“One of the biggest limitations of the last audit was the lack of propensity for reporting. In addition to increasingly precarious participatory policies, with the city council often being undermined and the neighborhood councils regularly debased in their representative role, it was the lack of transparency that left an indelible mark on the actions of this administration”. mayoral candidate Marco Giangrandi illustrates one of the cornerstones of his government program, specifying that “to govern we need maximum transparency, giving citizens the power of sharing. For this reason, our administrative action will plan all its interventions – in any sector of the municipal machine – by applying three essential conditions: verification of the real need for the work through feasibility studies or context analyses; necessary and actually available economic resources; identification of objectives that the intervention must satisfy and indicators to verify their actual achievement”.
“Sensatory cases like that of the ‘Novello construction site’, which escaped the control of the public body, must never be repeated – he states -. Because the duty of every Administration is to always monitor all phases of the process of carrying out a work : from the awarding of the works, which must comply with the Procurement Code with particular reference to aspects of transparency, to the monitoring of the contract to verify compliance with the execution times and the required quality standards, up to the verification of deviations from the objectives and targets target that has been set in order to intervene, when necessary, with corrective actions to avoid waste of money and time, in short, in the name of transparency which will have to overcome the defects of the latest legislatures accustomed to presenting every work. with a self-celebratory narrative, punctually leaving out data and evidence on their actual usefulness”.
“In our first hundred days of government, therefore, we will present a system for monitoring objectives, guaranteeing full accessibility to reporting data to all. To escape the culture of confusion, we will facilitate citizens’ access to the data held by the Municipality. Reporting must be semi-annual and annual and, through summary sheets with graphs and comments, it will be the main vector of our communication activity – he concludes – Whether we are talking about social issues or public works, urban planning or event organisation, sustainable mobility or tax collection, the Administration, before adopting any resolution, will always have to deal with these three conditions: planning, governance and transparency”.
