The Metropolitan Council of Reggio Calabria during the last session, chaired by the mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà with the support of the Secretary General, Umberto Nucara, approved a series of points on the agenda, including a variation to the budget for completion works iti panella of Reggio Calabria and the completion of the Taurianova Palasport. On this point, he reported the metropolitan manager Giuseppe Mezzatesta who highlighted that, thanks to new economies, an elevator and firefighting system will be made for Iti Panella. As for the works in Taurianova, this is the completion of the interventions at the Palasport relating to the realization of the game surface.
Also thanks to a change in the budget, with about 100 thousand euros, the properties owned by the Metrocity and intended for Carabinieri barracks in Stilo and Fiumara will be renovated, with the contract already started and the start of the works scheduled in a month. The budget variation for the agreement relating to events for the ‘100 years of the Leonardo Da Vinci scientific high school of Reggio Calabria ‘.
The deputy mayor Versace instead illustrated the proposal for intervention for the cultural and social regeneration of small historical villages, relating to the Greek language and which will affect the Municipality of Roghudi. Also defined and approved some off -balance sheet debts and the safeguarding of the balance and general settlement of the financial forecast 2025/2027. In a tourist perspective and the enhancement of the territory, the classroom of Palazzo Alvaro also approved the intervention for the start of the process for the creation of the ‘typical restaurants’ network, illustrated by the manager Giuseppina Attanasio.
Green album also for the recognition of ‘high value to identify’ for three festivals: ‘Reggio Calabria Filmfest – Strait Festival ‘,’ Cittanova Theater Season ‘is the enchanted village Borgo International Street Art Festival’ in Gerace. On this last point, the Metropolitan Councilor and Mayor of Gerace, Rudi Lizzi who highlighted that “the event, has been active for 25 years, intervened, represents an integrated promotion model capable of enhancing the entire metropolitan territory, thanks to the presence of artists and shows of high cultural value.” The one put in place by the Metropolitan City – added Lizzi – does not represent only financial support: it is the recognition of the work done in the area by a municipal administration that has believed in culture as a of development and social cohesion “.
Finally, the Council approved a motion for the establishment of the Department of Medicine and Surgery at the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria. The act, prepared by the mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà, was illustrated by the metropolitan deputy mayor Carmelo Versace provides for the support of the institutive path by making available to the University: the ‘Boccioni’ building, worth 5 million euros, during the redevelopment by the Metrocity; the agreement with the qualified contracting station; The management of the assets, including the availability of at least three employees for auxiliary and concierge services.
For the metropolitan mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà was “a very important advice, within which decisive points for the metropolitan territory have been approved on the agenda, from many points of view. I want to remember the interventions in some schools, in particular the ‘Panella’ Institute of Reggio Calabria and interventions in the Taurianova gym. The relief are also the redevelopment interventions that we will do within some barracks of the carabinieri, in particular that of Stilo and Fiumara. And then – added the first citizen – the institutionalization of some cultural events has been approved which, for years, have animate the metropolitan territory, such as the Rcfilmfest, the theatrical season of Cittanova and the enchanted village of Gerace. It is important to underline – he highlighted – as the metropolitan council, with a large majority, has approved a motion on the path of realization and opening of the Faculty of Medicine a Reggio Calabria. For several weeks – recalled Falcomatà – meetings, interlocutions and comparisons with all the institutional subjects who, in some way, have responsibilities on the subject, of course the Region, the Order of Doctors, the Mediterranean University and the Uniical have been underway. During these meetings, points have been established that each entity should have carried out. We did it. The Municipality has inserted the availability of the “Boccioni-Fermi” institute to carry out the didactic activities and the Metropolitan City has made available the single contracting station for all those who will be the races relating to the opening of the faculty and also the service staff for the opening and surveillance of the premises where the activities will be carried out “.
For the metropolitan deputy mayor Carmelo Versace “once again the Metropolitan Council has decided to continue, compared to the guidelines indicated by the mayor Falcomatà, to invest, in an important way, on the schools, in this case the second degree school” Panella “of Reggio Calabria and the Taurianova sports hall. School building and sporting building, therefore, with particular attention both to the metropolitan territory and, above all, to what are the educational institutions in general. He continues therefore – concluded Versace – the work precisely to make the 48 secondary structures more efficient and the avant -garde of which the metropolitan city holds responsibility “.