TERNI – Change of tractor at the Terni airfield. Until now, for the maintenance of the greenery, there was Pennacchi. Now there is that of the former majority municipal councilor, Pocaforza. “I don’t have any contract with Terni Reti, I mow the grass because it’s long.” Franceso Pocaforza is actually cutting the grass at the airfield on Sunday morning when he replies to Umbria7: «Yes, I’m here, I don’t have any duties and I’m not a green warrior. I do other things in life.” In fact, the former League councilor who joined the Brothers of Italy and then Bandecchi’s party just before Christmas is an agricultural entrepreneur. And perhaps also due to his skills he was appointed coordinator of agri-food policies for Popular Alternative. However, the Pocaforza tractor has now taken off from Leonardi: this is why the green spaces are so well kept.
Not that anyone had complained about it before. On the contrary. Lucio Pennacchi took care of it until December 2023 and for 25 years, with five-year contracts. A colleague of Pocaforza. «We took care of everything – explains his son, Fabrizio Pennacchi – from the edges of the pitch to the junctions leading to the slopes, to the petrol station area, to the grass track. And all in full compliance with the Enav regulation, which we had to study in order to apply it. In exchange, Terni Reti let us cultivate the free areas with hay which we used for our farms. Then Terni Reti raised the problem of the relationship being too long, indicating the need to proceed with an expression of interest to involve more subjects. In fact, since 31 December 2023 we have no longer been involved in the airfield and I don’t know that there was a tender in which we would have willingly participated”.
