The City Council has included in the proposed budget of Euro 1.570.000/00 income from fines and road traffic has also established how to use 50% of the proceeds, as required by applicable securities laws. In the coming days to present an amendment to the Chairman of the Budget, which will vote on February 19 in Council requesting Supreme full of balance sheet that includes the proceeds of fines. The penalties for violating the rules of the road it should not be an opportunity for municipalities to make money, let alone one can predict the total amount: fines should be done only to the extent that it requires the security of our city and our citizens. In any case even the budgeted figure is too high: on average will be higher penalties for around 4300 Euro per day and, being a purely theoretical calculation, every citizen will be the Scandicci penalized for an average of 30 Euro per person, sharing the overall figure for the 50,000 inhabitants, and also calculating infants and people do not chartered. The use of proceeds is forced to the principles of state law: The law requires municipalities to allocate at least 50% of the proceeds from fines for "studies, research, and propaganda for the purpose of road safety, improve traffic on roads, the preparation of urban plans vehicular traffic, upgrading and improvement of road signs and the preparation of plans in art. 36, the provision of technical resources required for police services and road and the implementation of measures to promote mobility and cycling, to not less than 10% of that share, for road safety interventions in particular to protect users vulnerable: children, elderly, disabled, pedestrians and cyclists. "The council has already established itself as investing 50% of the proceeds of fines that are still to be done: Well, the heaviest item, € 615,550 will be used to pay interest on bank loans previously entered into by the administration to work on the roads. So, not a new intervention for the development insecurity of the roads in 2009, but before the payment of debts. Other items planned new fixed-term contracts, assistance with radio links, maintenance on the cars of the municipal police. Interventions directly designed for the safety of road remains well short of 1.5 million in fines paid by the citizens: 11,500 euros for road signs, 54,300 € for pedestrian crossings.
With our plan to launch two proposed amendment, but also a new conception of fines: No more predictions in the budgets, to make only the necessary fines to road safety, not only allocate 50% but the total proceeds from fines for direct intervention and really related to road maintenance and constant public information about the destination of the proceeds.
With our plan to launch two proposed amendment, but also a new conception of fines: No more predictions in the budgets, to make only the necessary fines to road safety, not only allocate 50% but the total proceeds from fines for direct intervention and really related to road maintenance and constant public information about the destination of the proceeds.
John Bellosi
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