“I was recently called into question by Councilor Moroni who, in a session of the LL.PP. Council Commission, on the sale of the land in via Pergolesi by the Lazio Region, in relation to my proposal for the construction of the new Gramsci school in those lots, he asserted that I am speaking out of turn because there would not be sufficient space there and that there is a report from the Sector Director, drawn up in 2020, which states that the surface area of the land is insufficient to build the school structure as I would have proposed. The former councilor, again from the LL.PP., echoed this, also adding that there would also be a traffic problem in building the new Gramsci there.
I usually read completely and try to carefully analyze what I want to reply, even more so those who hold an institutional role should do so.
I am sorry to note that perhaps they either did not read my proposal or did not understand it; I will summarize it briefly and in an elementary way. The report drawn up at the time by the Director, referring to the 1975 Ministerial Decree on school buildings, established that a surface area of 12,351/12,600 m2 was necessary to host the Gramsci school, while the lots between via Pergolesi and via Toscanini measure a total of 8935 m2.
The proposal, put forward by me in a personal capacity, and I don’t know where councilor Moroni deduced that it was from the M5S, involved the merging of the 8935 m2 land, located between via Toscanini and via Pergolesi and the subject of the Manager’s report, with the lot of approximately 5,300 m2, which currently houses the tensile balloon, located between via Pergolesi and via Paisiello. The total surface area resulting from the union would be approximately 14,235 m2, approximately 2,000 m2 higher than the minimum surface area envisaged by the Director to build the Gramsci school there. The union of the land would incorporate part of via Pergolesi, which would be replaced by the opening of via Paisiello.
To make the proposal even more understandable to the councilors, I have also attached 2 photographs with the delimitation of the affected area, which better explain the abstruse concept.
Regarding the unsuitability of the area for the increase in traffic that would occur if the school were built there, a problem raised by the former councillor, I would like to point out that not only would there be an increase in traffic even with the construction of the nursery, already in program, but there is already traffic for the school around the current location in via Marco Aurelio, surrounded by narrow streets, and that same traffic would be diluted in a larger area.
The location proposed by me would solve the mystery of the location of the future Gramsci whose construction, in the three-year period 2024-26 and for a cost of approximately 10,800,000 euros, was included in point 4 of the Single Programming Document and approved by City Council, but without indicating where, perhaps because an area, which is possibly central to the catchment area and in any case quickly and easily accessible beyond the one proposed, does not appear to exist.
In addition, I would like to point out the possible savings on the rent for the current Gramsci school, which we have been paying for 46 years, currently €185,000 per year, which could be used to pay the mortgage for the new school.
Lastly, I remember that the former ecology councilor of the last right-wing council before the current one, Bafundi, warned that under the municipally owned land in via Pergolesi there would be a landfill of plastic, pieces of asphalt and asbestos in large quantities, which could nullify the regional funding for the construction of a kindergarten, of around 2 million euros, which could be sufficient to carry out the reclamation of the land alone while it would be more than sufficient to build it in via della Piana, as proposed by the CdQ Poggio Valli – Vallelata.
To conclude, I point out to councilor Moroni that the Director’s report, in light of this proposal, is outdated, let him reevaluate it and if the school is not built there, it is only due to a political choice, yours”.
Thus, in a note, the exponent of the Five Star Movement of Aprilia, Andrea Ragusa.
