SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 4. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife will submit the 2022-2025 Municipal Cooperation Plan to the July Plenary for its final approval, after its processing this week by the Island Government Council.
The program has a budget of 60 million euros, which represents an increase of 25 percent with respect to the previous cooperation plan –12 million euros more–.
The insular president, Pedro Martín, influenced the municipalist vocation of the current government team, as well as “in the multiple plans and lines of intervention launched by the corporation, in areas as fundamental as housing, attention to the social emergency , employment or the purification and sanitation of wastewater, to facilitate work and strengthen alliances with all municipalities, which are being supported as never before”.
For his part, the island councilor for Municipal Cooperation and Housing, Zebenzuí Chinea, highlights in a note “the broad consensus reached with the island’s 31 city councils, with whom we have been meeting periodically to carry out this plan, which It will allow us to more effectively meet the needs of citizens and continue generating employment and economy”.
According to the island official, one million euros will be allocated linearly to each municipality, while the remaining 29 million euros will be distributed following the distribution criteria of the Canarian Federation of Municipalities (Fecam).
The 2022-2025 program contemplates, as a novelty, the execution of works in municipal infrastructures and the water cycle, in addition to works in sanitation, which were already included in the previous plan.
The objective is to reduce the deficit of the island’s urban sanitation infrastructures and bring them closer to complying with the European Directive, in order to protect the environment from contamination derived from sewage or industrial discharges and to preserve continental waters and coastal.
The financing of the Cabildo will vary depending on the population of the municipality: 90 percent for those with less than 20,000 inhabitants, 80 percent for municipalities with between 20,000 and 50,000 and 50 percent for those populations of more than 50,000.
Each municipality may carry out a single work, although the project may include several actions.
Exceptionally, the Cabildo will authorize the execution of two works for all those municipalities that assume the commitment to tender and develop one of the two proposed actions.
In this sense, Chinea highlights the importance of cooperation plans to boost the economic activity of the municipalities and generate employment.
