L’AQUILA – “The city of L’Aquila has 1 million 542 thousand square meters of public greenery to maintain; this figure does not even include the greenery of the cemetery areas. The three cuts that are generally carried out in the summer period have a total cost of 600 thousand euros. The 1st commission on grass mowing was held today, at my request. Despite the amount of interventions, the assignment of the works to ASM – which was not entrusted with the greenery in the historic center of the capital – was only made in mid-May and the consequential assignments by ASM to the cooperatives are still underway”.
This was stated by the opposition city councilor Paolo Romano.
“A real race against time that ASM must undergo, currently having priority over schools and public parks, but in fact still leaving the historic centre, hamlets, housing projects and maps in neglect. I have been saying for years that ASM should benefit from a multi-year contract in order to better organize itself to grow the company, allowing it to have greater investments and spin-offs, to have fewer costs for citizens and greater efficiency and order in the service. The councilor Taranta in the commission he denounced the lack of funds for greenery maintenance; in my opinion this is a political problem: for urban decorum, something can be taken away from the summer shows and the mayor’s pharaonic stages to guarantee an adequate mowing service for a regional capital. Having said that, the administration still has a budget surplus of 2 million: what do you expect to make a change?”.
“The watchwords are therefore planning, transparency and allocations adequate for the volume of interventions. Planning done in time would allow three (or more) grass cutting operations without causing any area of the city to experience inconvenience, the publication on the website of the municipal body of the number and dates of mowing in the areas of the territory, as happens for the demuscation, would provide useful information to citizens. Finally, a more substantial budget allocation is made with a simple amendment: I will take care to present it at the first available opportunity, hoping it is not rejected as usual by the majority”.
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