the process for the institution is underway
[fonte agenzia DIRE] – Soon the establishment in Rome of the city council of greenery and the respective municipal councils could become a reality. In fact, the discussion on the application of the new green regulation in the part that concerns the implementation of the Council officially began with a joint meeting of the Capitoline Environment and Roma Capitale commissions. Provided by the regulation last year, it is an approved second-level participation tool – through associations and professional orders – which will have the task of verifying the application and functioning of the regulation itself, allowing citizens to participate in the implementation of changes and projects regarding the green and to favor the knowledge by the Romans of everything that happens within the municipal administration, always with regard to urban green.
The draft resolution presented by the associations was illustrated by Giorgio Osti, a member of the coordination of the organizations involved in drafting the regulation. “We are talking about one that is statically discussed. Having a green council for citizens is essential in order to have an institutional tool to interface with the administration”, explained Osti. Underlining that “the scheme is taken from that of the Disability Consultancy with some modifications to adapt it to the specific functions that the Green Consultancy should assume and avoid that it can lead to a failure to operate. We have thus created a tool that in one fell swoop provides for the creation of a consultation both in the city and municipal areas. After the approval of the resolution, everything will pass to the verifications and observations of the Municipalities, as already happened with the green regulation “. The city council, Osti specified, “will be made up of 40 people: it seems a fairly high number but all the councils of the municipalities, the offices, the four main professional orders and associations must be represented. In the municipalities, instead, 20 people are expected, not only and associations but also individual citizens, orders as a formula of maximum openness to the presence and participation of people “.
“Today’s”, commented the environmental councilor of Roma Capitale, Sabrina Alfonsi, “is an important commission with a view to the participation of citizens, not only consultative but also effective, as we are already doing with the Regulation of assets municipalities, collaboration agreements, the guarantor of animal rights: a set of tools that will really and immediately allow citizens to govern together with us in a principle of subsidiarity and exchange “. The Consulta del verde, added Alfonsi, “is the result of the great work of the committees, which I thank: I did not submit any observations because when I read this Regulation there was immediately a work that has its own logic and complexity, in addition to compliance with the instrument will give us an important work systematic “.
As underlined by the president of the Capitoline Environment Commission, Giammarco Palmieri, “for us the establishment of the Council is not only a possibility provided for by the Green Regulations, but a real necessity. understand if it would no longer be useful to be less assertive composition on the composition but a little more open to ensure a more widespread participation, remembering that the city council, in fact, is a second representative body because the representatives of the municipalities and 17 associations, a list that can be updated year by year “.
The process for the establishment of the councils is now about to start indicate: “We will use this as a starting point to start a more structured path that will allow the presentation of amendments, supplementary and modifying proposals and then make a commission step for the expression , after which we will send it to the offices, to the Municipalities and finally to the Capitoline Assembly for approval “. In the next few days, Palmieri concluded, “I will file a resolution starting from this base which will be modified by the Chamber and the citizens in the next few days, then I will convene a session of ad hoc committee proposals in the weeks’ proposals”.