be the one to take charge of the rents as there is no social exclusion of the beneficiaries.
“The process of the work is entrenched and will end up in court, I am afraid that it does not have a prompt solution”, acknowledged the mayor. The PP, meanwhile, warned that it will take the complex file to the Prosecutor’s Office.
Another of the issues discussed was the remodeling project for the Plaza del Ayuntamiento and its surroundings, for some 700,000 euros, with the controversy surrounding the replacement of the Jordan de Güímar sculpture with a three-meter-high pyramid. Pérez contradicted the first deputy mayor Airam Puerta: “I forcefully say that a pyramid is not going to be built in the square.”
pool cover
The Cabildo de Tenerife has completed the repair work on the roof of the Güímar regional swimming pool, worth 196,702 euros. This action, included in the Insular Swimming Pool Program, has been financed by the Insular Corporation, while the City Council assumed the costs of drafting the project (11,840 euros).
