“The morning classrooms have been in danger.” The Provincial Director of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD) in Melilla, Elena Fernández Treviño, has denounced the “absolute disaster” of the local government regarding Education and has referred to the fact that the directors of the centers were informed a few days ago of the suspension of the morning classroom service “from one day to the next” although “finally urgent action was taken” to solve it.
However, the head of the Provincial Directorate of Education has pointed out that she believes it is not an issue that has been resolved since the Autonomous City “has a problem that does not resolve”. The local executive “has been saying for nine months that he is going to solve all the mess that he has in the Treasury and at the contracting tables and the fact is that the skein has not been unravelled by an inch. They are still in the same mess when it comes to hiring.”
Fernández Treviño explained that “a contracting body, which operates from the Treasury, is the heart of a government”. “If that doesn’t work, there are a lot of services that are not going to be provided well,” he warned.
As he said, the Autonomous City “is not paying companies and is not responding to the debts that it has in certain Departments, see the Education and Social Welfare Departments, and this entails a non-payment, therefore, of invoices that have accumulated for months, which means that this payment does not reach companies and companies get tired”.
Added to this is the fact that companies do not compete in the Autonomous City’s tender for contracts “because they do not trust” the local administration, which “has become an unreliable administration for companies.”
“Mess” with bill payment
At this point, the Provincial Director of Education has stressed that the local government has right now “a tremendous mess in terms of the payment of bills and in terms of the normal development of contracts.” “Morning classrooms have arrived late, textbooks late, co-education agents have not yet reached the institutes or schools and the morning classrooms were in danger the other day,” he recalled. “A government cannot function like this,” he said.
“How is it possible that necessary and first-rate educational resources are not working in the month of March?” asked Fernández Treviño, who stressed that, as far as Education is concerned, the local government is “an absolute disaster”. “I think they have to correct this and Imbroda take action on the matter and see what is happening at the Treasury Department,” he said.
In her statement to the media, the Provincial Director of Education stressed that the local executive must create stability for schools, institutes, companies that provide services and the workers who provide these services “and they are not doing so”.
“We want that conciliation in morning classrooms to be assured with those that already exist and with a reinforcement that we want to do,” said the head of the MEFPyD in our city.