Lepore: "the municipalities involved in the bad weather emergency risk seeing their budgets explode"

Lepore: "the municipalities involved in the bad weather emergency risk seeing their budgets explode"

“The municipalities involved in the bad weather emergency, especially small and medium-sized ones, risk seeing their budgets explode with all the consequences for citizens.
As regards the metropolitan city, however, we will have to do without other types of interventions. If we don't intervene with a commissioner, resources and a rule to cover the urgent need, we risk widening the problems even further." He says it Matteo Lepore, mayor of Bologna.

“At the point we have reached, we need – added Lepore – that there is a commissioner, who is a capable person, who is loyal to this territory, but that it is decided soon. This is really what we are asking for – he continued – together with a fund of at least half a billion for urgent interventions and coverage of what the Municipalities have already allocated. Let them decide who they want, but he must be a loyal person and above all he must come here immediately to work with us. We ask the Government to put a law in place as soon as possible to give certainty to the Municipalities, Provinces and metropolitan cities that the interventions that are carried out in extreme urgency will be refinanced. If we don't have these resources refinanced we will really be in difficulty."

Lepore, who is mayor of Bologna and also of the metropolitan city, signed a urgent measure to allocate 8,5 million of the metropolitan budget to restore roads damaged by the flood of May 16th.

Of these 5,3 million involve emergency interventions, for the removal of debris and tree trunks from bridge piers, closing potholes, preparing construction sites, signage, earthmoving and restoration of road surfaces. The interventions are distributed throughout the metropolitan territory, including areas, such as the Upper Apennines, previously spared from bad weather damage, and areas, such as the Sp7 Idice in the Municipality of Monterenzio, already rearranged after the flood of May 2nd and damaged again with the episodes of May 16th. Resources "they will also be used to finance the design and reconstruction of the Motta bridge", explains Mayor Lepore.

The remaining 3,2 million will cover urgent road restoration interventions on various provincial roads in the metropolitan city area.

These 8,5 million are in addition to the 3 million already deployed after the first flood event on May 2, which particularly affected the restoration of damage to the provincial roads of the Imola area. A new one is also being prepared further ordinary provision which includes, among other things, 1,3 million for the restoration of the Fondovalle Savena road after the bad weather emergency.