The Councilor for Sports and first deputy mayor, Samuel Henríquez Quintana, highlights the “closer relationship that has existed in this legislature with the different sports clubs and athletes in the municipality.”
The Sports Department of the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council, led by the councilor and first deputy mayor Samuel Henríquez Quintana, has made an investment of more than four million euros in this legislature. The sum of this investment includes both the actions carried out in the different sports facilities of the municipality, as well as the payment of subsidies to the more than 70 sports clubs and individual athletes that have been carried out this year, which add up to a total of 946.000 euros.
Among the most notable actions that have been carried out in this term are the rehabilitation and air conditioning of the San Fernando Swimming Pool (472.000 euros), the remodeling of the Maspalomas Stadium athletics track (461.000 euros) and the replacement works , legalization and energy efficiency of the lighting of the Maspalomas Sports City (623.000 euros).
Also noteworthy are the renovation of the lighting on the Castillo del Romeral and El Tablero football fields (84.000 euros), the rehabilitation of the Aldea Blanca Canarian wrestling ground (30.000 euros), converting the municipality's sports facilities into cardio-protected spaces, the improvement of the lighting of the San Fernando Pavilion, the rehabilitation of the attached basketball courts, the San Fernando skating rink, the acquisition of various sports equipment for municipal facilities, start-up, improvement works and maintenance of the field of natural grass from Las Burras or the purchase of maintenance machinery for the San Fernando Municipal Swimming Pool.
On the other hand, before the end of the legislature, the execution of the following projects will begin: Conditioning of the changing rooms of the Maspalomas Sports City, financed by the Government of the Canary Islands (450.000 euros) and the replacement of the artificial grass, renewal of irrigation and other improvements to the Castillo del Romeral and Juan Grande football fields (884.000 euros), financed by the Gran Canaria Cabildo.
The councilor of the area wants to highlight the “closeness that has existed in this legislature with the different sports clubs and athletes of the municipality, with whom there has been a constant and fluid relationship throughout the legislature to listen to their needs, which have been addressed. to solve as much as possible from this department.”
The spokesperson for Nueva Canarias also adds that "the objectives that we set at the beginning of the legislature have been met, bringing us closer to grassroots sport, paying the subsidies that had not been paid since the last year of the previous government." Furthermore, he insists, "the sports facilities have been improved, many of them obsolete, in which no action had been taken in the last 20 years and the Department of Sports has also made great work and effort to regain momentum of sporting events, placing San Bartolomé de Tirajana as a reference at all levels.”
