The Municipality has decided to invest 1.1 million euros in new professional positions to speed up the design times and therefore the opening of public works construction sites.
This is what emerged yesterday afternoon during the online session of the Municipality’s council commission «Budget and Financial Affairs», chaired by Manuele Marsico.
Budget change
Marco Bosi, budget councilor, illustrated the contents of the changes to the 2024-2026 budget forecast and the contextual application of the surplus, focusing above all on the restricted part.
Among the many items listed, an increase in spending forecast of 1.1 million for professional assignments stands out. «This is a precise political choice, strongly desired to speed up the planning times of public works and therefore of the related construction sites – explained Bosi -. The resources derive partly from the restricted surplus and partly from the institution’s free resources, which we have decided to allocate for this specific item”.
«Look to the future»
The amount will be used above all to finance assignments for architects and engineers. “This is a choice that looks to the future – Bosi himself specified – designed not so much for existing projects and construction sites, but for those envisaged in the organisation’s future planning”.
With the surplus set aside, Asp ad personam’s 2023 loss of 183 thousand euros will also be covered. The increase in spending on school catering, equal to 490 thousand euros, is linked «to the greater number of meals provided compared to the initial forecasts – specified the budget councilor – and is covered thanks to an increase in proceeds linked to school fees kindergartens and canteens. This is not an increase in tariffs, but an initial underestimation of revenues.”
Spending on before and after school services is expected to grow by two hundred thousand euros. The item will be financed by increased revenues, by sector coverage and by 20 thousand euros of restricted surplus.
Incoming dividends
Looking at revenues, the most significant item is that relating to the dividends of the companies ItCity and Infomobility, equal to over seven hundred thousand euros. Iren’s dividends, on the other hand, recorded an increase of 45 thousand euros compared to the initial estimates.
Finally, the resources linked to the Covid years, not used by the Municipality, will return to the State. “The municipal administration in 2020 – declared councilor Bosi – had managed to review its budget based on the pandemic situation, well before the arrival of the resources intended for the municipalities”.
Luca Molinari
