Between “nonsense” and “occurrence”. Cold reception of the councils of the metropolitan area of A Coruña and of the city itself to the previous appointment proposed by the Xunta de Galicia to access the beaches this summer, in line with what has already been done in the Plaza de Las Catedrales. The mayors are committed to individual responsibility and demand funds from the autonomous government to hire personnel, such as lifeguards, who can monitor the sandy areas as every year.
The Provincial Council joins the criticism
The president of the Provincial Council joins the mayors of the metropolitan area of A Coruña in criticizing the Xunta’s proposal for access to the sandy areas this summer to be managed by appointment.
Valentin Gonzalez Formosor remember that the municipalities are in charge of managing the sandy areas with limited resources in a normal situation and to which now would be added the responsibility of controlling some capacity, he assures, unviable.
This Wednesday the Xunta presented the ‘Safe Beaches’ platform to the Galician Federation of Provinces Municipalities (FEGAMP), remembering that it is a voluntary platform. The Galician government offers technology that municipalities can take advantage of if they deem it appropriate. In the province of A Coruña we have 450 sandy areas.
A coruña
For the councilor of A Coruña, Inés Rey, it is an unviable proposal. The council works in a different organizational system to monitor capacity. On the table, an app, an application for mobile phones, to know how many people are on the beach or the state of the tide.
Ines Rey mayor, considers that it is not feasible in A Coruña: “As an occurrence it is fine, but in practice it is very difficult to manage and we see it unfeasible although in many places it has worked, it does not seem feasible to us.”
Potters
In Oleiros they see the proposal as a nonsense impossible to put into practice. The mayor, Ángel García Seoane appeals, like the others, to the responsibility of bathers and He is critical of that level of control to citizens: “That police state I’m not going to exercise, besides once you get on the beach, with that espionage system, then, whoever controls it, the army lends us the same. They say every nonsense that makes no sense.”
Miño
The City Council of Miño claims the Xunta financial support to improve the presence of rescuers in its 7 sandy areas. Economic support that, says its mayor, finally never arrives. Manuel Faraldo talks about rethinking the different possibilities. “Then – he wonders – how do you do so that the people on the beach are located in a specific area, that is going to require a return from management and the media.”
Arteixo
Cold reception also of the popular Carlos Calvelo, the mayor of Arteixo, who remember that the organization of the beaches is municipal responsibility, for now without having defined what summer will be like in its sandy areas: “By appointment, people will say:> I think you have to think about it, because this solution may be worse “.
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