Querelle Comune-Franci, Concerned Siena presents a question to the Council
“Renouncing statization, for the Higher Institute of Musical Studies Franci means losing almost 2.5 million a year of state funds, which it already records in the budget, pending the formalization of the transition to the state”. Thus a note from the council group of Per Siena regarding the dispute between the Conservatory and the Sienese municipal administration.
“The For Siena movement – it is stated – looks with concern at what is happening, after Paolo Benini communicated the following“ The availability of all kinds of the Municipality is over. We will not give any of the guarantees necessary for the statization process ”. The statement is incredible in itself: a public body that wants to penalize, risking to maintain, a prestigious cultural institution that directly supports, has never been seen. But what is even more serious is that the De Mossi administration denies itself: in his electoral program, the current mayor promised to “enhance and statise Franci”. Voters who voted to grow the music school have so far been mocked. Really, there are no words to tell a story that started the decision of the Municipality to remove premises from the Musical Institute, then revoked by the TAR of Tuscany. There is a will to destroy that has no justification: retaliations that place political needs before the risk of damaging the city’s culture and economy, of cutting jobs are not acceptable. Yet, Franci has always avoided conflicts. As proof, the announcement in the press that “the dialogue between the institute and the Municipality of Siena continues. The ruling of the Tar does not represent a closure by the Institute towards the Municipality, but the result of an act of due protection of the rights and interests of the Conservatory ”.
For Siena he is following the story closely, on which he has submitted a question to the City Council.
“It worries – again the council group – above all, that a resolution of the Municipality of Siena has been suspended by the TAR and that, at the same time, it is not difficult to understand what the real position of the municipal administration is. The revocation resolution referred to the need for spaces for the students of the Liceo Classico and Musicale Enea Silvio Piccolomini, which later proved impractical. If we add the position of the Councilor Benini., It is essential that the Municipality expresses a clear position on the statization of the Institute. It would also be interesting to understand how the mayor De Mossi intends to overcome this institutional insured with Franci, which is not good for our city and its culture ”.