PESARO In the administrative no man’s land between old and new council, for now the new mayor Andrea Biancani is the new “operator” of Piazza del Popolo, borrowing the decades-old nickname of Enzo Belloni. “The party’s over” he said after his emotional inauguration in the building in Piazza del Popolo which for 10 years was the reign of Matteo Ricci, now a member of the European Parliament in Brussels, with the handover of power and the tricolor sash. On Thursday he stayed in Ricci’s office until 7.15pm and certainly not to empty the boxes or tidy up the desk.
«I met the first delegations to start thinking about the future executive – he says – The Democratic Party with the secretary Giampiero Bellucci and members of my list. We have started to reflect, but as I have already said, I don’t want to rush: the names who will support me will be decisive and I want to choose them carefully, including delegations and tasks. Two weeks seems necessary to me, but we’ll see.” First he had met the general secretary and the managers.
The approach
«Let’s start studying the municipal machine – he continues – to understand how it works and how it can improve. It is a topic that is very important to me: if the Municipality works, the city works. Indeed – he points out – I intend to reinstate the Management Committee as soon as possible. Practically it will be made up of the managers of the Municipality who will meet periodically: the optimum is once a week, I can chair it at the beginning, but once started my presence is not decisive, it is the officials who must talk to each other and exchange information to carry on the work. It will be a technical-operational summit where the top figures of the Administration are called to discuss and share ongoing choices and planning. I really care that all services dialogue and communicate with each other. Allow me, with due respect, to paraphrase the Gospel passage: in the Municipality the right hand must know what the left hand is doing.”
The ball
In a nutshell: woe betide proceeding in watertight compartments. On the other hand, Biancani has reiterated it several times: the municipal machine wants to reorganise, rationalize and strengthen it. The politics of the three “Rs”. «My passion – he points out – is the strengthening of the Operations Center. Let’s see how many people are needed and in which sectors. Does the Municipality of Pesaro need plumbers? Workers? Carpenters? Roadmen? Do we have the ability to hire? How much it is? What resources do we have? Or can some figures be moved from one sector to another based on needs? The important thing is to see people at work, those who are needed and needed. I want the dedicated staff out on the street at work and they must be sufficient in number. I heard the complaints and reports during the election campaign: the potholes, the roads, the greenery, the sidewalks, the furnishings, the cleanliness…”. In the meantime you have already announced that you will also meet the tour guides. «At the beginning of next week – he comments – in the meantime we have started with the expansion of the opening hours of museums and places of culture, accommodating the requests that have come from operators in the sector, considering the summer as Capital of Culture». That’s enough for a first day. «Let’s say – he concludes – that it was a full day. In the evening I saw my wife Marzia and we made a pizza at home, I wouldn’t have been able to go out. I hope to be able to carve out a few hours to go to the beach at the weekend in the usual place in Sottomonte.”
The appeal
In the meantime, there was also an appeal via social media: «I kindly ask you not to send me messages on WhatsApp or messenger for a few days. Don’t answer I’m sorry but it’s not humanly possible. Give me time to organize. There are thousands of them. I understand and I am grateful for the messages of encouragement or for giving me suggestions but it is not sustainable.” And this morning, another commitment: at the Red Cross where the new president is taking office: “And I care about it.”
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