Of the “Pact for Naples” 27 months after its entry into force, the reorganization of the subsidiaries is the only – fundamental piece – that has not been launched. But in the autumn, presumably in October when the mayor Gaetano Manfredi will make his first mandate budget, the thorny issue of the municipal companies will be resolved. The mayor has decided the strategy: all of them the subsidiaries will change their skin and will have a Board of Directors – Board of directors – with 3 or, as seems more likely, 5 members – with a president and managing directors and an external general manager, chosen by the former rector, who will be responsible for drawing up the industrial plan to then submit to the Board of Directors.
To recruit managers, the Municipality relied on an international company that operates all over the world, Randstad. The CVs of those who aspire to the role of general manager must be sent to this company which the Municipality has asked to bring out the best 5 profiles which will then be transferred to the Municipality, which will draw from this list to renew the pool of managers. The era of sole administrators is over, for Palazzo San Giacomo it is the time of skills and managers, of people who must be paid because management cannot be entrusted to those who are not paid. A move that separates the Municipality from the pressure also of the Government which has already granted several extensions on the reorganization of the subsidiaries: either we start with the reorganization of the companies or the “Pact for Naples” which brings 1.26 billion into the Municipality’s coffers of which approximately 600 million by next year, risks being blocked.
In 2020 there were 13 participating companies, today there are 8 and from January 1st there will be 9. That is Anm, Asìa, Mostra d’oltremare, Napoli Servizi, Abc Acqua Pubblica, Caan, Napoli Holding, Terme di Agnano, the ninth will be launched in the autumn but will be operational from January 1st 2025, it is the Naples Heritage which will manage the entire real estate assets of the Municipality. Of these 9, two are in the balance. The Caan burdened by tens of millions of debts. It is the first wholesale market in southern Italy and despite the debt situation with the banks, it produces profits and employs over 2,500 families also considering related industries.
The Municipality is implementing a rescue operation. The CAAN has a board of directors composed of president Carmine Giordano and two councilors, here too in the autumn it will be decided whether or not to confirm the current management. But everyone, really everyone, is at risk. The second big patient is Agnano spa which is in liquidation. The employees have all been placed in other municipal companies, the attempt that Palazzo San Giacomo is making to revive the spa – whose potential is enormous – is to give it to the Napoli Fund in Invimit, essentially it is on the market.
However, the Municipality’s core business passes through the other companies that provide primary services, which have more or less regular budgets, but all of which need to improve their performance. Anm – Neapolitan mobility company – for example, after three years in an arrangement with creditors with which he avoided bankruptcy, he closed with assets of over 8 million. The sole director is Nicola Pascale expired on December 31 last year and is being extended. The general director is Francesco Favo which comes from Fs, strongly supported by the mayor to reorganize rail transport.
He has been in the saddle since March last year. Anm – which costs 116 million a year – like the other investees it will have a board of directors in the autumn and if for Favo there should be no problems regarding its confirmation, for Pascale permanence is by no means a given. Asìa – the company that deals with waste and which with the new structure will also be in charge of urban greenery – has as sole administrator Domenico Ruggiero. Estimated at Palazzo San Giacomo, it comes from the Sapna company of the metropolitan city. With the advent of the Board of Directors everything will be questioned. The same path that will be there for the other subsidiaries, where there is a special observation which is the Mostra d’Oltremare which has a president – Remo Minopoli – and the delegate councilor Maria Caputo.
The exhibition for Manfredi it must have not only the original mission of hosting trade fairs, but must open up to new markets such as entertainment and free time. Naples Services it is the mother of all reforms. The sole director is Daniele D’Ambrosio. He will transfer the business branch of the assets to the one being established Naples Heritage to take care of 5 fundamental assets: all schools, cemeteries, market areas, all sports facilities and municipal offices: will have complete management, from cleaning to ordinary and extraordinary maintenance, custody and security. ABC Public water changes skin, the resignation of the president Alessandra Sardua few days before the natural deadline, opens the door to the establishment of a new board of directors – where everyone will be paid – but above all the hunt for a manager.
Napoli Holding is led by Amedeo Manzo He too is expiring and is highly esteemed by the mayor because it was his idea for the agreement that prevented the mobility company from going bankrupt. Anm is technically a company of Napoli Holding. In short, the revolution has begun. Manfredi has set up a mechanism by which the choice of managers is guaranteed. But then he will have the big grain of the composition of boards where the aims and expectations of politics are very high because even politics is on the hunt for valuable seats. And the negotiations will start one minute after the European elections.
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