The Department of Sports is meeting with each town hall’s councillors to coordinate the tenders.

The Councillor of Culture, Education, Youth and Sports of the Consell Insular de Menorca, Joan Pons Torres, together with the island’s Director of Youth and Sports, Rafel Quintana, held a first meeting this Tuesday, 25th February, with all the sports councillors of each of the island’s town halls to coordinate the tenders for the improvement and creation of new sports facilities.

This major project encompasses a series of improvements in all the municipalities of Menorca, with major investments planned using funds from the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS). The project aims to modernise and expand Menorca’s sports infrastructures to promote physical activity as a differential and sustainable tourism product, especially during the low season. The project will be divided into two phases to adapt to each sports infrastructure’s financial availability and needs.

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The Consell Insular de Menorca will invest nine million euros to create and improve new sports facilities

The project seeks to position the island as a sporting and healthy destination, improving facilities in several municipalities with the construction of an athletics track in Maó, a sports centre with heated pool, gym and multipurpose room in Alaior, an outdoor multipurpose pool in Sant Lluís, the renovation of the roof and paving of the sports centre in Mercadal, the renovation of the municipal football pitch of ‘Las Arenas’ in Fornells and the drafting of the basic and executive project and technical fees for the extension of the Municipal Sports Centre in Es Castell, among others.

‘From the Consell Insular de Menorca, in the first phase, we have received 6.5 million euros to carry out improvements and the creation of new sports facilities. Therefore, this year we must begin the works of a total of nine million euros to be invested on the island, thanks to ITS funds and the Consell’s agreements, and therefore it is important to coordinate the tenders with all the representatives of the councils and to be able to carry out with the maximum guarantees of results that will benefit all Menorcans,’ said the councillor, Joan Pons Torres.