CambiAmo Capo criticizes Ingrillì’s strategy to pay off the debts of the champion Municipality.
Capo d’Orlando – The annual report of the mayor Franco Ingrillì is not liked by the minority of the city council. “No more administrators with Hyperbolic Egos – comments the CambiAmo Capo group headed by Renato Mangano – A History of Failures and Arrogance””.
The city councilors Mangano, Sandro Gazia, Teodolinda Liotta, Felice Scafidi, Giuseppe Truglio turn the spotlight on the “boulder represented by Local Taxes to the Stars and Essential Services reduced to the bone, which will burden individual citizens for another 18 years. We are referring to the Multi-Year Financial Rebalancing Plan developed by the Ingrillì Administration to stem “the institution’s previous debts”, as the mayor himself writes, underlining the efforts made to avoid default and guarantee the economic stability that should prevent the shipwreck of the City, but rather to allow it to be carried beyond the first centenary.
The mayor highlighted that salaries are now paid regularly as well as invoices for electricity supplies, precisely to mark the “change of direction” compared to past administrations, as well as wanting to speak to everyone, in simple language, to be understood also by those who still refuse to admit errors and illegitimacy due to the current serious financial situation of the Municipality of Capo d’Orlando, explain the councilors.
Furthermore, aware of the context of significant challenges that the population and administrators are preparing to face, the Mayor described his role as that of a tightrope walker committed to keeping the Municipality balanced between financial difficulties and the need to provide essential services to citizens.
However, it emerged, unlike now, that the Mayor had tried in the past to hide the responsibilities of those who had supported him politically, handing over the Municipality with “empty” coffers, and who demanded careless management of the accumulated debts . This attitude has raised concerns among citizens and fueled public debate on the transparency and integrity of the municipal administration. So much so that in the Report it was deemed appropriate to write: “[…] many citizens do not understand that this represents the most significant result of this Administration and perhaps not only of this, perhaps even the most important, well beyond the significant funding obtained such as the adaptation of the purification plant, the Scafa sewage system…” .
The opposition, for its part, has worked tirelessly, since the last council meeting, to bring out the real debt situation and promote legality.
Thanks to the commitment of the “CambiAmo Capo” group with the renowned “Operation Truth“, in continuity with the incessant control and direction activity carried out by the previous board minorities, the repeated and very serious accounting irregularities were brought to light, to be made ” untrue” the financial documents, thus contributing to re-establishing a climate of trust and transparency within the community, which today makes those majority councilors breathe a sigh of relief, who think they have reaped the fruits of “hard work”. Whose job?
Sooner or later will someone openly admit that without the qualified and determined inspection activity of the city councilors Mangano, Gazia, Liotta, Scafidi and Truglio, architects of Operation Truth, the majority councilors would still be voting on untruthful budgets?
All this certified by the Court of Auditors with the 2019 Report, and therefore it is no longer our word against that of the “Solonians” who wanted to “inhibit” and/or “ridicule” us for the exhausting battles of legality taken to the extreme.
At this point the question is: will anyone be able to find the right words to make citizens understand the concept of “False Financial Statements” given that the statement went from an administration surplus of approximately €700,000 to a deficit of €46,000. 000 to be repaid in 20 years?
The Municipality of Capo d’Orlando now finds itself at a crucial crossroads, on the one hand returning to the abyss and on the other continuing with the “Cultural Revolution” (however kind!) in order to face the financial challenges with honesty and responsibility thanks to collaboration between all political forces and the active participation of citizens, fundamental to building a sustainable and prosperous future for our community.
We all agree, hopefully, that those who have badly administered the city will not be given the helm of the “boat” (i.e. of Capo d’Orlando) again because they would not be able to save themselves for a second time and, in any case, again we are not sure of being safe, the last word belongs to the Court of Auditors which will have to express its opinion on the economic capacity of the Municipality to support the Rebalancing Plan presented.
