The municipalities of Candelaria, Arafo and Güímar as well as the Cabildo de Tenerife finalize the constitution of the Consortium of the Valle de Güímar Industrial Estate, an organization that will assume the conservation and maintenance of the complex. To complete the process, the administrations will have to define both the representation and the financial contributions of each of the four members. In this regard, the Island Corporation acquired, in December, the commitment to prepare an economic study of the cost of maintaining the Polygon, which will serve as a basis to define how much each municipality and the Cabildo will contribute.
The mayor of Arafo, Juan Ramón Martín, announces that Valle de Güímar is awaiting the response to the joint proposal formulated by the three city councils, whose municipal plenary sessions are approving (Arafo will do so today) the agreement proposed by the Cabildo de Tenerife.
Candelaria, Arafo and Güímar propose that the relevant issues –which they will also have to define– require the support of “a qualified majority”, meaning around 60% (two thirds) of the representatives. “Everyday” issues would require a simple majority for approval. In the opinion of the arafero councilor, “this requires consensus.”
The consortium members are studying the formula with which to give participation in this body to the business community of the most important industrial area of the Island. “We want them to have a voice because, in the end, they are the residents of that neighborhood,” says Martín.
Regarding the Chiguengue well, which is part of the property transferred to the municipalities when the municipalities received the Valle de Güímar Industrial Estate, “it will become one of the assets of the Consortium and, therefore, a source of financing.” At present, it is the Polígono itself that maintains the management of the well, “which will pass to the new body from the moment its constitution is formalized,” explained the mayor of Arafo.
