Second inspection session of the year for the Ragusa City Council: according to the regulations of the civic assembly and the council commissions, two per month would be scheduled.
Without opposition worthy of the name, the Cassì administration has managed to accustom the city councilors to these rhythms.
Moreover, there is no form of respect, if not formal and apparent, for the elected representatives, even the majority representatives are kept under the yoke of the mayor, they cannot express themselves, they cannot criticize, they must observe what is established in the meetings of preventive catechesis at municipal councils.
The minority councilors are not taken into account, the few recalcitrant ones, there are a couple of them left, are not listened to, they are not even given answers to questions in due time, as happened in this last session, they are also treated badly by some councilor who exploits the situation, feels defended and talks too much.
Moreover, when in the chamber, in the penultimate session of the municipal council, we listen to the leader of the Democratic Party exhort the administration to clarify the fibrillations in the majority, stating “if you need help, we are here” or councilor Chiavola who boasts of not publishing photos on social media that demonstrate the lack of decorum in the city, preferring to wait for interventions that do not arrive, all hope of normal politics, made up of a democratic majority and opposition, has been lost.
The only exponents of the Brothers of Italy and the 5 Star Movement are completely irrelevant, as they make little and bland opposition, when they do, councilor La Porta is also aligned with the PD, only councilor Mauro and his group colleague remain, who are too silent. , The next day.
As we will see, in this last session, Mauro raised very delicate and sensitive problems relating to Iblea Acque, but the Mayor appears very calm, also because the issues raised are relevant to the subsidiaries and do not refer directly to the administrative activity.
At the moment, no one has managed to make a breakthrough due to the alleged irregularities in the approval of the Town Plan; the last thorns in Cassì’s side remain, the councillors, elected from the majority lists, Bennardo, Caruso and Zagami, a composite trio, each elected from a different list, in the spirit of Ignazio Abbate’s Christian Democracy, who have been threatening to create a new council group for some time, who are now waiting for the results of the European elections, to understand what is best to do.
We will have to verify the weight of Abbate, the weight of his people in Ragusa, the weight of Cassì who should converge his votes on Falcone of Forza Italia, even apparently irrelevant results, such as those of the PD or De Luca’s party, could be useful to outline the future of this city where someone is moving for the regional ones but, above all, for the next municipal ones.
With so many people hospitalized in the ward, minorities, from those in a deep coma to those who cannot recover but will be discharged, only a bright future looms for Cassì and his magic circle, if anything the problems, which are still in an embryonic state, they will be among the aspiring new protagonists of the same magic circle.
What happened in the inspection session on Wednesday 22 May is the clear representation of this state of affairs, of Cassì’s desire to continue with a slow but safe navigation, with the weight on the vessel of a handful of new allies who, finally, have left he too was convinced, they did not bring any added value to his government and his majority, with elements that proved to be authentic dead weights, a navigation favored by the silence that weighs on the few sensitive issues raised and by a resigned calm for the implementation, if ever there was a need, (the first electoral program completely ignored docet Ed.) of the electoral program.
All topped off with an always positive on-board bulletin, where every criticism is belittled, every observation ignored as instrumental and every critical issue minimized.
Four questions were examined: two regarding San Giacomo from councilor Chiavola and one from councilors Bennardo, Zagami, Caruso: signage, maintenance, cleaning of roadsides, excess spontaneous vegetation. And there the festival of we will see, we will do, we are providing, we are planning.
Critical issues that have persisted since the installation of Cassì 1, admission that the signs date back to decades past, but, calmly and according to budgetary needs, they will be addressed.
Money for culture, experts, the ephemeral and the whims of useless public works, can always be found when it comes to street cleaning, maintenance, unkempt greenery, disastrous children’s neighborhoods, poor lighting, interventions in the hamlets, and other more or less urgent interventions, everything is done calmly, when there is money and with bureaucratic procedures that make one shudder.
But no one rebels, on the contrary they declare themselves satisfied with the answers, received even after four months.
With little political weight and equally poor result, the question of the trio Bennardo, Zagami and Caruso on the uses of the funds of Law 61/81.
The group is too disaggregated and, inexplicably, continues to want to move together: too conditioned by political representatives, councilor Caruso, who at the very moment of discussing her question, preferred to lead the session as vice president, too moderate, elegant and contained councilor Zagami who allowed himself to be treated badly by councilor Gurrieri, a nominee who threw in the faces of those elected by the citizens, without any respect, him and councilor Bennardo, abstaining from doing so towards the vice-president of the Council, the poor percentage of attendance in the chamber for the vote on important documents.
Free from constraints, councilor Bennardo, but not intending to sink the knife into the wounds, declared only in the chamber, in response to the councilor’s question about the historic centres: “Counsellor, you told half-truths and many lies”.
After all, the king of the historic centers had to invent something, a sector which with roads, urban mobility, public greenery, decoration, collection of abandoned waste, culture and tourism is part of the delegations of the cosmic nothingness of this second mandate of Mayor Cassì.
In the end, from an important, detailed and timely question on the use of the funds of the Ibla Law, for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, also thanks to the mistake of choosing the oral answer, nothing came of it.
We asked which works are being carried out and which are to be started, no response, charges of responsibility for delays, no response, the reason for the delays in approving spending plans, no satisfactory response, failure to update the institutional website of the Municipality regarding the matter in question, no feedback, and the last concrete question: what were the strategic works carried out for the development of the historic centers starting from 2018? No reply.
Late, partial, irrelevant responses, instead of going around citing laws and decrees, one should have asked very simply, for each year, for financing, details of sums spent and details of residuals with possible subsequent use.
The councilor instead focused on banal and ordinary elements, the reserved share of funds for office expenses, events, organisation, it is not known how many times he mentioned the Historic Centers Commission which only has to approve the projects presented by the administration and, instead, as with the Tourist Tax Observatory, it is intended to be transformed into a consultative body, an alibi for participation and sharing of choices that will, however, be imposed.
Meanwhile, the historic center continues to die, residential and commercial depopulation, completely irrelevant incentives, lacking decorum, very long times for the spending plans of the 61/81, for public transport, for the detailed plan of the historic centre, for the car park in Ibla, for the surface metro, for the cleanliness of the city, for a cultural program worthy of the name and for tourist and economic development which are lacking but could be the driving elements, especially tourism if managed by leaders and competent people in the field.
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