“Aside from the controversies, alarmism and allegations, to comment on the very active communicator and President of CIVITAVECCHIA SERVICES PUBLIC Srl, personally involved in the electoral campaign both in the press and on social media, I should say that I am particularly happy with the results obtained from CSP in some specific areas (Pharmacies, special line of the TPL, increases in profits deriving from waste separation, technological support and so on) because I am firmly convinced that the company is a resource of this city that must be preserved and developed. As a former President of the company and as a candidate for the City Council, in discontinuity with the previous Administration, I cannot help but highlight, however, how an attempt is made to provide citizens with an incomplete and distorted vision of what is instead the real situation”. Thus begins a press release by Antonio Carbone, candidate for the city council with the “United for Civitavecchia” list for Poletti mayor.
“Such conduct, already difficult to tolerate if coming from a politician – states Carbone – certainly cannot be forgiven a public administrator who should maintain impartiality, transparency, as well as technical objectivity. Citizens and businesses cannot be deceived as they currently pay a much higher TARI than the surrounding municipalities. The numbers that emerge from the company’s financial statements, including the latest financial statement as of 31.12.2023 recently made public, disavow what was proclaimed by the President communicator. The positive reality is that revenues have grown as foreseen by the recovery plan adopted in 2020 and the new services have become fully operational.
In particular, the Pharmacy service has significantly improved because it is objectively managed well. Even the special TPL line, also designed in 2020, has become a driving force above all thanks to the full restart of cruise traffic, bringing an increase of over 1.8 million euros alone. The negative reality, hidden by the President, is that the management rigor, undertaken with enormous effort and sacrifice by everyone in 2020, which would have guaranteed the economic and financial balance of the company, a balance that does not exist today, has been abandoned. Production costs, reduced in 2020 to approximately 20,800,000 Euros, have progressively risen every year, up to the current approximately 24,800,000 Euros.
The harsh truth is that even today, the numbers say it, CSP is not a company in economic and financial equilibrium in its ordinary management, but it is a company that continues to lose approximately 1,200,000.00 Euros per year. Limiting the evidence to the macro budget items, here is what can be seen in the folds of the Notes to the financial statements made public:
– in 2021 the company achieved a positive result of 17,823 Euros, receiving, among the revenues, an extraordinary contribution from the Municipality of 711,000 Euros and a Covid contribution of 640,000.00 Euros;
– in 2022 the company achieved a positive result of 97,684 Euros, making use of, among revenues, extraordinary contingent assets of over 892,000 Euros and other contributions of over 200,000 Euros;
– in 2023 the company achieved a positive result of 17,554 Euros by making use of, among revenues, extraordinary contingent assets of 1,190,000 (less debt!) as well as other extraordinary contributions of over 165,000 Euros.
The cold numbers tell us clearly, indisputably, unequivocally how the ordinary management of CSP loses, it bears repeating, approximately 1,200,000.00 Euros per year, despite the 2020 recovery plan.
Bringing budgets into balance every year by making use of extraordinary contributions or extraordinary contingencies, provided they actually exist, is certainly not the definitive solution.
The truth is that CSP, still today, needs to be RENOVATED with the reorganization and rationalization of work and cost containment.
Abusing the use of temporary work generates extra costs, precariousness and a potential risk of subservience to deplorable and clientelistic logics.
If, following an efficient restructuring, the company really needs a new workforce, then it will be necessary to hold public competitions to select the staff to hire, interrupting the use of temporary work.
It is necessary to remodulate door-to-door collection systems and introduce more efficient and cheaper collection systems, also useful for the effective application and introduction of the punctual tariff.
We need new markets, new jobs and new services.
The management of the city’s public green areas can and must fall within the remit of CSP.
It will be possible to reduce the TARI by restructuring CSP, reducing its costs, making it more efficient through a program of recovery and overall reorganization of the service and collection methods.
We cannot help but consider the exponential increase in the use of temporary work for the years 2022 and 2023, the year preceding the administrative elections, as scandalous, for over approximately 960,000 euros in 2022 and a further approximately 600,000 euros in 2023, thus resulting in an extra cost of over approximately 2,100,000 euros per year.
I am convinced that with Poletti as Mayor, CSP will be able to be renovated and valorised and Civitavecchia will be able to benefit from it in a virtuous way.
The only way in which the continuity of society and the preservation of jobs can be guaranteed.”
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