What actions does the municipal administration intend to implement in relation to the provision issued by the Government on the “spending review of local authorities” and the consequent probable cuts to current revenue for the Municipality of Siena. This is the theme of a question presented by the councilors of the Democratic Party group (Giulia Mazzarelli, Gabriella Piccinni, Alessandro Masi and Luca Micheli) and the Progetto Siena group (Adriano Tortorelli and Anna Ferretti) and to which the councilor responded budget, Riccardo Pagni. “What we are talking about – declared the councilor – is a bill approved by the Government and passed, to date, in the first reading in the Senate and, therefore, a harbinger of changes in melius et in peius, which makes it impossible to make certain predictions. The bill provides that during the five-year period 2024/2028, and therefore for the duration of five years, a cut in resources will be made for local authorities of two hundred million per year in the case of Municipalities and of fifty million per year in the case of the Provinces and Metropolitan Cities. The first political data to be analyzed is therefore that relating to the reason why the State, represented by the Government, has revealed this need at this stage. All this clearly derives from the enormous debt contracted by the State, currently equal to 117.5 billion euros, with a final forecast of one hundred and forty billion, due to the provisions of the one hundred and ten percent ‘Superbonus’, which are influencing more than the state’s finances are negative and the finances of local authorities have a negative impact”. “From the statistics updated to date – continued Pagni – it appears that the initial expenditure of eighty-five billion euros concerned only 74 thousand condominiums, 237 thousand single-family buildings, 115 thousand independent units and even six castles compared to 12,187,698 residential buildings, part of which consisting of one million and 200 thousand condominiums in which fourteen million people live. The data after 30 April 2024 obtained from the Public Finance Observatory of the Chamber of Deputies specify that 495,467 interventions were eligible for the contribution for a cost of approximately 117.5 billion euros. That 110 percent measure served, therefore, only to facilitate the wealthiest, who had the possibility of facing the expense necessary for the efficiency of their properties even if the contribution had ceased, while the less well-off people were careful not to ‘to apply for this benefit, for fear of getting into debt and also losing the assets on which the work would have been carried out’. “Having said this – underlined the councilor – it is clear that the intervention on the ‘Superbonus’ will and will inevitably also impact subsequent state budgets and those of local authorities, for which the measure, if approved , turns out to be of a much less significant amount. This is because, in reality, the sum of two hundred million euros relating to the municipal solidarity fund, if it were to become definitive, would have to be divided among 7,900 Italian municipalities and would, according to Anci calculations, only have an impact of 0.5 percent of the amount total current expenditure minus the amount of mission number twelve (i.e. social expenditure)”. “With regards to the resources of the Pnrr – added Pagni – the sum could be deducted from the amounts assigned only in the absence of the last approved statement, but this is not the case of the Municipality of Siena. In this regard, we would like to point out that the Municipality of Siena and this administration are to be considered a virtuous example, being on time with the start of the works subject to the Pnrr and with the related reporting. In any case, should we have a reduction in the municipal solidarity fund, we will act according to the principles of the good father of the family, making savings on the least necessary expenses and, above all, on those expenses that will not foreseeably be realized during the year or in the three-year period, trying not to impose sacrifices on our citizens”.
