The Councillors for Sports, Ximo Perles, and Education, Mariola Mulet, have jointly promoted the contracting of maintenance and repair services for sports facilities and educational centres. This is a new way of carrying out maintenance and repairs on these facilities, which often require minor work that cannot be delayed.
The contract covers sports areas and educational and social centres. It has an annual budget of €296,450 with the possibility of extension. The successful bidder, which has already started work, will carry out the tasks set by the council technicians, who have already drawn up an action plan.
This initiative will enable work to be carried out such as the conversion of the old bar in the Domingo Crespo Pavilion into a multi-purpose sports hall and a comprehensive refurbishment that includes the replacement of all the doors to the changing rooms and toilets, the replacement of the flooring, the replacement of the benches in the changing rooms and the refurbishment of the concierge area. The air conditioning will also be repaired.
In addition, the changing rooms in the Esplai Park and Benítez areas will be refurbished and a storage room will be created in the old toilets. As for the Ifac Pavilion, the roof and methacrylate panels in poor condition will be removed and leaking gutters will be replaced.
On the football pitch, the changing room doors will be replaced, the roof of the stands will be cleaned and painted, the public address system and scoreboard will be replaced, and damp will be repaired on the blue court.
The swimming pool will also be subject to these actions, as it is planned to replace the access door to the car park, repair damp ceiling shelves, replace the door to the biomass tank and carry out other repairs to floors, doors and lockers.
With regard to educational centres, this contract will enable the clearing of the Azorín and Gabriel Miró schools, the creation of a shaded area at the Mediterrani and Oltà schools, and the replacement of the fencing at the Silene de Ifac nursery school and the CEE Gargasindi school.
Other actions in the field of education include replacing the vinyl flooring in the classrooms of the Silene de Ifac nursery school, renovating the trees in the playground of the CEIP Mediterrani primary school and replacing the protective fabric on the internal fencing of this centre.
The fencing at the Gabriel Miró Primary School will also be replaced, the doorbell at the Oltà Primary School will be replaced and the mechanism for the blinds at the Mediterrani Primary School will be replaced. In addition, painting work is planned in all schools.
The Councillor for Sports, Ximo Perles, stated that ‘for many years, sports facilities have been neglected, and this summer we have launched this emergency plan so that when the school year begins in September, our children will have decent and dignified facilities’.