“For reasons of transparency and respect towards citizens, just over a month before the elections, we ask the Sanremo city council not to decide on the entry of the private sector into Rivieracqua but to wait for the new administration that will emerge from the June vote ”.
The intervention is signed by the Rolando Mayor Committee, a centre-right and civic coalition, in relation to the practice which will be discussed in the city council this evening. A practice which, as the city councilor Andrea Artioli also specified, does not have an urgent nature and is even brought into the so-called white period in which the outgoing council must by law limit itself to ordinary administration.
“Rivieracqua – continues the Committee Rolando Mayor – has become, after the ASL, the main public company in the province with over 200 employees and a turnover of over 40 million euros. The approval of the area plan, the obtaining of over 40 million euros of PNRR funds, the new internal organization already make it possible to guarantee the economic and financial balance of the company and at the same time repay previous debts without necessarily having to resort to a private partner. I believe – this is Rolando’s thought – that not only water should remain public but also management should remain completely public as it represents a resource for the Province.
The socio-economic consequences of essential activities such as aqueducts, sewerage and purification allow for full control of the territory for the improvement of the quality of life of all citizens (sub-services, utilities, bathing) allowing the proceeds of the tariff to be distributed exclusively for investments in infrastructure for maintain and improve the quality of services. The entry of a private partner into an essential public service with a strongly territorial character (water is collected, distributed and discharged on site) would lead to the decentralization of many activities with a loss of related activities and a reduction in investments. Public management goes exactly in the opposite direction. And now that, after so many sacrifices – concludes the Committee -, Rivieracqua is starting to function and is totally public, it would be a shame to give it away to the private sector. I know that this thought of mine is shared by other candidates for mayor for the municipality of Sanremo. I therefore believe that, given the importance of the city of Sanremo in our Province, any decision relating to a possible privatization, even partial, of Rivieracqua must be postponed until the election of the new Mayor of Sanremo.”
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