The Santa Úrsula City Council approved this Friday in plenary session the organization and remuneration of the local government for the present term. The 12 members of the AISU government team will manage 32 specific areas and will have a global cost for the municipal coffers of 348,480 euros per year31% below the maximum limit allowed by law which, for a municipality with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants, is 511,104 euros.
The mayor of Santa Ursula, Juan Acosta (AISU), who personally assumes the Social Services areahas explained that the organization policy The approved new government maintains the line that has been worked on in the last four years: «The same areas remain and most of the powers have been reassigned to the councilors who had already assumed them in the previous term. Although there are some modifications, since three members of the government team have changed.
Salomé Fernández Padrón will be in charge of Sports, Leisure-Free Time and Health; José Manuel Amador Gutiérrez will manage Urbanism, road infrastructures and other equipment; Efigenia González Díaz will be in charge of Equality, Toy Library, Libraries and Education; Damián González González will be in charge of the Local Police, Civil Protection and Security, Finance and Services; Elisa Hernández Martín conserves Commerce and Tourism; José Feliciano López Hernández will lead Parties, Citizen Participation and Transparency; Ramón Jesús García Díaz will be in charge of Contracting, Human Resources and Housing; Samuel Hernández Rodríguez assumes Culture, New Technologies, Parks and Gardens; Carmen del Rosario Martín García will be in charge of Agriculture, Mobile Park and Cemetery; Marina Andrea Lorenzo de León will manage EmploymentLocal Development, Environment and Water, and Santiago Pérez Ramos assumes Public Lighting.
The local Executive includes as a novelty the creation of a new Department of Housing. The mayor explains that “this incorporation responds to the challenge of managing subsidies from the Canary Islands Housing Institute for the purchase of land for social housing and the rehabilitation of homes, both private and publicly owned.”