Sooner than final 12 months, on the finish of April – however nonetheless inside 5 minutes of the beginning of the summer season season – it was determined by the Ministry of the Inside the subsidy of the nation’s municipalities for a complete quantity of 15 million euros to cowl the prices of offering lifeguard companies on organized or unorganized seashores.
It’s recalled that final 12 months in mid-Could, the Ministries of Inside and Finance determined to distribute 10 million euros to 129 Municipalities of the nation, so as to rent lifeguards and buy the required tools, thus masking as many seashores as attainable. And that is to stop to the best extent what occurred in 2022 when a number of municipalities didn’t handle to cowl all their seashores with lifeguards attributable to a scarcity of assets within the funds or as a result of many tenders had been unsuccessful.
So this 12 months by resolution of the deputy minister of the inside, Theodoris Livaniou, was accredited grant of 129 municipalities, by debiting the ministry’s account held within the Deposits and Loans Fund underneath the title “Protecting every kind of wants of native authorities, and many others.”, elevated by 5 million euros, in comparison with final 12 months. In actual fact, based mostly on the ministerial resolution, the municipality of Zakynthos will obtain essentially the most cash for masking its seashores – 465,233.96 euros – adopted by the municipality of Sithonia within the prefecture of Halkidiki (456,164.80 euros) and the municipality of Hersonissos within the prefecture of Heraklion (435,871.81 euros). Within the prefecture of Attica, however, the municipality that can obtain the most important quantity of grant is that of Marathon, with the quantity secured from the ministry’s account reaching 347,989.65 euros. It’s price noting that the minimal sum of money that can be obtained by the municipalities, that are required to cowl a smaller space of seashores as lifeguards, has been set at 26,297.05 euros.
Already, nevertheless, in the previous few weeks the municipalities have began the tenders each for the lifeguard protection of the coasts. A typical instance is the municipality of Prevezi, which a couple of days in the past introduced a global open digital competitors for a complete of 11 seashores.
Reactions from KEDE
With out spin and in a temper to alleviate the hole within the notion of the problem of lifeguard protection, the President of Islands & Political Cohesion Committee of Okay.E.D.E. and Mayor of Kythira Efstratios Charchalakis.
“KEDE’s agency place is that any switch of duties or new duties to the Municipalities that’s not accompanied by the adequacy of the required assets, constitutes a bomb on the foundations of self-government and in the end harms the residents themselves. We now have emphasised this with a lot of our selections, by way of the Board of Administrators of KEDE, but additionally the Municipalities individually” he declares, setting the tone for what is going to comply with. “Relating to lifeguard protection, KEDE from the outset emphatically emphasised its objections to particular provisions of PD 71/2020, which have been mirrored in selections 90/2022 and 44/2022. KEDE notes that taking duty for the existence of lifeguards by the Municipalities is inherently problematic as most island and coastal Municipalities endure from a tragic lack of personnel that doesn’t even permit them to hold out tender procedures. This scarcity is understood to the central administration and its result’s that greater than 50% of lifeguard positions nationwide will not be coated a minimum of till mid-July. As well as, of the virtually 30 million Euros that the lifeguards price the 129 Municipalities which might be required to offer them, the Ministry of the Inside offers solely 15 million” argues Mr. Charchalakis and based mostly on our report, the problem of sufficient protection of assets is repeatedly raised to the related Ministers from the Bureau of KEDE for years. This 12 months there was a rise in assets, however they’re nonetheless not adequate, which is confirmed by Mr. Charchalakis, talking formally and as a consultant of KEDE, stating in cityhub.
“Municipalities that don’t even have sufficient money and assortment companies, should “lower their necks” to seek out cash to cowl an obligation given by the State with none assist. The related resolution was issued on 29-04 by the Ministry of the Inside, i.e. nearly firstly of the season and whereas the Ministry of Inside is aware of that for the inclusion of those quantities within the municipal budgets and the utilization of the funding, greater than 1 to 1 and a half months is required (reformation of Y and its approval by the Decentralized). Anyway, for the file, throughout Easter with hundreds of arrivals in Kythira, the trash was collected by the Deputy Mayor of Civil Safety, the Head of Technical Providers and a few volunteers, as a result of the recruitment of the IDOH caught for 1-2 months on the Ministry of Inner Affairs and one other for ASEP with the horrible excuse “we’ve got 332 municipalities and we won’t catch up”…. our limits, we of the island municipalities, have been exhausted”.
At cityhub we recorded some fascinating numbers: The Municipality of Paros obtained 92 thousand euros whereas the Municipality of Tinos obtained 186 thousand euros. The Municipality of Alimos obtained 26 thousand euros and the Municipality of Marathon 347,000 euros. The Municipality of Lemnos obtained solely 26 thousand euros. The quantities fluctuate yearly based mostly on sure standards. The opportunity of stabilizing sooner or later the most important share of funds distributed for lifeguard protection and having a five-year forecast would assist the municipalities to do their planning and to not search for lacking funds to cowl their wants.
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