The Provincial Councilor Gaetano Rao responds to the criticisms leveled at the Province of Reggio Calabria regarding the ATC commissioner and the Restocking Plan: "We have been working for months with hunting associations".
It is regrettable that there are those who, like Mr. Spoleti, continue to prefer the press as a place in which to express their thoughts without ever, I repeat never, being able to make a minimum proactive contribution on the occasion of the various meetings held with the provincial hunting associations. which the same has attended several times. Whoever behaves in this way becomes the protagonist of an attitude, in my opinion, at least ambiguous and contradictory.
In the specific case, probably, the only obsession is to get some of his appointments in the ATC management committees, or to see satisfied some of the multiple requests for assignments that this subject promptly addresses to me whenever I happen to meet him outside the door of the President ...
Perhaps Spoleti will have been disappointed by his failure to be appointed as a consultant of the Province in the field of hunting as well as requested by him several times. And if you don't get what you want, then what do you do in these cases? Of course! The press is used, hiding the background and one's real motivations, limiting itself instead to throwing mud and discrediting the President Raffa, the Councilor for Hunting, the entire Province ...
So far the real reasons for these releases in the press. Then the reply on the merits of the free attacks aimed at President Raffa and the Province. In the month of August alone, two meetings were held, specially convened by me, with the representatives of the hunting associations with which a path of collaboration and discussion on topics of real interest to hunters was reinvigorated. I thank them, yes, for their proactive spirit and for their willingness to discuss the problems and needs connected with the imminent opening of the hunting season.
In the first meeting, held in the first days of August, I delivered to the associations the draft of an organic plan for environmental improvement and restocking of game to be implemented in the shortest possible time. It is the first time in its history that the Province of Reggio Calabria has prepared a Plan of this magnitude, and my goal is to collect the contribution and suggestions of the associations on the document, in order to make it even more appropriate to the real needs of the sector. .
As for the overcoming of the commissioner management of the Territorial Areas of Hunting, I made the commitment that, in agreement with the President Raffa, the procedures for requesting designations from the reference associations would be started. And so it will be.
I would have expected from Spoleti observations and suggestions on issues of real interest to the hunters of the Province of Reggio Calabria, rather than throwing up words in freedom that have the sole purpose of creating confusion and undermining a path of collaboration and synergy that the Province and the associations hunting instead have finally started and are experimenting with positive results.
I am the first defender of the correct use of the money that hunters pay annually for hunting. And even someone like Spoleti knows well the many savings that the area commissioner has produced, starting, for example, with the premises where the Atc Rc 1 headquarters is currently located, rooms given on free loan by the Province led by President Raffa .
Councilor Gaetano Rao