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Loris Bertacchini has been confirmed as president of Unicapi, the main cooperative in Modena (second in Emilia-Romagna) for undivided ownership housing.
He was chosen by the new board of directors, which elected Gianni Mazzoni and Omer Barbieri as vice presidents.
The 534 Unicapi members who participated in the meeting for the renewal of the corporate offices were asked to vote for two opposing lists. The eleven members of the board of directors elected were all on the list led by Bertacchini who, having become president for the first time nine years ago, is now in his fourth and final term.
‘The work done in recent years for the maintenance and enhancement of our housing stock has been rewarded – states Bertacchini – At the same time the members have shared the generational turnover started in the board of directors: nine out of eleven directors are new and we have also lowered the age average’.
In addition to the renewal of the positions, the Unicapi assembly approved the budget for the 2023 financial year, closed with a net profit of 390 thousand euros, allocated to the reserves, all indivisible, to increase the net equity, which now amounts to 25.5 million of Euro.
Last year Unicapi’s revenues exceeded 2.8 million euros; 89% of revenues (over 2.5 million) derive from usage fees.
‘After we had not increased it for ten years, at the beginning of 2024 we adjusted the fee to adapt it to the increases in general costs – underlines Bertacchini – If we consider that in the last three years alone inflation has overall exceeded 18%, we have left almost 500 thousand euros in the pockets of our members. The priority of our cooperative, in fact, is the utmost attention to the people who live in our accommodation. For this reason, for some years we have been analyzing our housing stock to help assignee members in difficulty to carry out maintenance interventions that are increasingly scheduled and less emergency. Without neglecting – concludes the president of Unicapi – all the opportunities to expand our assets to assign housing at sustainable costs’.
Established on 6 August 1971, in 53 years Unicapi has built 933 homes between Modena and fifteen municipalities in the province.
In recent weeks the cooperative, which is based in Palazzo Europa, is installing the defibrillator in twelve buildings it owns: six in Modena, two in Carpi, one in Camposanto, Corlo di Formigine, Mirandola and Sassuolo.
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