The Popular Party (PP) has obtained an investment of 1.3 million euros for Los Realejos thanks to the amendments presented to the insular budget, which led to support for its approval and thus guarantee governability on the Island, although “they are not the accounts that the PP would have presented”.
This was confirmed yesterday by the mayor, Adolfo González, and the candidate for the Cabildo de Tenerife, Lope Afonso, during a press conference in which they explained that this investment will be allocated to three fundamental projects for the municipality that had not materialized.
The first of these is the rehabilitation of the San Agustín school, to which 400,000 euros will be allocated to be able to tender the work next year and convert the property, acquired by the City Council, into the headquarters of the Los Realejos Philharmonic and into a room of studies, recalled the mayor.
Another project is the process to begin construction of the new swimming pool and sports complex, once the economic feasibility study has been completed. “This municipality has never benefited from the Insular Swimming Pool Plan. Los Realejos was relegated because it already had an installation, but it needed a new resource, because with the large number of users it has become obsolete, ”he declared. The 800,000 euros from the Cabildo will be used to undertake a public works concession, a mixed investment in which the administration and the private party will carry out a work that amounts to 4 million euros.
The third amendment entails an endowment of 100,000 euros for the deployment of fiber optics in the nucleus of Icod El Alto, an important resource for domestic use and for commercial and business development. “If it had not been for these amendments, Los Realejos would hardly have been able to develop these vitally important projects,” González stressed.
Marina and fishing port
For his part, Lope Afonso justified his party’s support for next year’s Cabildo accounts with the commitment that certain projects “needed to be featured in next year’s budgets.” Among them, he highlighted the sports, commercial, fishing and tourist port of Puerto de la Cruz, which he considered a priority infrastructure for the development of Tenerife and for which one million euros is allocated, in order to update the projects, “Because, with the time that has elapsed and the inaction shown so far, we run the risk that what we have done in the past mandate is not viable. Hence, the consignment is sufficient to stage things that are viable to execute.
In any case, “the first step to resume the project was for the Cabildo to recognize that it is once again the promoter of it, assuming the updates and that next year the roadmap will be resumed,” stressed the PP candidate.
