A DEBT TO 9 MILLION
a Board of Directors and opaque BLINDATO
THE PROTEST OF WORKERS AND THE SPECTRUM OF DISCOVER THE LATEST RECRUITMENT
COINRES AMONG POOR MANAGEMENT AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
of Emanuele Minnella
Continue the waste emergency in our municipality.
But with the establishment of the ATO (range local optimum), this should have become an old memory. What are the ATO? Just ask the relevant body, make an appointment. That phone number is always busy. Meanwhile, we try to draw a little 'history.
established by regional decree in 2002, the case of supra-municipal bodies that deal with public services. Their aim is to streamline, improve its management without the burden on people's pockets. Or at least it should.
In just over five years, the ATO are only able to create a budget deficit in our region. 400 million euro, this is the figure identified by those who managed to come to terms, and all debts in one way or another will weigh on the economies of Sicily, especially in view of the final transition from the regime of the tax to the rate provided for in the field of municipal solid waste in 2008. Wherever you
thus part of the story, the failure of this form of management remains relentlessly focused at the center of our goal. Meanwhile, the garbage grows. The protest is growing. The debt grows. It also increases the number of new recruits in the field.
Villabate belongs ATO Palermo 4 comprising 22 municipalities of the province, also called COINRES. In short, the COINRES (associations of waste, energy and services) is the body which, since 2006, deals with the management of waste collection in our municipality.
Inside each consortium member holds a financial report on the number of its inhabitants. Today, the 22 participating municipalities, Bagheria, Misilmeri Villabate and also appear to be the most populous, the first of three also holds the largest stake (around 29.9%), the province also contributes with 10% .
COINRES With the introduction of the waste collection system has undergone profound changes. Before the single municipality, with the collection of TARSU (the waste tax) make direct costs to the public health service (including the payment of staff); today, however, each municipality of the sums transferred periodically to COINRES, which in turn uses them to make their own costs.
Needless to comment on how this transfer of powers has been maintained in a confused and distorted from the outset because the same passage was made by law required. In fact, our town, even if you could, would have no chance to regain the service, seeking to escape the ATO, or arranging for their own territory if a different management.
Meanwhile, last month, for the third time since the beginning of the year, employees have COINRES on strike because of a delay in the payment of salaries. And history repeats itself.
overflowing bins (some data also on fire), waste of any kind left in the most diverse in the country, even if the missing containers.
For all these reasons (but not limited to) the ATO continues to remain at the center of political debate flares Sicilian men's minds as much right to the left. A failure in some ways already announced, to which the Region is seeking to remedy. For the moment only on paper.
regional financial law of 2007, art. 45, provides, in fact, a drastic reduction of the same, leading 27 to 9. However, the rule is still widely rejected by the same council Cuffaro, since it never arrived implementing decree no.
On this point, the Mayor of Clare, answering our questions, said in favor of reducing the number of ATO, even if convinced that such a measure would affect the interests of much of the political class. Our feeling is that he, too, as he considers land partisan interests. "A priori are not contrary to the ATO," says Di-Chiara-"the same were born to facilitate the work of Commons and to improve the service to be offered to citizens."
"As far as I'm concerned"-continued the Mayor, "the City of Villabate has always done his duty and is one of the few if not the only one to have paid all amounts due to COINRES and have not, therefore, any debt owed to the Consortium. "
In fact, the situation is much more complex for other municipalities, in most cases, debt or the edge of financial collapse. Among the insolvent are to Bagheria, with about one million euro of debt to Casteldaccia, with 700 000 €; to Marineo, with about 500 000 €. But even if others get by with less.
The costs of the ATO, the President of COINRES and Provincial Councillor, Raffaele Loddo, recently admitted the hole from € 9 million resulted from delays in the transfer of shares by the municipalities. Debts which, in our case, have produced the inefficiency of the last month. Who cares if Villabate has, on an immaculate record.
the mayor of clear, stressed on the point, does not hide some bitterness.
"The expertise of our town are very limited"-admits-"To date we have only one seat in the Conference of Mayors, as we know, has no executive powers."
"However, we will, in short, the renewal of the statutory responsibilities"-goes-the Mayor, "and we can already announce the possibility of a new Board of Directors in which our City, as the most populous , will also get a seat. "
seems to be certain of what he says our First Citizen. But at the moment we can only hazard hypothesis. It is not, in fact, easy to guess what will happen within the various Board of Directors, in light of the budget of the Prodi government, which requires drastic cuts in the number of directors in public, in order to contain spending. Expenditure that the current Board of Directors of COINRES, composed mostly of representatives with a variety of positions within the municipal and provincial administrations, now seems under control, if it continues to hire people, like a real office placement.
Recently, the ecological research of 45 operators, 23 drivers and 8 stewards has stirred controversy. On this point it seems fair to point out a number of anomalies. Some of which have their own mode of intake of these employees. The notice recruitment, released on October 31 last year, reported the November 5 deadline, a time, this, really small. In addition, the selection was entrusted to a private agency, the Temporary; the same agency that, for privacy reasons, continues to keep secret the names and surnames of candidates.
To suggest at this point that these jobs are also a result of political patronage, it seems a sin so grave, that are attributable to the promises then to the left or right we can not know. Rumors tell us there even relatives of union members within those lists. We'll see. Meanwhile, the three largest trade unions (CGIL, CISL, UIL) have concluded there is an agreement with the COINRES, with a record among other things never come to the protocol, and the workers' protest has ceased.
of this, but even more, will continue to speak in the councils of the 22 municipalities.
Pending a solution, as close as possible to our needs, we can only hope not to finish, we too, in a landfill.
Councillor LO MAGLIO RESIGNS ...
Thomas Lo Maglio, Councillor environmental health, has put in the hands of the Mayor, the delegation received during the installation of the Executive. To replace it, there is now the director of the National Alliance Anthony Cilluffo. Meanwhile, in a statement released to the press, November 21 last year, the directors of opposition denounced the severe difficulties that the administration is headed by Di Chiara. "At 5 months of taking office did not resolve the country's problems"-we read in the same-"and the resignation of the Councillor will be the test." The net replication Maglio. "I am sorry that the opposition wanted to exploit a linear and clear decision as my"-says-"I put in the hands of the Mayor the powers only because I no longer sufficient to meet the time availability of the service."
THE BILL BY A MILLION EURO ...
Will this document, the object of a search, tabled in Council, signed by Valencia, Garbo and Heritage. We are asking the Mayor and Alderman to the branch, in order to explain the financial position of COINRES. As we know, the bill in question (about € 865 000) refers to an increase in costs to the Consortium for the year 2006. Obvious that the sum will be divided among the 22 municipalities (the share of Villabate is 51 000 €). The Deputy Mayor, Clerk Joseph, announces that, in particular, will open a dispute with the city of Palermo (which through the AMIA, is responsible for disposing of waste on behalf of COINRES). Meanwhile, the amount will be amortized in future years without affecting the rate charged to TARSU citizens. Is it true?
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