- “Following repeated breaches by the director of Works, hired through a tender, the Works Department of Arrecife terminated the contract”
- Yonathan de León informs residents that the urban transformation of Tinasoria’s streets will resume in a few weeks, following the positive advisory report from the Canary Islands Advisory Council, allowing the Council to complete the investment of almost 3 million euros with new project management
“Following repeated breaches by the director of Works, hired through a tender, the Works Department of Arrecife terminated the contract”
Yonathan de León informs residents that the urban transformation of Tinasoria’s streets will resume in a few weeks, following the positive advisory report from the Canary Islands Advisory Council, allowing the Council to complete the investment of almost 3 million euros with new project management
The Arrecife City Council, through its Public Works Department, had halted the works in the Tinasoria neighbourhood due to the repeated failures of the director of Works, who was appointed through a tender process. Every public project requires technical oversight during its execution, which the Council had planned to tender in order to initiate the urban transformation of the streets in this neighbourhood, originally developed with social housing. The Mayor, as the direct head of the Public Works Department, decided to terminate the administrative contract, “given the repeated failures of the director of Works”—who does not reside in Lanzarote—thus enabling the Council to apply the Public Sector Contracts Law to ensure project completion, as the works have guaranteed funding and a reliable construction company responsible for execution, the winner of the tender.
To continue the works, which is the aim of Mayor Yonathan de León, the Council requested an obligatory advisory report from the Canary Islands Advisory Council, to approve the legal termination of the administrative contract and proceed with the new hiring of project management.
On 16 September, the Canary Islands Advisory Council issued a favourable, binding report, supporting the Mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, thus allowing the works to be resumed with new project management and Safety and Health Coordination.
Advisory Council Ruling
The ruling from the advisory council, comprising 44 pages and published on the council’s website, supports the legal decision made by the Mayor from the Public Works Department and concludes that it is lawful.
“This ruling—which was requested by the Mayor of Arrecife regarding the Proposal for Resolution of the procedure for terminating the administrative contract for the ‘Service of Project Management and Safety and Health Coordination for the renovation and urban regeneration of Tinasoria (Lot 2)’, (EXP. 309/2025 CA)—dates back to 4 July 2025,” revisiting the initiation of the works, the breaches by the project management, and the favourable decision from the Council.
The ruling emphasises that “The Council understands that the reasoning in the Proposal for Resolution is correct, as it details all allegations against the contractor as a single act, consisting of the specific and precise breaches identified since October and reiterated in the weeks that followed—without correction by the contractor—and culminated, so to speak, in the complete abandonment of contractual duties, evident in the resignation, which itself is grounds for termination. The contractor’s continuous actions over a brief period constitute a singular ground for resolution, without needing to individually specify each breach reported from October to December as grounds for termination, since the overall situation concludes with the resignation, thus providing legal reason for contract termination.”
On 8 August 2024, a verification record of the project layout in Tinasoria was signed. Works commenced last autumn, but there was no response to the contractor’s requests or directives from the Council. The works were suspended from the early part of this year, and the Council initiated legal procedures to terminate the project management. On 4 July, all required documentation was submitted to the Advisory Council, which issued the final ruling on 16 September, allowing for the continuation of the works by appointing new management.
Mayor Yonathan de León has announced that the Council is now proceeding with the stipulations outlined in the Public Sector Contracts Law, which will enable the completion of these works in the coming weeks. This project is part of a comprehensive plan initiated by the Municipal Government to revitalise neighbourhoods in Arrecife, providing Tinasoria with a modern, accessible, and sustainable image featuring green areas, accessible pavements, resurfaced roads, stormwater drainage, and drip irrigation for over 50 new trees that will be planted along the streets of this neighbourhood, established in the 1970s with social housing.
