“Many issues that we had started at the beginning of the course have arrived very late, such as morning classrooms, textbooks and agreements that have not been executed in time by the Government of the Autonomous City and that affect Education.”
The Provincial Director of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD) in Melilla, Elena Fernández Treviño, in an interview given to Televisión Melilla, questioned the management of the local government as well as “all the problems they have had with the recruitment tables, despite being a macro government”.
“Let’s hope that this year of the first stones that say it is going to be a reality, especially for Melilla, but it is true that we still have the weight of the fact that, despite all that macroteam, we have not seen tangible results yet,” he said.
Fernández Treviño has acknowledged that, although the administration is very slow, it is the City Government itself that “has to find the mechanisms of lightness and lighten those processes”, and has criticized the lack of organization and foresight of the current local Executive.
In this sense, he has explained that there are contracting tables of the Ministry of Finance that have to be done in summer or before, as is the case of co-education agents, programs of the Co-responsible Plan, morning classrooms or the program of replacement of textbooks.
“These should be done in May or in summer because if they are done in October, all contracts are delayed for six more months,” he said. “That has to be known by an administration, a government, and it has to put measures in place so that it doesn’t happen either,” he said.
Therefore, the Provincial Director of the MEFPyD has linked the delay in the implementation of several issues that have significantly affected the beginning of this school year to “inexperience and negligence on the part of those who have to put their batteries on”.
Children’s School ‘Dolores Bartolomé’
Fernández Treviño has set as an example to illustrate the slowness of the Administration the project of the Children’s School ‘Dolores Bartolomé’. In this way, he explained that almost all projects involving higher contracting require a longer period before their start. “When you have to tender the work, you have to award the work, in the case of an infrastructure, it is true that it is years at the end,” he said.
“The construction of the ‘Dolores Bartolomé’ Children’s School began after the government of the Popular Party arrived in 2023,” he said. “We have been making the project for two years, while the project is drafted by architecture, it is sent to the Ministry, all the necessary procedures are passed, the work is litigated, the work is awarded. We are talking about an average of a year and a half or two years,” he said.
Therefore, he has insisted that, although the Administration is slow and the deadlines are imposed by the specificities of each procedure, the City Government has to lighten the processes and act with foresight because on many occasions, he has stressed, they are “issues that if they are done on time and pass the appropriate procedures do not have to lengthen so much in time.”