The Metropolitan Council of Reggio Calabria, meeting in the Sala Leonida Repaci of Palazzo Corrado Alvaro, chaired by the metropolitan mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà, with the assistance of the general secretary, Umberto Nucara, approved a series of acts including some changes to the budget forecast for the financial year 2025-2027. Among these the Don Italo Calabrò Award, for the Education, Sport and Social Policies sector, while chapters have been established for the Grecanica Internal Area intervention ‘Grecanico Landscape Observatory’; the program for the re-efficiency and restoration of the functionality of the coastal defense works existing between the Municipalities of Reggio Calabria and Motta San Giovanni, in particular between Punta Pellaro and Capo d’Armi. On this point, there were interventions by the metropolitan delegate councilor, Salvatore Fuda, who specified that “these are long-awaited funds for extremely important interventions. The request to the Calabria Region was of a higher consistency – highlighted Fuda – between 1.4 and 1.5 million euros, but having obtained 800 thousand euros, we will be able to start a series of interventions to protect the municipalities historically most exposed to marine erosion”.
Councilor Giuseppe Marino also spoke on the same topic: “I consider this resolution very important – he reiterated – because we are able to intervene on a stretch of metropolitan coast. While we regret that the amount requested from the Region has not been totally fulfilled – added Marino – I thank our metropolitan offices for their dialogue with the Region, because they have put us in a position to start a process that will allow us to intervene with maintenance and improvement solutions for a stretch of marine coast that is becoming increasingly attractive also for water sports with sailing”.
The Palazzo Alvaro chamber also approved a series of off-balance sheet debts. The metropolitan councilors gave the OK to the Single Programming Document (Dup) 2026-2028 and to the ‘Public/Private Partnership Proposal for the redevelopment and management of the Sant’Agata Sports Center sports facility in Reggio Calabria. The topic was illustrated by the metropolitan deputy mayor Carmelo Versace “we were right to invest, over time, in this sports structure – he said – because in recent years it risked ending up in further bankruptcy. We were far-sighted in taking away the good from the then president of Reggina 1914, Saladini, immediately starting the process of redevelopment and modernization of a structure that would allow Reggio’s sportsmen to have a highly identifiable place for football again and also from the from a social point of view. Together with the mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà we have put in place a new tool, the public-private partnership, which today provides for the approval of the definitive project of over 2.5 million euros which will soon be put out to tender”.
“This too – concluded Versace – is a commitment kept”. The resolution for the recognition of the Rhegium Julii metropolitan literary prize as an event of high identity value was also confirmed, approving the new memorandum of understanding. At the same time, the high identity value for the ‘Corrireggio’ running race was recognised, with a change in the budget for the year 2026. The Authority approved the draft agreement for the implementation of the intervention relating to the National Strategy for Internal Areas (SNAI) called ‘Observatory of the Greek Landscape’ between the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria and the University of Mediterranean Studies of Reggio Calabria for the Sustainable Development of the territory (LaStre). A series of urban, peri-urban and extra-urban forestation interventions are also planned within the territory of the metropolitan city of Reggio Calabria. Finally, a budget change was approved, aimed at assigning to Svi.Pro.Re the service for the management of the education and communication assistance procedure for the school years 2025/2026 – 2026/2027 – 2027/2028.