Arafo will allocate the 462,000 euros of its municipal savings -positive remnant of the 2021 budget- to a specific plan for the improvement and paving of seven rural roads, Calzada Alta, Calzada Baja, Barranquillo, Camino de Borrega, La Choza, El Natero and Ajafoña, in addition to a game for road cleaning.
This investment was approved in the plenary session on Wednesday, where also, a month and a half after being initially approved, the Budget for the current year was definitively approved, which totals 8,575,992 euros, highlighting that, For the first time in 11 years, after leaving his debt to zero, he will be able to allocate money to investment, albeit in a modest way, 318,417 euros.
The municipal accounts were approved by the government group (CC-AiA and PSOE), while the Partido Popular and Izquierda Unida voted against it, citing “lack of consensus” to justify their rejection.
Mayor Juan Ramón Martín acknowledges that the investment chapter “is not very important, but it reflects the modest economic recovery of the municipality.” Within these investments, the money allocated to the proportional part that the City Council must assume within the Municipal Cooperation plans with the Cabildo stands out, to carry out sanitation works in the upper part of the Carmen neighborhood, which will soon be put out to tender. The priority works plan will also be completed, such as the roof of the municipal sports center and the reorganization of the Andrés Orozco school area, the construction of niches in the cemetery and completing the money that the Cabildo is going to allocate in the Casa de la Miel, to finish the work before the end of the year. Likewise, there will be accessibility works at the kiosk in Plaza San Juan Degollado and the interior electrification of the soccer field.
Only the Left presented arguments to this budget, in which it demanded to suppress expenses in trusted personnel, protocol, representative services, publicity, leasing of premises, and contracting of external studies, to allocate them in four alternative projects. All of IU’s allegations were denied.
sewage treatment plants
Also, as happened the previous week in Candelaria -Güímar would be missing, who still has doubts-, the full arafero approved the agreement with the Insular Water Council for the maintenance of the Edaru and the Edari, as well as the new plan of stages of the emissary of the polygon. PP and IU abstained.
