SNALC reports disservices to customers
(Jamma) In a press release, Sebastiano Costalonga and Raffaele Speranzon of the "Brothers of Italy" group of the Venice municipality harshly criticize the choice of the Venice municipality to entrust the management of the casino to third parties. “We will continue – they declare – to be against this solution aimed only at repairing/covering up all the strategic mistakes made so far, perhaps covering some specific responsibilities. And – they continue – we will continue to forcefully point out the possible error to Ministers Alfano and Cancellieri”.
“In the hot mid-August – reads the note – in Venice the junta is working and the Casino issue is the topic of the moment. The receipts of the Municipal Casino have plummeted in recent years and the Municipality (which is the owner) no longer receives them as in the past, with consequent budget cuts. With this premise we arrive at the session of 12 August, with the approval of the proposed resolution 2013/564 "Awarding of the concession to third parties of the management service of the Venice gaming house and simultaneous sale of the company Casinò di Venezia gioco Spa, wholly owned of the company Cmv Spa”. The sale of the "Casino Spa" will have to arrive soon (Monday 9 September) in the city council. The approximately 600 employees, after a year of back and forth, and with long strikes behind them which have already caused millions of euros in lost revenues, will see the "end" within the year. The end of a company that hasn't been able to keep up with the times, unable to make difficult but necessary choices. Unfortunately it can only be noted that all this is a story of bad management that comes from afar and nobody – absolutely nobody – makes us look good, the loser is the whole city. In the period of the "fat cows" the Municipality of Venice collected, with the agreement between the parties, over 100 million a year but over the years, in 2012, the figure had dropped to 20 million. Everything else took a back seat: patronage management, nepotism, inefficiency, excessive personnel costs (at all levels). Everyone had their chance and, thus, they got by. Meanwhile, around the Casino and in the city, the world of gaming was changing, but the management (appointed by politicians) did not notice it. Attempts at new developments did not see the light and Venice continued to be no longer competitive, also losing the spirit conceived as a vital part of a hospitality, entertainment and cultural project which saw the birth of the Casino on the Venice Lido in the XNUMXs. Beyond the border, the Casinos updated their offer by proposing holiday/weekend packages with welcoming hotels at reasonable prices, wellness centres, shows, suitable restaurants and so on: in short, they tried to make the stay of visitors pleasant, focusing on a more modern concept of overall entertainment, not based solely on gaming. No one seems capable of proposing a serious industrial plan that is appropriate to the times and, if one has to look for faults, the successive management(s) and the persecuted will of an unshakable path indicated by Mayor Orsoni cannot be avoided. Vittorio Ravà, managing director of the Venice Casino, the entire board of directors including the auditors, despite receiving "paperoni" salaries, were unable to understand the company's economic performance and continued to bury a precious resource of the whole city. Who is right then? What will happen tomorrow? Who knows… What is certain is that there is a hurry: a hurry to be able to cash in and guarantee certain income for the Municipality by entrusting/selling the management of a company which has so far been conducted in a questionable manner, unable to make it work at its best. Someone, the mysterious Russian company and the North American hotel chain, are ready to pay the consideration envisaged for the operation and perhaps they will temporarily solve the budgetary problems of the municipal administration but leaving a city increasingly poor in real estate and economic assets and with a hand free, perhaps, to act towards management and staff. For our part, as the “Fratelli d'Italia” group, we will continue to be against this solution aimed only at repairing/covering up all the strategic mistakes made so far, perhaps covering some specific responsibilities.
