Collegno Today I attended a meeting of the Finance Committee with fellow mayors and councilors of the National Association of Italian Municipalities (ANCI).
Needless to say, the theme was the "Stability Pact", and the financial situation of municipalities, in the light of further cuts provided by Law Decree 78 of May 31, 2010, the so-called "maneuver" by 24.9 billion euro.
If the title of the decree was equivalent to that of a film, with "urgent action on financial stabilization and economic competitiveness, we would expect to see a" happy ending "sees all" stabilized "and" competitive. " We were wrong. The title, as often happens in the legislative process, mislead the viewer, or rather, the citizen. Viewed through the eyes of local administrators, the maneuver is yet another blow on the shoulders of the best performing municipalities, in spite of federalism and meritocracy: the death of the same towns and cities that in the coming years so indiscriminate suffer cuts amounting to 4 billion € 1.5 billion in 2011 and 2.5 billion in 2012.
cutting transfers to municipalities will inevitably lead to a reduction in services and increased costs. All this in a time when already other services, such as cuts in education are under intense nationwide.
With the transfer of the state (after the abolition of the ICI) municipalities pay the majority of current spending, ie spending on administration (bills, gas, services) it is clear that the decrease in this revenue can only fall back on the quality of life of citizens. Hitting
waste is all well and good, even in local government there are pockets of inefficiency and patronage that must be fought, but it is true that these represent a minority and that hit this part you touch us all, it sets off investments, ability to innovate and essentially political action contractors to bureaucrats who, with complex mathematical formulas issued by the Ministry of Finance, will tell us how much to cut from our budgets, not listen to reason, without distinction, pace and efficiency of programming.
The government has already used to spot interventions, these cuts would like to sell by the media as a fight to the privileges and bad policy.
Hand Accounts However, mismanagement does not seem to be that of the municipalities that can boast a budget balance in surplus, but that national public expenditure unstoppable.
Most municipalities, if only for their characteristic of proximity to the area and aware of the problems is administered by people who care about the future of their community with a sound management of resources, they do not know what a blue car and receiving the minimum allowance, working around the clock in the front row.
The costs of the policy should be done a bit of clarity. Differing
astronomical and double, sometimes triple posts of some MPs from those perceived by local administrators. About
is in charge of public affairs should not make a job, but must be able to devote to his undertaking without being external conditions.
In everyday life, to safeguard their interests is already difficult to enforce the interests of the community to enhance the public interest, represents an enormous challenge for those who want to do it.
Abolish all costs of the policy, or rather the costs of representation, thinking that the administration may be nothing more nor less than a pastime is to leave the management of public affairs only to those who can permetterso economically and who enjoys more protection work (just recall the distinction between public and private sector workers).
On the issue of local finance policy which takes no distinction (and we've seen this in previous posts) you need a strong mobilization on the part of local administrators before it is too late.
not enough protest of Mayors (pictured above, that of last year in Piazza Castello), but you need to involve all municipal councils and the population. About
autonomy has made it a political agenda as Mr Cota can not stay long without expressing a clear position against a maneuver that puts the knee joint.
We'll see if he has the courage to do so or if the election is already over, the Northern League can not escape this challenge even perchè è "da sempre radicata sul territorio", ne è un esempio il deputato vercellese Buonanno, che è anche consigliere regionale, sindaco di Varallo Sesia e vicesindaco di Borgosesia.
Quando si dice dono dell'ubiquità. Lo stesso Cota continua ad occupare due poltrone, quella di parlamentare e di presidente della giunta.
In Italia sarebbe vietato ma in Padania, a quanto pare, va bin parei.
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