Opening Session Dr. Marcello
Figuccio
President of the International Center of Studies Luigi Sturzo Asti
introducing this conference I would like to thank the present and, above all, the speakers of the International Centre Sturzo Studies (CISS), their contribution will be very valuable to understand the vision and foresight to Don Luigi Sturzo about local autonomy.
thank, then, Dr.. John Palladino, national president of the CISS; Professor Valeria Marcucci Journalist and author of historical essays, among other things, author of "Luigi Sturzo - Life and struggles for freedom of the Italian People's Party", the prof. Chiaramonte, who is also the author of several studies on the figure of Sturzo, including "The municipal Luigi Sturzo - Pro-mayor of Caltagirone (1899-1920)", and finally like to point out the welcome presence of Monsignor Francesco Maria Tasca that will clarify once and for all the deep of the Christian message of secularism Sturzo.
could not miss this conference in the presence of the National Association of Italian Municipalities (ANCI), represented by Dr. Andrea Flutter, ANCI vice president of the Piedmont Region and Mayor of Chivasso, his experience as an administrator of a municipality of the province of Turin is the most significant in understanding the merits and the shadows that are found in the administrative management of a local authority.
And last but not least, I would like to thank in particular Dr. George Musso, vice president of the province of Asti, in addition to bring the greetings of President Robert Marble, will be very valuable for its business administrator with passion and skill, first as mayor of a small town, and then as Castelnuovo Don Bosco President of Hill Community "High Asti."
Before beginning my remarks, I want to read the message you sent me the Deorsola Councillor, Councillor Federalism, decentralization and local relationships with the Piedmont Region:
" regret not being able to attend the conference of local and Luigi Sturzo ANCI, because institutional commitments previously made.
The theme that will present the conference is important and also the regional government, in particular the powers that the president has assigned me Bresso, are aimed at the renewal of public administration, to make it more agile and transparent and improve relationships with local for effective implementation of decentralization.
I wish a good job to the speakers and I extend my best regards. Sergio Deorsola .
I also wish to read what you send to us by the regional Bruna Sibille Area Development the mountains and forests, public works, soil conservation:
" Dear President, I regret I can not attend the meeting of the local governments and Luigi Sturzo ANCI Unfortunately, institutional commitments previously entered into, allow me to be present .
have local administrator for many years and the theme that you treat me is very dear.
E 'on the ground, in fact, that often operate human energies best for the very valuable work by a community that is a synthesis of values \u200b\u200band needs and interests. Do 'about your effort to remember the figure so central to the Italian republic, at a particularly important reports of the institutions of this country. We are, today, before the defeat of the republic, the reduction of different cultural and ideological approaches to public life only for a part.
This, as far removed from the season in which Don Sturzo ventured, sometimes hard, but always with that composure which stemmed from the awareness of what an experienced expropriated land for 20 years after its democratic practice. Excuse me again for the absence, and I wish you good work. Sincerely .
open the session of this meeting with some brief remarks.
Gabriele De Rosa said as reported by Sturzo: "... do not understand nothing those who underestimate my experience of municipal activities ".
In fact, Don Sturzo municipal experience has played a key role in his life and on the other hand it is good to emphasize the great contribution of thought and action that has given us this great man and a priest in the hip by Catalino 1904 to 1924, after all, just read some of the 'Appeal of the free and strong ", which refers to local governments, it said:" The state is coordinating and tended to limit the power of bodies on any civil activity and individual. We want, on constitutional grounds, replace a state that recognizes purely temporal the limits of his activity, respecting the nuclei and the natural organisms that respects individual responsibility and encourage private initiatives .
This is one of the founding concepts of Sturzo.
same Sturzo Appeals for the January 1919 shooting underlined the "... freedom and autonomy of local government, recognition of the proper functions of the municipality, province and region, in relation to the traditions of the nation and the development needs of local life , reform of the bureaucracy, the high administrative centralization, also obtained through the cooperation of industry bodies, agricultural and commercial capital and labor ".
One of the things that impressed me Sturzo, will speak of this, of course, our speakers, was the great importance and attention he gave to the budget debate.
In fact, Sturzo debate on the issue of financial maintained a basic principle that the budget and forecast are now more effective and results of administrative planning of the town seeking to make efficient use of public resources, effective and productive, however the budget is forecasting that a report, the town of Caltagirone, which Sturzo was mayor: "... left the room of elders to arrive in the city, the streets and homes of local associations .
About the discussion of this very important note I would like to bring a few lines of Chia in his book "The Municipality of Luigi Sturzo" in them states that the budget represents " The test of all the authorities ... The discussion of budget is one of the most significant and concrete steps to analyze the capacity planning and management of any administration ... " is worth noting in Caltagirone as the budget" ... became an appointment of comparison not only within the Board common, but also with the population for which, either through the newspapers, both with the publication of the figures detailed in the brochure, the budget was presented and explained "
E 'no doubt that this topic should be further deepened and our speakers that I follow will have the opportunity to do so more effectively because of their experience and study on the administrative management of a municipality and any other local authority.
