2024-07-27 06:08:23
BOLZANO. The time it takes for public bodies to provide contributions to associations is too long. A problem that comes to light especially with the extracurricular activities of small organizations that give a hand to families during the summer.
“If the balance payments are delayed for more than a year and a half, as is the case in some cases, it is no longer possible to make serious plans for future financial years. Personnel costs and obligations to suppliers play a major role,” he warns. Ulrich Seitzdirector of the Volunteer Service Center, «More attention is needed on both sides, public administration and associations, to avoid unpleasant surprises at the end». Because even the lack of approval of a project can put an association in difficulty. Seitz gives some examples: «Neighborhood or village activities, or short-term ones, are important for families who don’t know where to put their children in the summer».
In essence, there are associations still waiting for a contribution for projects carried out a couple of years ago and that in the planning for the current year or for next year have included expenses for which the contributions will not arrive. But they still do not know (or have just discovered) that those same items included in the planning of two years ago will not receive the coverage on which they were counting. So, Seitz returned in recent days to the fixed table with the Civic Defense. And with the defender Veronika Meyer he spoke clearly about the problems of associations with public contributions from various provincial departments.
He reports “unpleasant episodes due to the lack of communication and explanations on the reasons for the reductions or rejection of some applications”, and again “episodes linked to the need to integrate the documentation with documents that initially did not seem necessary, for example a satisfaction questionnaire on the summer activity filled out by the parents of the participants”. Seitz told the councilor Rosmarie Shows Off: «We must be very clear about the documentation, because otherwise it becomes a challenge for the associations to recover what is missing».
If someone then appeals, you end up in front of the TAR. With a waste of time, money and energy. According to those in the know, the possibility of co-design provided for by the Third Sector Code has brought an improvement. However, the issue of the fiscal components of the associations registered with Runts and how it is possible to reduce the fears and uncertainties towards the structures that do not opt for the Third Sector remains. “It is precisely from here that the Civic Defense Office and the CSV would like to start with targeted information campaigns in the municipalities”. Finally, with regard to digitalization, the CSV has developed training and professional development packages, with an assistance service “that provides answers – according to Seitz – to the questions of the associations and that facilitates their daily work”. S.M.
2024-07-27 06:08:23