Ars, the funds “piloted” to the Municipalities: 600 thousand euros to the Messina Redevelopment Agency

The budget game is played on the role of the Municipalities. The examination of the maneuver in the Chamber begins today, even if the votes are only scheduled for tomorrow. But while the approximately twenty articles that make up the basic text are approved, behind the scenes work will be done on the two major amendments which will allow between 60 and 80 million to be used for the deputies’ proposals for the benefit of the constituencies. And this funding will be channeled through the Municipalities, then delegating to the mayors the task of investing it in public events or contracts and services. «Yes, the orientation is to assign budgets to the Municipalities for specific works and purposes», confirmed the group leader of Fratelli d’Italia yesterday, Giorgio Assenza. The associations that drew on the regional budget until last autumn will therefore have to submit their candidacy to manage shows and other events to the mayors. In the basic text there is already an example of how all this can happen. Article 6 was created in the commission precisely to channel extra funding compared to the ordinary ones only to some municipalities. And so, compared to the 350 million that will be used to assign ordinary funds for municipal budgets to all mayors, here are 350 thousand euros destined for the countries nominated as blue flag by the Foundation for environmental education, 150 thousand euros for those nominated as green flag and 100 thousand for those who are lilac flag. For the Municipalities that have won the Most Beautiful Village in Italy competition in the past, here is another 600 thousand euros and for those who have won the Borgo dei borghi prize another 240 thousand. Six million go to the municipalities where there are kennels. And then there are two different financing channels for the towns and cities most affected by the effects of immigration: the first 1.3 million fund goes to Lampedusa, Linosa, Pantelleria, Pozzallo, Modica, Siculiana, Porto Empedocle, Ragusa, Trapani, Porto Palo, Favignana and Catania while the second fund worth another 1.3 million goes to Lampedusa, Favignana, Melilli and Caltanissetta and is linked to initiatives to relaunch the image of the cities. For municipalities with UNESCO sites, 4 and a half million arrive, for those that will activate surveillance services on the beaches, 800 thousand euros are ready. For the valorization of Ragusa Ibla here are 1.2 million and the same for Ortigia. Eight hundred thousand extra euros also go to Agrigento and 600 thousand to Messina to finance the municipal agency for urban renewal and redevelopment.