Corigliano-Rossano (Cs), the Prefect’s warning also arrives for the final budget

The headquarters of the Municipality of Corigliano-Rossano

“After the warning to approve the budget forecast, the prefecture has now also received the warning for the final account, after the deadline of 30 April. The situation is more serious because by law ours has entered the list of municipalities subject to the envisaged controls for those that are structurally deficient, for which there is no shortage of indicators that represent the alarm bell for financial distress”. He states this in a note there Coalition for Pasqualina Straface Mayor.

And he continues: “But why haven’t they approved it up to now? Due to a cynical calculation, Stasi knows that, with the imminent elections, there is no longer any time left to activate the procedures for dissolving the city council. It is a final balance that makes water from all sides. They deliberately hid millions of euros of off-balance sheet debts: the 4 million for unpaid bills brought by the injunction of the Court of Rome notified to the Municipality and which the General Secretary-Director of the Lawyers Office had the obligation to communicate for recognition, assuming a serious administrative, fiscal and perhaps even criminal responsibility;

like the over 1.5 million euros again for 2023 bills that they wanted to pay with the 2024 budget with a resolution that the Board of Auditors ordered to be canceled following a report from the opposition; and, for the same reason, the 260 thousand euros of Max Pezzali’s compensation, included in a partially null determination and which in the final balance instead, by reversing, it is said to want to pay with the administration surplus”.

“There are therefore around 6 million – he concludes – all documented, which are missing in the quantification of the off-budget debts reported in the final balance sheet, which is thus false and unacceptable as presented by the Council. Not only that. This serious shortfall adds to a series of irregularities reported by the Auditors in their opinion, such as: the incongruous provision of the litigation fund, as a clear symptom of a greater mass of hidden debts and the enormous gap between collection forecasts and revenues which puts the cash balance in difficulty: for example for the waste tax, against a forecast of 21 million euros, only 75 thousand euros were collected in 2023.

The municipal councilors, the managers who express opinions, and the auditors themselves must take this into account during the examination and approval if they do not want to face personal responsibilities, the assessment of which is left to the Court of Auditors and the other relevant authorities.