"Urgent measures to contain energy consumption, essential to safeguard the provision of services to citizens".
This is the title at the bottom of the ordinance of the mayor of Bari Sardo Ivan Mameli to source the expensive energy . In fact , spending on municipal bills has almost tripled in the town on the Ogliastra coast compared to the average of recent years: 275 thousand euros against 100 thousand in previous years.
The Municipality, therefore, has decided to run for cover.
In detail, the Mameli provision provides for a reduction in the luminous flux of public lighting by 30% of the light points, i.e. every 3 poles one will remain off. The evening switch-on of the same system will be delayed by 30 minutes and the morning switch-off will be brought forward by 90 minutes.
Again: the lights will be turned off starting at 9.30 pm in the municipal garden and in Piazza Don Luigi del Giudice and the lighting will be reduced in the cycle path and near the San Leonardo Church.
Containment measures have also been arranged in municipal offices, schools, libraries, meeting centers and gyms: the air conditioning system can only be turned on on the hottest days and the minimum room temperature must not be below 25 degrees.
Always in the same provision, instructions are given to employees for a prudent use of the lights in the offices and common areas.
The mayor also reserves the right to postpone the measures to be used in the winter period for space heating to another ordinance.
"This is a first urgent and non-postponable measure that I was forced to adopt to try to safeguard the budget balance and, in turn, the services that the Municipality provides to citizens, subject to adopting additional ones based on the variation in prices market ", explains Mameli. Adding:" I explained the measures to my citizens through a letter that I published on social networks ".
(Unioneonline / lf)