Municipality ensures intervention in schools affected by bad weather
On the itinerary of visits, which included the presence of councillors Rodrigo Mello Gonçalves (Education) and Vasco Moreira Rato (Urbanism and Municipal Buildings), were the Luís António Verney Primary and Secondary School, the Luís de Camões Primary School and the Luz Primary School - Carnide, establishments that have recently been renovated.
"The Executive doesn't ignore reality, it goes into the field and actively listens to the educational community. Our schools can count on our commitment, focus and determination to build solutions, whether for everyday challenges or for those that require structural responses," said the Councillor for Education.
The visits, added Vasco Moreira Rato, Councillor for Urban Planning and Municipal Buildings, "also allow us to verify that the diagnosis that the City Council has made is assertive. In fact, the council's technicians are well aware of what they are doing and the priorities they have indicated to us and the levels of conservation they have indicated to us, what needs to be done, I can verify here on the ground that it is adequate and appropriate".
The schools visited today, he assured, "are some of the priorities, they are already in the project contracting phase and some, as we saw here at the Luís de Camões Basic School, have already had some drilling work done to characterize the soil, therefore, geotechnical issues to then inform the project".
"All the necessary interventions to guarantee the children's safety are carried out promptly," Rodrigo Mello Gonçalves guaranteed, pointing out that the municipality has taken a fundamental step by deciding to move forward with the creation of municipal maintenance plans for school buildings.
The structural measure, recently announced by the two councillors, will make it possible to plan intermediate interventions in good time and, with this, avoid the continuous deterioration of educational establishments.
Today's series of visits follows on from the initiatives that the Councillor for Education has been carrying out with the school community, showing that "schools and education are priorities for the executive. This commitment is also reflected in the main strategic planning instrument for the municipality's schools, the Educational Charter, whose proposal will soon be discussed and voted on in the Municipal Assembly. The document, presented at a town hall meeting last week, has requalification, construction and school success as its fundamental pillars.