Siena, Valentini (Pd): “Security, the Franchi stadium risks becoming unavailable soon”
The safety works of the Artemio Franchi stadium are the topic at the center of the question that the municipal councilor of the Pd Bruno Valentini presented to the mayor.
The static consolidation and seismic upgrading works of the covered grandstand and the uncovered bleachers are at a standstill because the professionals in charge of carrying out the seismic analyzes have not been paid and cannot deliver the report to the Civil Engineers. as explained during an interview with Radio Siena TV, one of the technicians involved, the geologist in charge Castellani.
βThe tender with which the municipal administration has entrusted the management of the stadium to the Siena Noah football club for ten years also contemplates the safety measures and this fulfillment has passed to the new ownership β observes Valentini in his introduction -. Without the static consolidation and seismic upgrading works of the open steps and the covered grandstand – he writes again -, for the achievement of the safety levels defined in the project itself by the municipal offices, the stadium risks becoming unavailable in the short term because it lacks the certificate of static and seismic suitability and the Municipality has already granted an extension, which has moved the conclusion of the works to the end of August.
Valentini adds that “the councilor for sport and sports building Paolo Benini was sure that “at the end of the intervention the structure will be redeveloped and functional as foreseen by the assignment” and that, in the light of the current state “it appears even more justified the request that I made at the time to prepare what is needed for the Municipality to replace a defaulting subject to prevent the unusability of the Franchi Stadium, which is now looming”.
Given all this, Valentini asks Mayor De Mossi: “because the evidence was deliberately denied that the commitment to make the Stadium safe was unbearable for any property, unless it had the guarantee of a restructuring for commercial purposes, a hypothesis which however is totally firm despite the proclamations of a few months ago; because an extension was granted which only slowed down the clarification of the property’s inertia in relation to the safety works, consequently unloading the problem on the next Municipal Administration; because the solution of direct intervention by the Municipality was resolutely rejected, which is in fact the only possibility for not closing the Stadium within this year, unless a derogation is granted as has already been done with the Mens Sana arena ; if he hasn’t regretted not having entrusted Siena Calcio to more authoritative subjects in the sports and football field, preferring more business-oriented but high-risk proposals”.