The council increases by twelve million euros the budget allocated to strategic works framed in the Municipal Cooperation Plan 2022-2025. In total there will be sixty million for the recently inaugurated cycle, 25% more than the 48 of the previous one (2018-2021). The insular president, Pedro Martín, highlights “the firm commitment” of the Corporation for strengthen alliances with the 31 municipalities of the Island to more effectively meet the needs of the population. The councilor for the area and Housing, Zebenzuí Chinea, explains, for his part, that the new framework will allow projects of public interest to be carried out, “not only in sanitation, as until now, but also in infrastructure and the water cycle.”
Martín values that “this program is born from consensus and, in addition to resolving demands, aims to generate employment and economy». He explains that the first draft of this new Plan has already been presented to the island’s city councils, and assures that “it has a great initial acceptance by the mayors. Of all political colors, by the way.
For his part, the island councilor for Municipal Cooperation and Housing, Zebenzuí Chinea, explains that the municipalities have been asked to select projects already written «so that they can be executed as soon as possible and maintain the dynamism of the local economy and also generate jobs».
“This program is born from consensus and aims to generate both economy and employment”
It is, according to the counselor, “to maintain the investment” and “to put as much money as possible at the disposal of the municipalities.” The intention is “to respond to the difficulties and historical shortcomings of the entire Island in terms of sanitation.
The financing of the council It will vary depending on the population of the municipality. In this way, 90 percent will be covered by the insular institution for those with less than 20,000 inhabitants; 80 percent in those ideas aimed at municipalities of between 20,000 and 50,000, and 50 percent for those populations of more than 50,000.
Chinea adds that, in the event that the City Councils decide to carry out minor infrastructure works, it will be the consistories themselves that tender and develop them, “with the aim that the companies of the region can also enter that competition and streamline the procedures and procedures.” The counselor insists that in the line of seeking effectiveness and efficiency».
The most recent, in Fasnia
The 2018-2021 Cooperation Plan, endowed with €48 millionis not yet completed, although the island councilor emphasizes that “all the projects have already been drafted” and the program “is advancing at a very good pace.”
As detailed, there are currently 15 works in execution distributed by 13 municipalities of the Island. “The last one started just a few days ago in the municipality of Fasnia, worth 1.2 million euros,” concludes the counselor.
“Apart from sanitation projects, there will be funds for water networks and infrastructure”
The Island Government Council gave the go-ahead last September 2021 to the tender, for that aforementioned budget of 1.2 million euros, for the improvement works of the municipal deposits and the supply networks for the supply of drinking water in the municipality of Fasnia. in the South of the Island.
Specifically, culminating these days conditioning of the Pino del Agua, Fasnia II, La Zarza and Las Eras deposits, in order to improve their condition and adapt them to the regulations that establish the health criteria for the quality of water for human consumption. Added to this are measures to sectorize the supply network. The Fasnia I and Zarza I deposits remain outside the normal operation of the network in reserve for possible emergencies. Fasnia’s action is an example of the usual ones, those of sanitation, in the Municipal Cooperation Plan. The program intends to expand its objectives in the next four years.
