The ARS approved the budget change maneuver. A package of interventions ranging from measures aimed at small and medium-sized businesses to reduce interest rates, which are higher than those in other regions, to contributions to Municipalities for the greater costs incurred for transferring waste abroad. “We respect the commitments made with the Sicilians on multiple fronts”, commented the president of the Sicilian Region Renato Schifani in a note. Other maneuvers will be the recapitalization of Ast, the strengthening of interventions for the water and agricultural emergency. “We continue our daily commitment alongside the Sicilians and their problems, with perseverance and determination. Thanks to Parliament, and first of all to its president Gaetano Galvagno, to the majority and the opposition who have given their contribution to solving strategic problems of our region”, declared Schifani.
“We are completing a corrective measure that offers huge allocations and concrete responses to various ongoing emergencies. We maintain our commitment to guaranteeing the financial stability of the Municipalities, allocating as much as 50 million to offset the extra costs of waste, a fundamental help for the mayors in containment of the TARI increases – added the regional councilor for the Economy Marco Falcone – Another 50 million will be donated to businesses, establishing a measure similar to the ‘Expensive Mortgage Bonus’ for families, in fact, through the Irfis a contribution that will mitigate the interest rate increases recorded in the last year for Sicilian companies. The regional government therefore intervenes in key areas such as agriculture, drought, business support, municipal balance, precarious employment and to the colleagues of the Sicilian Regional Assembly for the sense of responsibility demonstrated and the maturity of the debate conducted, however, in the interest of the Sicilians”.
