The mayor of Badalona, ​​Rubén Guijarro, has requested by letter a meeting with the Minister of Education of the Generalitat, Josep González-Cambray, for what he considers a grievance against the city that no educational center is included in the shock plan announced to adapt to climate change Catalan schools and institutes with air conditioning.
Today it has been known, through the media, that the Department of Education will install air conditioners in 100 of the 2,500 educational centers in Catalonia as a shock plan to adapt to climate change in schools and institutes.
Although the mayor assures that “I welcome the initiative and I see it as completely necessary given the country’s climate situation”, he adds that he contemplates “with astonishment and concern” that among the 100 educational centers chosen for this first shock phase “none of our city” and that, therefore, not one euro of the five million for this crash plan will go towards the climatic well-being of Badalona students.
The mayor reminded the minister that the educational centers of our city, “as we have told him in the meetings we have held” have long denounced the lack of ventilation systems in summer and heating in winter, to the detriment What does this deficiency mean for the students and the conditions in which they receive classes.
For this reason, he points out that “it is difficult for me to understand that the educational centers of Badalona, ​​of which you yourself know the reality” are not contemplated in a budget that, once again, he criticizes as “reveals the lack of investment in one of the the cities with the largest population in Catalonia”.
To find a solution to this “incomprehensible grievance” Rubén Guijarro asks for a new urgent and face-to-face meeting that “allows us to reverse this situation.” The mayor has also declared that “if the Generalitat does not do its job, we will.”
