Olivia Delgado, the socialist mayor of Arico, declared yesterday that “Arico’s infrastructure is all bad,” which is why she considers it a priority in this term, which she will govern with a pact with the Popular Party, “to draft a new project to end the rehabilitation of the plaza Villa de Aricoput out to tender the maintenance contract for roads and streets, put an end to the problem of water supply in areas such as El Porís, La Listada or Las Maretas”, in addition to sanitation in Abades or in Las Eras, where the outfall continues to push wastewater into the sea, “for which we need an agreement with the Cabildo of 1.2 million euros,” he points out.
He also considers it vital to put out to tender the solid waste collection service, in addition to increasing the number of police officers, when “we are the second largest municipality in Tenerife and we only have eight officers.”
In statements to Onda Tenerife, Olivia Delgado is confident that her third arrival at the Mayor’s Office “will be the definitive one”, after having suffered motions of censure in 2012 and 2019. “I hope so. We have shown, with the pact with the PP, that we are generous and that we are not moved by our seats, as the opposition alleges. We are going to give the hope and stability that Arico deserves and carry out those projects and contracts that those who have governed have not carried out, despite having 14 million remaining in treasury. It has not been a problem of money, but of CC management in works and services, all without a contract,” commented the socialist councilor.
Delgado hopes that “the opposition forgets about personalisms and thinks about Arico, although the Canarian Coalition, for example, will have to explain how it voted against in the last committee of a game to solve the Abades sanitation problem. They will have to explain it to the neighbors.”
