BUSTO ARSIZIO – There is a new step in “race” to redefine canteen service rates for the 2024/2025 school year: by May 25th, families registered in the school canteens of Busto Arsizio must send their ISEE declaration to the Municipality. She asks in a letter the councilor for educational policies Daniela Cerana: the collection of income data will in fact be fundamental to “redetermine the service rates”. Applying those discounts, compared to the cost of the meal increasing to 6.30 euroswith which the administration committed to mitigating the expected increases.
The letter
«Having to estimate e quantify the impact of the economic resources to be allocated – writes the councilor – the active collaboration of families is requested in inserting the valid ISEE declaration in the application for registration to the service. Only later, with the data in our possession, the date of the meeting with the parents will be set.” Indirectly, a response to the open letter from the coordination of parents’ representatives, aimed at recalling the commitments made and to ask for a new comparison immediately before the end of the school year. Furthermore, the councilor also reiterates in the letter that “the primary objective” is to “support families in conditions of economic vulnerability and facilitate access to the service, responding to the work-life balance needs of parents and especially where the canteen service is included in “school time”». A reassurance for parents.
Fiore clarifies
Meanwhile the municipal councilor of the mixed group Emanuele Fiore clarifies his position with respect to the words of mayor Emanuele Antonelli in the city council, when he accused him of the abstention vote on the 2024 budget which introduced the new canteen rates. «I’ve always said that I never vote for one partyand I abstain if I don’t have sufficient information, and this was the case of the budget voted in December – underlines Fiore – the increase in the cost of meals had not emerged in the reports and councilor Cerana in his speech she was careful not to say that she had revised the tariffs upwards. Then, when, after a very guilty delay and after registrations had been made, the problem arose, I immediately moved to discuss the problem. Now, the mayor threw the ball back on my vote of abstention, but what is serious is that, after having refused to discuss my motion in the April council, in the month of May the committee on my motion has not yet been convened and I am willing to bet that they will summon it after the fact to force me to transform it into a recommendation.”
