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The Priority Works Plan for municipalities with less than 20,000 inhabitants is now complete. The 17 town councils that had the option to participate in it have already sent the Cabildo the list of works that will receive part of the 3.3 million with which this plan is endowed, which complements the Municipal Cooperation Plan of the Cabildo de Tenerife , and whose 2014-2017 edition is practically finished, with the financing of some thirty works, with only three remaining to complete the programming. As Zebenzuí Chinea, the insular councilor for Municipal Cooperation and Housing, explains to DIARIO DE AVISOS, “with the Priority Works Plan we want to support the municipalities with more difficulties when launching programs, and will serve to complement the new Municipal Cooperation Plan, which includes 2018-2021, and which is already underway with 15 works in progress ”.
Chinea explains that the objective of the extra financing to the smaller municipalities is to “give support to those municipalities that have less technical and economic capacity, and that need to guarantee public services in their municipalities, even more so after the pandemic.” The island councilor explains that the 17 municipalities to which this plan reaches have already delivered the projects with which they want to be part of this plan, and that it will shortly be taken to the Governing Council to provide it with the amounts reflected in each project.
“The works that have been presented range from improving the supply network, going through the paving of roads, to updating the cemetery regulations,” explains Chinea.
It details that city councils have been asked “to be works that were already scheduled and that they had projects already drawn up, in order to try to continue working in these times, without having to wait for the approval or drafting of projects, because it is important for public administrations to put money in the streets to continue reversing the impact of the pandemic ”.
“From the area, we have done everything on our part to carry out this program. We are aware of the difficulties of the municipalities, with which we are in permanent contact, to cover this type of demand ”, concludes the counselor.
Most choose to adapt cemeteries to regional law
The maximum funding for each project reaches 200,000 euros. “These are actions that they have proposed and, in addition, we have agreed that if they exceed the maximum amount, they contribute the amount that exceeds it,” explains Chinea. Regarding the list of works that the municipalities have transferred to the Cabildo within this Priority Works Plan, it is very varied, although the projects to adapt the cemeteries to the regional law stand out. The municipalities of Buenavista del Norte and El Rosario are the ones with the most projects, with six each. Among those of the first is the expansion of the municipal cemetery, the rehabilitation of the municipal playgrounds or the air conditioning of the municipal swimming pool. The Rosario municipality has taken the opportunity to adapt the El Chorrillo, La Esperanza and Llano El Moro facilities to the cemetery law.
La Matanza, with four works, is committed to improving the water network on Calle Limeras, the electrification of Pozo Casanueva or the cooling of the municipal crypt. Garachico also takes the opportunity to adapt its cemeteries, like Vilaflor. The participating municipalities are Arafo, Arico, Buenavista del Norte, Fasnia, Garachico, La Guancha, La Matanza, El Rosario, San Juan de la Rambla, Santa Úrsula, Santiago del Teide, El Sauzal, Los Silos, El Tanque, Tegueste, La Victoria and Vilaflor.
