Here is the statement issued by the Cooperative Rom 1995
This cooperative manages the waste collection and bulky durable goods since 1999.Nell 'year 2004 was entrusted with the full recycling service in the town of Reggio Calabria to the joint enterprise Fata Morgana SpA and the Municipality of Reggio Calabria with different resolutions to come, promoting a binding agreement for the latter involving subcontracting to the ROM 1995. That contract was to expire on July 7, 2009, but several extensions have
you that we reached on the date of March 9, 2010 for the final conclusione.La cooperative in light of the difficulties with the Fata Morgana on delayed payments, has repeatedly requested, to provide for the new contract, the direct contribution to ROM 1995 for the services it operated, as required by law 381/91 on cooperative social
.
The City Administration has chosen instead of wanting to make a public tender for the service expectations of the entire collection (which also includes a bulky), however, assuring the continuation of the cooperative activities being carried out. At the invitation to tender for the service attended by only two companies: Fata Morgana
SPA SPA and Leonia. Given that both companies are controlled by the Municipality of Reggio Calabria,
given the constant assurances by the Town Council, the cooperative has remained bullish, until the tender was awarded, in order to speak with the person of the same contractor to start the ensuing collaboration.
It is understood that the award of separate collection, collection of bulky and ecological management of the island was awarded to Leonia SpA hearing the news from the press, this cooperative, he immediately wrote to the municipal administration for
the explanations on how to continue their work with the new subject contractor. From his contacts with the municipal manager of the sector coordinating its subsidiaries, to my surprise it was learned that the official SPA Leonia has not delivered will subcontract the service of collecting bulky activities currently managed by the cooperative and are committed to the achievement of which more than a dozen Roma children. The manager also said that the declaration not to subcontract the service by Leonia can not be exceeded throughout the period of validity of the contract. All this will produce the immediate dismissal of Roma children engaged for years to deliver the service and subsequent arrest of most immediate experience of
ROM 1995.
The cooperative also does not receive the monthly payments owed by seven months. This story is unpleasant and difficult to manage continues to repeat because of missed payments by Fata Morgana (which in turn claims the loss of revenue by the municipality of Reggio Calabria). In June, for the same reason, the cooperative has had to suspend business for two months with the understandable negative impacts. With these assumptions, it becomes very difficult to develop a route that passes for social integration through work. There are also questions about the considerable resources spent on the renovation of the property confiscated from the Mafia, now the headquarters of the cooperative, whose project is now nearing completion, involves the construction of a
recycle.
Within this structure would have had to retrieve all those bulky goods collected by the cooperative, that rather than go into the waste sector could have been expertly restored and re-used by other interested citizens. This, in addition to producing an important social fallout, would have a significant environmental outcome in terms of waste reduction.
The choice to safeguard an organization that has not making a profit and that, in the entire city, an experience at the forefront of integration, local and national bands of particularly weak, such as Roma, is was in fact, with the latter episodes, strongly denied.
Though we are aware that you are in the election campaign, particularly sensitive time, gravity of decisions requires us to address the public and the responsible authority, because he is strongly convinced that such an experience can not and must not end. It would lose the positive image of the entire city. We remain confident in the intervention of the institutions in order to give a decisive and definitive answer to the problem.
President Dr. Domenico
Modafferi