In this sense, he pointed out that “if it is not incompatible with the 700,000 euros that Arico receives, the argument that Rodríguez Medina has been using in recent months does not hold up ». In this regard, he urges the counselor and the president of the Council, Pedro Martín, «to give explanations». The councilor assures that “it is not a question of a help that the Cabildo gives us, it is a right of the neighbors to be compensated for supporting the landfill near their houses.” Martín awaits the call for the meeting agreed between both parties, for the island president to attend “and make the right decision.”
Rodríguez Medina assured the Plenary of the Cabildo on two occasions that this agreement had expired since 2018 and that, based on the technical report, “two grants for the same concept are not compatible.” Something that is not reflected in the document signed by the head of the Administrative Service for Sustainable Development and the Fight Against Climate Change on November 26, 2020.
The report includes a chronology of the creation of the landfill and its evolution into an Environmental Complex, alludes to the change in the treatment of waste, recalls that on August 21, 2001 the agreement whose renewal is requested now came into force – it was in force until 2018 – and points out that since 2010 “the municipality has been compensated” (about 730,000 euros per year) for the Territorial Waste Management Plan of Tenerife. Likewise, the technician reflects that, «without prejudice to the considerations that may be made from another perspective, it can be stated that, currently, it is responding to the need of the Arico City Council to be compensated for the possible damages and inconveniences associated with the existence of the Environmental Complex of Tenerife in its municipal term ».
For the PP spokesman, Andrés Martínez, “it has been shown that the PSOE of Tenerife is moved by political interests and does not want to compensate the residents of Arico.” The also councilor for Urbanism and Environment said he did not understand why the local PSOE “wants to enter a party war.”
For his part, the first deputy mayor, Juan José Armas, dismissed the attitude and pronouncements of the island government as “lack of respect”. «First, they tell us that such an agreement does not exist; then, they hide in that it is expired because a technical report says so. Today we wonder what his excuse will be now, because we know that this incompatibility is not reflected in that report. As a neighbor, I am outraged that our rights are being played with.
