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Councilor Lipparini: "With the signing of the Collaboration Pact we complete the path started with the Participatory Budget, making citizens truly protagonists of change".

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Milan, 28 April 2021 – After the inauguration last September and the first activities open to schools and families, the time has come for the former swimming pools of the Trotter Park, which have become a modern and functional play area, to sign the Collaboration Pact between the Municipality and the school Via Giacosa and neighborhood association.

This morning the councilor for Participation, Active Citizenship and Open Data, Lorenzo Lipparini, the Principal of the “Via Giacosa” state comprehensive institute, Francesco Muraro, the Associations signed the agreement which will ensure constant maintenance, cleaning, custody, opening and closing and a program of activities, on a weekly basis, which will involve the pupils of the school and other children and young people in the neighborhood in sports and civic education activities.

The councilor for school construction, Paolo Limonta, teacher of the Giacosa primary school, was also present at the signing, together with the boys and girls of his class.
The following have signed the Pact: The “Via Giacosa” state comprehensive school, ASD Bimbe nel balloon, ASD San ​​Gabriele basketball (called Sanga's tiger mondo), ASD Ciesse freebasket, Tempo per l'infanzia social cooperative, Comin social cooperative, Circolo Legambiente Reteambiente Milan and the city of the Sun - Friends of the Trotter Park OdV.

"Last September, once the works were completed – declared the councilor for Participation, Lorenzo Lipparini – we opened this new and beautiful play area to the citizens, to make it immediately available to the school and the neighbourhood. In the meantime, with the proponents of the project of redevelopment and transformation of the former swimming pools into playing fields, we discussed and developed a shared plan for the use and maintenance of the area, the subject of the Collaboration Agreement, which we signed today. With the signing of the collaboration agreement, yes completes a process started with the participatory budget of the Municipality of Milan which saw the citizens discuss, propose and vote on the redevelopment of the former swimming pools of the Trotter Park, which from today they will be able to take care of by animating them with initiatives and events for the entire neighborhood of now established participation tools that the Administration has made available to all citizens to make them protagonists of the renewal and life of the neighborhoods and which has already allowed us to stipulate over 60 collaboration agreements throughout the city".

The signatories of the Pact undertake to organize and carry out their respective activities in total autonomy, fully assuming the costs and responsibilities that they entail, as well as taking care of the documentation in analogue or digital forms.

For each shared activity, the signatories of the agreement will guarantee compliance with the rules for the containment of Covid-19: obligation to wear a mask during indoor activities and in open areas; maintain safety distances (at least 1 meter between people); use of the sanitizing gel before entering the spaces.

The entry and exit flows, indicated by appropriate signs, must be separated and gatherings must not be created. The sanitation of the premises will be carried out at each change of event and activity involving different groups.

The sports activities will take place with reference to the CONI protocols and the respective sports federations (especially with regard to the prevention of Covid-19). They will take place from Monday to Saturday, will begin at 16.30 and will be divided according to a schedule agreed upon by Sanga basket, Comin, Bimbe nel palla, Tempo per l'Infanzia and Ciesse free basket.
Together with sport, cleaning activities (removal of tags and writings) organized by Legambiente will be planned.

The new play area, completed last September, covers an area of ​​1.800 square meters given back to the boys and girls of the school and the neighborhood and to the city thanks to the functional recovery intervention proposed by the citizens in the first edition of the Participatory Budget of the Municipality of Milan.

Funded with approximately 420 euros, the project made it possible to redevelop the area and build two new multifunctional sports fields measuring 25 x 16 metres, where you can play volleyball, basketball, soccer and organize outdoor shows.

As part of the works, interventions were carried out for the cleaning of uncultivated vegetation, the installation of ramps for the access of people with disabilities, the removal of the flooring from the edge of the pool and from the curbs. A new porphyry floor was installed, the decorative concrete columns and pillars were restored. Finally, the plaster and the tracing of a new sewer line were redone.