For Monday, January 29 at 1:00 p.m., the Board of Directors of the Regional Union of Epirus Municipalities has been called to meet again, after the cancellation of the meeting of 23/1, due to lack of quorum.
Although we are at the end of the term of the current Board of Directors and the current administration of PED, since until the end of the month the representatives of the 18 Municipalities who will vote for the new Board of PED will be elected by the municipal councils, the meeting in question is important because it must take a decision to revoke the decisions of the 7/28-12-2023 meeting of the Board of Directors of PED Epirus due to its illegal composition, according to the relevant document (ref. no.: 3071/18-01 -2024) of the Decentralized Administration of Epirus- West. Macedonia.
At this meeting, we remind you, at the request of 1/3 of the members of the Board of Directors, a topic was brought under the title: “Completion of the Program Contracts between OTAs and PED of Epirus for the maturation of infrastructure projects” and a decision was taken by a majority, with the PED president in the minority , Christou Dakaletsis, also against the official recommendation which said that it is not legal to activate the programming contracts, which were signed more than a decade ago in order to receive studies that some municipalities do not even want. This decision essentially serves the payment request of technical consultant, who prepared the studies but this is done with a completely variable process, without actions of legal committees.
Despite the illegal decision regarding the studies, by the Decentralized Administration, because the quorum at the meeting on December 28 was made with the presence of Yiannis Gogolos, former municipal councilor of Igoumenitsa who had resigned last summer (!) without being replaced as he was due by the PED’s Board of Directors, two of the Municipalities that have the specific studies submitted their relevant payment requests to the competent Ministry!
The other issues
The other items on the agenda of the PED Board of Directors include the Voting of the Income-Expenditure Budget for the financial year 2024 of the PED Epirus and approval of the Financial Results Targeting table for the year 2024, the discussion and decision-making regarding the exercise of responsibility by the Municipalities of the waste collection of the road network under the jurisdiction of the Regions, the discussion and decision-making regarding the imposition of the waste burial fee, etc.
The detailed agenda is as follows:
- Revocation of the decisions of the 7/28-12-2023 meeting of the Board of Directors of P.E.D. Epirus due to its illegal incorporation. (Related to document number: 3071/18-01-2024 of the Decentralized Administration of Epirus-West Macedonia).
- Revision of the Income-Expenditure Budget for the financial year 2023 of the PED Epirus.
- Resolution of the Income-Expenditure Budget for the financial year 2024 of the P.E.D of Epirus and approval of the Financial Results Targeting table for the year 2024.
- Discussion and decision-making regarding the exercise of responsibility by the Municipalities for the collection of waste from the road network under the jurisdiction of the Regions (Article 41 of Law 5056/2023).
- Discuss and decide on the imposition of the waste burial fee.
- Taking a decision on the implementation procedures of the Act entitled: “Upgrading the knowledge and skills of the unemployed and strengthening their prospects of joining the labor market” and MIS 5068870 – MIS 6001967.
- Approval of the Practice of the Project Reception & Monitoring Committee (EPP) for the Work Packages WP 3 & WP5 entitled “Records, Itineraries, Action Plans, support and networking services” and WP 4 “Procurement and IT applications” ( SECTION 1) of the act with acronym PORTOLANES (MIS CODE: 5003841), (Interreg VA) EL-IT (2014-2020).
- Approval of the Practice of the Project Reception & Monitoring Committee (EPP) for the Work Packages WP 3 & WP5 entitled “Records, Itineraries, Action Plans, support and networking services” and WP 4 “Procurement and IT applications” ( SECTION 2) of the act with acronym PORTOLANES (MIS CODE: 5003841), (Interreg VA) EL-IT (2014-2020).
- Approval of the Minutes of the Project Receiving & Monitoring Committee (E.P.E.) for the 1st ADMINISTRATIVE VERIFICATION OF EXPENDITURE of the operation with the acronym PORTOLANES (MIS CODE: 5003841), (Interreg VA) EL-IT (2014-2020).
- Designation of representatives on boards and committees.
- Approval of expenditure for the supply of medical equipment which will then be granted free of charge to the University General Hospital of Ioannina – P.G.N.I.
- Approval of the extension of the lease of the office of the P.E.D. Epirus in Thesprotia for the year 2024.
- Approval of registration renewal of the P.E.D. Epirus as a subscriber to newspapers and magazines publications, etc. for the year 2024.
- Completion of the Program Contracts between OTA and PED of Epirus for the maturation of infrastructure projects (Request of 1/3 of the members of the Board).
- Approval of a Programmatic Agreement between the Parliament of the Hellenes, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Culture, the Region of Epirus, the PED of Epirus and the Municipality of Pogoni entitled “Programmatic Agreement for the Development of Military Tourism in Kalpaki” (Request of 1/3 of the members of the Board)
- Regarding requests from organizations and municipalities.
- Discussion on topics of general interest.
