«Governing meant not only administering the ordinary, but activating paths of change, mending institutional and social relationships, and giving the city back the ability to invent and plan itself in the medium-long term». The mayor of Crotone, Vincenzo Voce, writes this in the end-of-term report for the years 2020-2026. The document constitutes an account of the activities carried out since October 2020, when the council began, which will end on May 24-25 with the municipal elections. «During the mandate – we read in the 150 pages – the administration faced a series of critical issues connected both to the changed socio-economic context and to the emergency needs that progressively emerged, identifying and implementing organisational, management and programmatic interventions aimed at guaranteeing effective and timely responses to the needs of the territory and the administered community».
Among the results achieved for the functioning of the body are the hiring of 214 municipal employees, including public competitions and stabilization of temporary workers, and the unblocking of non-compulsory spending through a “financial rebalancing process”. This was followed by having induced Eni Rewind to deliver the hazardous and non-hazardous waste from the reclamation of the former industrial site, which began “after more than two decades of waiting”, outside Calabria.
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