From corrierediragusa.it
The provision of project management authority for the port of Pozzallo has provided further confirmation After the decision of the Tar Catania in April last year that had annulled the decree which established the authority of management, rejected, in second place, almost a year ago, also from Sicily.
Now, will direct the town of Pozzallo to manage the future of the port structure, becoming the contracting procedure and the use of funds, regional and European, for the final leap that the port structure, now, wait a long time.
We have stock of the situation with the general counsel Asi Gianni Stornello a long interview that we propose below.
Stornello, because they are "noticed" only now that the management authority was evil "major" structure of the port of Pozzallo?
"The same promoters Management Authority knew that this instrument was a forced and only served as President of the Region to put his hands on contracts for the safety, as we see today, amounted to several million euro. The masterpiece in the negative sense of course, they did when they thought the Management Authority, which was not an institution as you may think, but a person, as a port authority, not only deals with contracts but also actual management of the port. A joke. I remember that during the period in which it was presented as the Management Authority, I happened to attend a conference organized by Ram, the network of motorways of the sea in Rome: in several asked me if the news was true and, to my confirmation , commented that only in Sicily things can happen like that. "
Who has prevented the development of the port structure, since, for many years, had always talked about putting in port security, arm extension, and so on, but nobody had his best to get out of this 'impasse' ?
"There is no doubt that Management Authority we lost years. And our own sponsors of the managing authority have their grave responsibility."
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"The whole of the deputation center-right, the regional members of the center-left the period 2001-2006, the President of the Province and in some ways also the ASI which granted the premises of the business center to a ghost, as in the offices of the Authority data management never went no. Not a word to the contrary from all of them have said yes to something just because he enjoyed the high patronage of the President of the Region which, at that time, was called Totò Cuffaro .
You agree that the contracting the town of Pozzallo?
"In this situation, because you go back to what is legally called" status quo ante, that is the situation existing before the establishment of the Authority management. The town of Pozzallo had already delegated to contract work made safe. Now imagine this delegation will be refunded.
Why do you say "I imagine he will be back"? With the Territory at the meeting Alderman things have been clarified?
"Look, who could grant delegation to the City of Pozzallo is the Regional Department of Public Works, responsible for routine maintenance and extraordinary ports. It is the same department who asked for the appointment to the Regional Management Authority. It 'a step forward that an important member of the regional government in charge Sorbello which the commissioner, upon the urging of an equally influential regional parliamentary what the Hon. Riccardo Minardo, is expressed as it was expressed. But before considering the final closing of the Management Authority and before considering fledged town of Pozzallo the contracting authority requires formal documents of the Councillor for Public Works. Should also add that another element, very important: money, indicating the channel for funding, with the start of a complex procedure which may be one of the Structural Funds 2007-2013. "
the way, the 25 will suffice million € to meet the needs of a structure port, gateway to the Mediterranean for the free exchange of goods, in a few months?
"A nose I think so. It 'clear that we need a serious statement before leaving. The magnitude of what is still there."
It 's well known that' on Ammatuna and the mayor of Pozzallo, peppe sulsenti , have never hidden the management to think differently "in toto" of the port structure. What, in your opinion, the political scenarios that could be achieved now?
"I do not think you make the interest of the port of Pozzallo where we fell in love with their ideas. It should do good to the port first. And the future ports are in systems. The port of Pozzallo is projected course toward a system in which many call the Southeast, because it brings together the ports of south-eastern Sicily from Pozzallo to Catania. It 's a solution that would also give the territory the opportunity to participate actively in the management of the entire system. And I mean the territory of the Municipality of Pozzallo, the Province, the Chamber of Commerce, the operators, the Coast Guard. Saturday, October 25 we will discuss this in the morning in a conference organized by the Chambers of Commerce of the province of Ragusa, Siracusa and Catania, which will be held at the Sala Pozzallo fewer absences. They are among the speakers and have the pleasure of arguing that a proposal if implemented is the only one that can secure the future of the port of Pozzallo.
C. Castaldo