The council endows with 60 million euros to the Municipal Cooperation Plan 2022-2025. From the 48 of the previous program the budget rises by twelve, which represents an increase of 25 percent. The Island Government Council processed this week the planning document that will be endorsed by the plenary session as the last administrative step.
In this sense, the island president, Pedro Martín, influenced the municipalist vocation of the current government team, as well as “in the multiple plans and lines of intervention launched” by the Island Corporation, “in areas as fundamental as housing, attention to the social emergency, employment or the purification and sanitation of residual waters». The intention when planning the actions is to “facilitate the work and strengthen the alliances with all the municipalities of the Islandwhom we are supporting like never before.”
For his part, the island councilor for Municipal Cooperation and Housing, Zebenzuí Chinea, highlights “the broad consensus reached with the island’s 31 city councils, with whom we have been meeting periodically to carry out this Plan, which will allow us to attend more effectively the needs of citizens and, in addition, continue generating employment and economy”.
One million linear.
According to the island official, one million euros will be allocated linearly to each municipality, while the remaining 29 million will be distributed following the distribution criteria established by the Canarian Federation of Municipalities (Fecam). Among other aspects, the population or the regional geography will be taken into account to carry out the distribution of the global amount budgeted by the Cabildo.
Water cycle.
The 2022-2025 program contemplates, as novelty, carrying out works on municipal infrastructures and the water cycle, in addition to works on sanitation, which were already included in the previous plan. The objective of the new document is to reduce the deficit of urban sanitation infrastructures on the Island of Tenerife and bring them closer to compliance with the European Directive. The purpose is to protect the environment from contamination derived from discharges of sewage or industrial water and in this sense to preserve inland and coastal waters.
Financing.
The financing of the Cabildo will vary depending on the population of the municipality. In this way, 90 percent will be paid for by the insular institution in those with less than 20,000 inhabitants, which are the priority; 80 percent in those municipalities with between 20,000 and 50,000, and 50 percent in those towns with more than 50,000 inhabitants.
A single work.
Each municipality may carry out a single work, although it is possible that the project includes several actions. Exceptionally, the Cabildo will authorize the execution of two works for all those municipalities that undertake to tender and develop one of the two proposed. Zebenzuí Chinea highlights the importance of cooperation plans to boost the economic activity of the municipalities and generate employment.
