The Tacoronte Government group has stood out for its economic management during the assessment of the first four months of its mandate. The preparation of the List of Jobs (RPT); the subsidy plan for more than one million euros, which will be distributed among 76 entities, associations and federated athletes; the payment to suppliers, canceling debts of more than four million euros, and the budget allocation of more than six million to improve municipal services, such as the supply of drinking water, electricity and street cleaning, are some of the “achievements” indicated by the Tripartite government (PSOE-CC-PP) in these first months at the head of the City Council.
Added to this is the design and upcoming approval of the 2024 budget, after working with accounts extended from 2020, the configuration of a new Social Employment Plan endowed with 1.8 million euros and the hiring of more staff. through agreements with other administrations.
The mayor, Sandra Izquierdo; the first deputy mayor, Noemí García, and the second deputy mayor, José Caro, appeared at a press conference to announce the government’s actions in the different municipal areas. “We will continue to support a government of the people, not of parties, in which dialogue, transparency, unity and cooperation will continue to be fundamental for Tacoronte to occupy the place it deserves,” Izquierdo stressed.
In this sense, he made it clear that he will “press without complexes” for the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands to finish the expansion works of the health center.
Among the actions carried out, the meeting of the Local Safety Board stood out, which had not been convened since February 2019, as a result of the forest fire that affected the municipality; the good results of the Christ Festival, in which the restaurant sector “tripled” its income from previous years; the tender for the service contract for the management of the Naranjos de Luz Occupational Center, and the improvement of lighting in buildings and roads with the incorporation of LED technology.
They also reported on some measures that were necessary to adopt in this mandate, such as the closure of the municipal kennel or the eviction notification to the users of the Piedras de Torres social emergency housing. In this sense, and when consulted in this regard, the Councilor for Social Services, José Caro, recalled that a municipal ordinance establishes that the use of these properties is three months with a maximum extension of six and the current users have been “between nine months and nine years”.
Likewise, he alluded to the fact that the previous mayor and person in charge of the area, José Daniel Díaz, “initiated the eviction file twice, once in November 2019 and another in January 2022, and we do not know why it did not continue.”
Likewise, Caro denied that the eviction was going to take place on the 17th, “as the opposition has been saying, because we are still in the hearing process,” and made it clear that the Executive “will take the appropriate decisions according to the reports of the social workers”, which will take into account the reality of each of the families and the presence of minors in the place.
