Resources of 4 million euros have been recovered from the budget change approved yesterday by the Council. The three-year public works plan will thus also be modified. Around 40% of the 4 million come from the subsidiaries and the rest are determined by an efficiency improvement operation deriving on the one hand from the monitoring of the management activity of the various departments of the organisation, on the other from the surpluses detected with the approval of the 2023 statement. In terms of tax revenue, 600 thousand euros more than expected were collected in 2023. Mortgages have also been renegotiated and those taken out but not yet used in the progress of the works have accrued interest income in 2024 for an estimated amount of 400 thousand euros. On the expenditure front, the approved variation shows: the increase in activities in the Culture area for over 100 thousand euros; ordinary maintenance relating to public works, greenery and beaches for approximately 900 thousand euros; resources for additional public transport (paid by the Municipality and not by the Region), including summer shuttles to Portonovo and the main events for 450 thousand euros; coverage for the tender for school canteens, the strengthening of nursery schools and the summer camp service for over 1.1 million euros; the addition of approximately 250 thousand euros for tourism, villages and democratic participation; 50 thousand euros for Youth Policies and 40 thousand euros for the birth bonus for the second half of 2024. Finally, as regards sport, the Administration continues to guarantee support to sports clubs that organize tournaments and competitions with an overall annual support of 50 thousand euros official championships in the area.”It is not just a variation but a real completion of the 2024 budget forecast – underlines councilor Zinni – this figure, if added to the previous budget variation of around 1 million, begins to realign us to the current available expenditure In fact, this year we had increased costs of 5 and a half million, partly due to the renegotiation of mortgages from the previous administration, and this led to initial difficulties from the opposition on the profits of the subsidiaries that these have been agreed with the governance and do not affect in any way the ordinary and planned activity of the companies”.
Regarding public works, the 2.7 million euro surplus available in the landslide funds will be used for the safety and redevelopment of Villa Colonnelli, the creation of a green area and car parks in the area of the former Benincasa school, works of maintenance of road infrastructure, extraordinary maintenance of the Posatora cemetery and the creation of a car park in via Flaminia in the starting area of the cycle path. The surplus relating to the historic center, equal to approximately 420 thousand euros, will be dedicated to various interventions, the most significant of which concerns the Civic Tower of the Prefecture. The sum available on the mortgage front amounts to 1.5 million euros, a surplus generated by the reconfiguration of old mortgages already taken out. Of these, 1.3 million are intended for the redevelopment of Piazza delle Repubblica, port entrance, Portella Santa Maria, and 200 thousand euros for the architectural redevelopment of the Risorgimento gallery.
