«Larino Sabbia d’Oro». Paraphrasing the name of the famous Friulian tourist resort, the opposition to Palazzo Ducale of the “Together for Larino” group returns to controversy over the management of the institution.
«The patronal holiday has now passed and, with a clear mind, we can better reflect on how much can still be improved to make those days, in everyone’s eyes, the most beautiful in the world.
Once again, we have to return to the issue of cleaning the streets, during and after the procession. Ours is not a fixation, but a reflection that we make every year, because we ask ourselves, why, for a cost of 20,000 euros, we manage to present to the numerous visitors a completely dirty and smelly Via Cluenzio, even the evening of May 26th, on the occasion of the much publicized concert by Max Gazzè? The walking street, where there are also catering and drink serving businesses, whose original color was not recognised! In our opinion it is a duty, there are times and ways to do so, to present the main street of the Historic Center in conditions worthy of being offered to the visitor.
We also want to go back to the amount spent on cleaning, given the not excellent result, in particular on the “cleaning and sweeping service of the streets and squares during the festival” and on the provision of “supply and installation of sand for festivities ”, respectively equal to the amount of €12,977.75, the first and €976.00 the second.
Regarding the first, despite the efforts, considering the staff and means used by the entrusted company, we cannot understand how such a high figure can be reached, if not in the face of an hourly wage that exceeds 50 euros/hour/worker, considering holiday, overtime and evening/night work.
Regarding the second, we did a small market survey. Fine sand, at retail, even for small quantities, has a price on the market of around 58 euros/cubic metre, coarse sand around 44 euros/cubic metre; if you go directly to the quarry, the price drops by up to 30-40%. A cubic meter of sand, dry, weighs approximately 15 quintals.
Remaining at a retail supply, making the appropriate reports, for the San Pardo holiday, approximately 17 cubic meters of fine sand were supplied, equivalent to 255 quintals or approximately 22 cubic meters of quarry sand, equivalent to 330 quintals. Perhaps, precisely the movement of all this sand, with construction site wheelbarrows, justifies the high cost of the workers involved in cleaning during the procession.
Furthermore, how was all this quantity of sand used disposed of?”.
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