Yet another earthquake at the top of Ama. Just over three months after taking office the board of directors of the company that deals with Rome's waste has resigned.
Paradox of paradoxes: at the basis of the resignation there is the same reason that last February led the mayor Virginia Raggi to oust the old board chaired by Lorenzo Bagnacani.
The president Luisa Melara, the managing director Paolo Longoni and the operational adviser Massimo Ranieri resigned in open controversy with the Municipality on the 2017 Budget, pending approval for two years.
The object of the dispute is the now famous 18,3 million in credits for funeral and cemetery services that the new top management of Ama, like the old ones, have included in a risk fund for contractual charges linked to equity and which, according to the Municipality, completely devalued. It should be considered that any step back by one of the parties would risk ending up under scrutiny by the judicial authority and the Court of Auditors.
The clash flared up again following a fiery letter sent by the CEO of Roma Capitale, Franco Giampaoletti, to the top management of Ama in which the manager had informed the company that the budget could not be approved precisely because those 18,3 million represent an "obstructive element".
Three days ago an even tougher note came from the Campidoglio: "Roma Capitale will never approve an Ama Spa financial statement that is drafted incorrectly and contains accounting treatment assessments that have not previously been endorsed by the municipality"
“If Raggi says she was left alone, then we have been abandoned. I'm disappointed and angry, if the plan for Ama was another they could tell us right away. The problem of waste cannot be managed with ideology but concrete actions are needed”. This is the outburst of the now former councilor Massimo Ranieri. “Even today we continued to work, I just saw a Hera manager for flow management. The procedures for opening the two composting areas are also continuing. We tried to work: today I should have seen the citizens in the V Town Hall because with the president Giovanni Boccuzzi we had undertaken to start the door-to-door from Christmas, but unfortunately that's how it went. All this happens on the skin of the citizens and workers of Ama".
Melara, Longoni and Ranieri are, or perhaps it would be better to say were, the sixth group of Directors called to lead Ama in just three years and a half. Before them, the sole directors Daniele Fortini, Alessandro Solidoro, Antonella Giglio and Massimo Bagatti and the entire board led by Bagnacani had thrown in the towel (voluntarily or involuntarily).
It is the citizens who pay the price for this conflict. The city is once again prey to waste and the risk of an emergency is upon us. Yesterday, September 30, the Region extended by another 2 weeks the summer ordinance which had required regional plants to give priority to waste disposal in Rome, an emergency measure (expired yesterday) to avoid "health risks". At the same time, the institution led by Nicola Zingaretti asked the Municipality to "restore the conditions of adequate hygienic safety".
