Carlos Carrillo Paredes, head of the Secretariat of Participation and Citizen Attention of the Mérida City Council, stated that they are promoting actions to review the electrical installations of the city’s parks to avoid accidents and reinforce the Park Ranger program.
Carrillo Paredes assured that they are already working in coordination with the Directorate of Municipal Public Services, especially with the Parks and Gardens area, so that periodic reviews of the electrical installations of all public and coexistence spaces in the city are carried out.
On this topic, just a few days ago the State Attorney General’s Office removed the seals it placed in Azcorra Park so that the City Council can intervene and rehabilitate that public space.
To do this, it was necessary for the neighbors to file an amparo lawsuit, which they won, and now the Municipality will work to get the park back to normal and occupied again as soon as possible.
A 13-year-old boy died from electrocution on April 22 when he was practicing basketball in the park. The minor was exercising when at one point he touched one of the goals on the field and suffered a strong shock.
For that reason, now we are trying to ensure that these types of tragedies do not happen again. The same applies to the case of the Park Ranger Program, where there will also be coordinated work with the Municipal Police to reinforce security in spaces of coexistence and recreation, and these have greater vitality, said the interviewee. “It is an issue in which we do not have direct participation, but yes, as part of our responsibility in the issue of attention to citizens, we will work jointly with other instances of the City Council so that people take and make all the issues their own. Public spaces that the city has in a safer way,” he added.
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