BADIA POLESINE (Rovigo) – Among the reports accompanying the approval of the 2023 final budget, in the session of 29 April, the much awaited one was that of the councilor for public works Cristian Brenzan.
The councilor has grouped the works into three macro-works that have affected the past year, all entirely financed with the Pnrr tenders. It’s about the securing the G. Ghirardini middle school, with extraordinary maintenance interventions, energy efficiency and the removal of architectural barriers, works which began on 26 June 2023 and which should be finished by next June, with an initial contract of approximately 340,000 euros. 300,000 euros have been committed and with the difference the administration is preparing the lift independently. The project is by Mirko Rossi, construction management engineer. Nicola Morini and Roberto Romanini is involved for security.
Work is underway for the creation of the canteen (project amount 680,000 euros), with completion expected in September 2024. The management is entrusted to the architect Mascellani and the safety to the surveyor. Pagliarulo. “At the end of 2023 – declared Brenzan – we had reached the amount of approximately 120 thousand euros of works envisaged in the procurement contract”.
The other intervention concerns the securing the Pertini primary school in Piazza Marconi (project amount 800,000 euros), with work starting at the end of the current school year. In this case the design is by the engineer. Concato and coordination for the safety of the architect. Mascellani. “Work will be carried out on the bathrooms and forced ventilation will be implemented in the classrooms with the aim of increasing energy efficiency, while in the part overlooking the courtyard, six fixtures will be replaced”.
The works carried out by external personnel instead concerned the road system, for which the councilor spoke of the restoration of the asphalted road surface and the stabilized road surface, with verification and replacement of the road sign poles.
The painting of some classrooms in the schools was also carried out with ordinary and extraordinary maintenance on the electrical and plumbing systems of all municipally owned properties.
Aware that the interventions do not exhaust the needs, councilor Brenzan however recalled that the staff is only 4 units.
Among the main expenditure items of the technical office there are 39,000 euros for professional assignments, 10,300 euros for the supply of building materials, 37,400 euros for the purchase of maintenance goods, stationery 500 euros, first aid clothing 5,280 euros, fuel and vehicle maintenance 14,000 euros, various signage 7,900 euros, expenses for IT supports 41,100 euros, 102,000 euros for extraordinary work entrusted to external companies and 27,300 euros for various maintenance.
The councilor also spoke about the Council of the hamlets, underlining the administration’s commitment to listening to requests from peripheral areas in order to provide answers.
Mayor Giovanni Rossifinally, responding to a question from the councilor Chiara Santato, on the discrepancy between the expected completion of the works and the testing on 30 June 2026, explained that this depends on being able to operate only when schools are closed. Therefore, prudentially, that test date was set because that is the deadline for reporting for Pnrr financing.
Ugo Mariano Brasioli
