She was accompanied by members of her party the PRD including Gabriel Severino, Freddy Mercado and Arianny de la Cruz and the new councilman Miguel Fernández (Micky). The purpose of the visit was to examine whether the town hall is suitable to receive the many visitors expected on 16 and August 17 at the inauguration of the new mayor. Ilana told the waiting press when leaving the town hall, that the entire building is in a deplorable condition. Everything is in decline, the furniture is broken or missing, the walls unpainted and dirty. The previous mayor clearly has done no maintenance at all at the city hall for years. In this situation it would be a disgrace to Sosúa to receive the guests in such a ruin. She indicated that funding is needed to prepare City Hall again for its representative function.