In the hodgepodge of rules that make up the Stability law that has just been examined by the Senate, there is a mysterious article (37) which provides the commissioner of the National School of Administration with the aim of achieving a 10% savings on the contributions paid by the State to the School itself. The rule, almost announced by a strange article that appeared on 11 October in "La Repubblica", full of insinuations and real errors, does not seem to have a precise paternity and above all appears to lack an effective connection with the objectives declares that it intends to pursue.
The true story of the School, currently chaired by Professor Giovanni Tria, demonstrates that a complete reorganization of the institution has been carried out in the last year merging, as required by law 114/2014, all the specialist schools existing in various administrations, closing various peripheral offices and reducing the administrative and teaching staff. In this way it was achieved a saving of 12 million euros, just under 50% of the resources allocated from the state budget. These resources amount to 14,3 million and not at 21 million as stated by "La Repubblica", since there is other income from the market for over 8 million.
Above all, it must be clarified that this money is not only for train young PA executives, whose recruitment takes place through a competition announced by the Ministry and which have been in constant decline in recent years to be reduced to only 26 positions in the last course of 2012. Now the recruitment activity has been suspended as recruitment in the PA is practically blocked.
In reality, most of the School's commitment is aimed atprofessional updating of those who already work in the administration, so much so that for the current year they will be disbursed well 21 hours of training involving over 9.750 students to which must be added another 800 participants in the study days on specific topics. Even the relationship with the French Ena is not unfavorable to our school if we consider that the per capita cost for the students of the recruitment course is 83 euros for the French against 58 euros for the Italians.
Having clarified the numbers, it is necessary to explain how it was born last year's law and what goals it set itself. Over time, various ministries had set up their own training school, often run casually (such as that of the Ministry of the Economy), so it was most appropriate to impose a rationalization which, as has been said, has led to gigantic savings.
The problem of . remains to be clarified teachers' salaries. Since in most cases they are people working in the PA, their salary is equal to that of the administration of origin, which therefore saves the salary of those who are wholly or partially seconded to the school. The only exception is that of teachers from the Mef school, who are tenured, i.e. they are state employees to all intents and purposes and therefore continue to enjoy the economic benefits provided for in their contracts. An exceptional case which the law should remedy, without setting salary caps the same for everyone (which would hamper the proper functioning of the school), but by tackling these privileged people head-on, and challenging the legitimacy of their passage into the roles of the State.
Overall most of the reorganization work has been done. The reduction in personnel was also enormous, going from 440 to 147 units. After saving 12 million, saving another 1 and a half doesn't seem such a big problem to require the institution to be placed in receivership. Maybe someone wants to get their hands on the school. But then let a normal rotation of the top take place (but one should motivate) without making the current one suffer the shame of the arrival of a commissioner who could make one think of a punishment for the choices made or, worse, of bad administration.
