Arafo is one of the few municipalities in Tenerife that does not have a covered municipal sports center, despite this being a demand with more than ten years of history. No municipal government since then has been attended by the Cabildo or by the Government of the Canary Islands, despite more than one investment announcement regarding the discovered facility, which is located next to the Andrés Orozco School, which does have a covered pavilion, where now they play their games, for example, Icocia basketball.
The regional deputy of the Canarian Coalition of Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, and the mayor of Arafo, Juan Ramón Martín (AIA-CC), have asked the Government of the Canary Islands to carry out the roofing of this sports center and a series of educational improvements in the municipality. During a recent visit to the municipality, both the deputy and the mayor of Arafo claimed the need for the Canarian Government to finance this facility, “a public, modern and functional infrastructure that can be used by students and that, in addition, can host various sports disciplines in the afternoon and on weekends”.
Juan Ramón Martín insisted that the future sports center “should be a roofed facility with several rooms to be able to carry out various sports disciplines. The boys and girls of Arafo and the sports teams need optimal infrastructures so that they can carry out sports activities”.
In addition, the nationalist mayor insisted that “the construction of the new sports center must bring with it the ring road attached to the educational center.”
“A municipality with more than 6,000 inhabitants cannot be without a sports infrastructure such as a sports center,” said Dávila, who announced that he will take this matter to Parliament so that “once and for all the Government provides Arafo with the educational infrastructure that they deserve their neighbors and neighbors”.
Another of the needs analyzed by both the mayor and the deputy was the construction of a new Municipal Library and converting the current Toy Library into the future Youth House, a work for which the City Council has the project but for which it lacks funding. . For this reason, Juan Ramón Martín and Rosa Dávila demanded that the Canarian Government provide the municipality with this new facility “vital for students and young people”.
