“Our program envisages an authentic administrative revolution for the management of the Messina Districts. With us the Districts will no longer be places solely used for issuing certificates, they will be instruments for real decentralization”. Mayoral candidate Marcello Scurria declared this when illustrating the plans that will lead to the true valorisation of the entire Messina area and the relaunch of both the coastal and hillside villages. “The presidents of the districts – announces Scurria – will be true mayors at the service of communities which, in terms of population, are in fact small cities. We will make innovative tools available to them to reverse the centralizing course that has characterized the last 8 years of municipal administration”.
These are the main tools included in the program to give autonomy and efficiency to the constituencies:
1) The presidents will participate in the meetings of the Municipal Council when topics concerning local problems are discussed (school buildings, road maintenance, public green areas, etc.)
2) a municipal manager will be appointed for each district which will be the technical-administrative connection between Palazzo Zanca and the district headquarters.
3) the districts will have adequate human and economic resources for the management and care of the territory. They will therefore have spending power and will be able to act beyond simple reports.
4) the Neighborhood Police will be guaranteed to provide greater safety to the urban center and suburbs.
5) each district will have its weekly markets (food and non-food). Safe and accessible areas will be identified for carrying out commercial activities.
6) the constituencies will also be physically closer to the citizens. The headquarters of the II District, for example, at the San Filippo Stadium, will be moved to a more easily accessible location. And locations that present access difficulties or architectural barriers will also be re-evaluated.
In addition to the adoption of common lines, the “administrative revolution” of the Neighborhoods is also based on the valorization of the characteristics of the individual villages. It will be the Messina of “100 countries in one city”. Marcello Scurria’s program envisages the valorisation of the coastal areas, the hilly hamlets, the Ganzirri Torre Faro, Capo Peloro lagoon system, the public housing suburbs and the residential semi-suburbs. Safety will also be a cornerstone of administrative action with the identification of risk and post-disaster areas. The interventions will be illustrated in detail at subsequent events during the electoral campaign.
“With us, decentralization will be real – concluded Scurria – we will erase the idea of the suburbs. Each territory will be valorised in the context of a city which we will relaunch in each of its villages”.
The candidates for the presidency of the 7 Municipalities participated in this morning’s press conference: Alessandro Costa (I), Davide Siracusano (II), Alessandro Cacciotto (III), Nicola Cucinotta (IV), Raffaele Verso (V), Salvatore Scandurra (VI), Francesco Pagano (VII). Maximum support for the “administrative revolution” project.