Complaints about the Tari increases – in some municipalities even of over 10% – have already arrived with the first approvals of the budgets, but now the Umbrian mayors are teaming up and, in over 70, they are letting citizens know that the increases are not their fault . They do so with an open letter signed by around seventy Italian bands of various political orientations.
Below is the text of the speech.
“The new calculation system, introduced in 2017, frees mayors from any power to intervene in the financial plans of the waste collection and disposal service. Before the reform, the cost of the service was set in advance on the basis of a negotiation between the municipality and the operator in accordance with the provisions of the contract. Local authorities, therefore, were able to influence tariffs and control them, also by modulating and making the service more efficient.
Today, however, the cost of the service is determined in the final balance based on the costs incurred by the manager according to the parameters set by ARERA, the regulatory authority for energy and waste. Mayors only have the role of collecting the fee from citizens according to what others have decided. There is no room for intervention: the municipality is obliged to approve the financial plans in the city council in order to pay the bill and not create holes in the budget for which, moreover, the mayor and the municipal administration would be called upon to respond personally. Furthermore, the law requires that the cost of the service be covered exclusively with the proceeds of the tariff, therefore – even if they wanted – the municipalities could not put their own resources (which, in any case, they do not have) to sterilize the increases.
We are very concerned about this continuous increase in tariffs. We believe it is urgent to rethink this system which betrays the principle of “he who pollutes the most pays the most”. The commitment of citizens and administrations in waste separation, in addition to guaranteeing the protection of the environment, should also lead to the reduction of tariffs. Instead, the ARERA tariff method for the two-year period 2024-2025 will lead to an increase in tariffs, largely due to the increase in costs of the previous two years, which in some cases will even be higher than 10% per year. An increase which, it is worth specifying, will concern all the municipalities of Umbria”.
Signed as follows:
Marisa Angelini, Mayor of Monteleone di Spoleto
Riccardo Aquilini, Mayor of Montecastrilli
Enrico Bacoccoli, Mayor of Valfabbrica
Sauro Basili, Mayor of Allerona
Riccardo Bardelli, Mayor of Paciano
Valerio Bazzoffia, Mayor of Bettona
Agnese Benedetti, Mayor of Vallo di Nera
Damiano Bernardini, Mayor of Baschi
Cristina Bertinelli, Municipal Councilor of Perugia
Daniela Brugnossi, Mayor of Monte Castello di Vibio
Matteo Burico, Mayor of Castiglione del Lago
Maurizio Calisti, Mayor of Campello sul Clitunno
Virginio Caparvi, Mayor of Nocera Umbra
Andrea Capponi, Mayor of Costacciaro
Luca Carizia, Mayor of Umbertide
Elisabetta Cascelli, Mayor of Ferentillo
Giacomo Chiodini, Mayor of Magione
Giulio Cherubini, Mayor of Panicale
Luciano Clementella, Mayor of San Gemini
Gabriele Coccia, Mayor of Valtopina
Luciano Conti, Mayor of Avigliano Umbro
Marco Conticelli, Mayor of Porano
Mario De Carolis, Mayor of Cascia
Fabio Di Gioia, Mayor of Arrone
Annarita Falsacappa, Mayor of Bevagna
Leonardo Fazio, Mayor of Attigliano
Monia Ferracchiato, Mayor of Fossato di Vico
Roberto Ferricelli, Mayor of Piegaro
Gianluca Filiberti, Mayor of Lugnano in Teverina
Valentino Filippetti, Mayor of Parrano
Giampiero Fugnanesi, Mayor of Sigillo
Fabrizio Gareggia, Mayor of Cannara
Ferdinando Gemma, Mayor of Trevi
Federico Gori, Mayor of Montecchio
Guido Grillini, Mayor of Calvi in Umbria
Attilio Gubbiotti, Mayor of Sellano
Anna Iacchettini, Mayor of Collazzone
Moreno Landrini, Mayor of Spello
Angelo Larocca, Mayor of Monteleone d’Orvieto
Gianpiero Lattanzi, Mayor of Guardea
Antonio Liberati, Mayor of Otricoli
Eridano Liberti, Mayor of Torgiano
Daniele Longaroni, Mayor of Castel Viscardo
Lorenzo Lucarelli, Mayor of the Municipality of Narni
Paola Lungarotti, Mayor of Bastia Umbra
Gian Luigi Maravalle, Mayor of Ficulle
Marsilio Marinelli, Mayor of San Venanzo
Filippo Marini, Mayor of Poggiodomo
Diego Masella, Mayor of Fabro
Francesca Mele, Mayor of Marsciano
Massimo Messi, Mayor of Preci
Letizia Michelini, Mayor of Monte Santa Maria Tiberina
Maria Elena Minciaroni, Mayor of Tuoro sul Trasimeno
Giovanni Montani, Mayor of Acquasparta
Gianluca Moscioni, Mayor of Lisciano Niccone
Enea Paladino, Mayor of Citerna
Stefano Paoluzzi, Mayor of Penna in Teverina
Sandro Pasquali, Mayor of Passignano sul Trasimeno
Laura Pernazza, Mayor of Amelia
Manuel Petruccioli, Mayor of Giano in Umbria
Lorenzo Pierotti, Mayor of Corciano
Massimiliano Presciutti, Mayor of Gualdo Tadino
Stefania Proietti, Mayor of Assisi
Fausto Risini, Mayor of Città della Pieve
Fabio Roncella, Mayor of Montegabbione
Elisa Sabbatini, Mayor of Castel Ritaldi
Andrea Sisti, Mayor of Spoleto
Filippo Maria Stirati, Mayor of Gubbio
Rachele Taccalozzi, Mayor of Montefranco
Roberta Tardani, Mayor of Orvieto
Michele Toniaccini, Mayor of Deruta
Enrico Valentini, Mayor of Gualdo Cattaneo
Remigio Venanzi, Mayor of Polino
Fabio Vergari, Mayor of Scheggia and Pascelupo
Stefano Zuccarini, Mayor of Foligno
