From 30/6/2024, the responsibilities of the school committees will be transferred to the relevant municipalities, according to the bill of the Ministry of the Interior which will be introduced tomorrow for a vote in the Plenary session. The transfer of the work of the school committees to the relevant municipalities will proceed in order to improve the management of the school units at a central level. Also, a fixed advance is recommended with the administrator of the director of each school unit to support its operation. It is also foreseen that municipal public benefit enterprises will be dissolved on 12/31/2023, the last day of the current municipal period, which are transferred to the municipalities. The municipal council may set up committees for the optimal management of the issues of legal entities that are abolished. The committees will also include non-elected members.

School board money at stake

Especially for the school committees, whose work is also transferred to the municipalities, the deputy minister of the interior clarified that the expenses for oil, for repairs and maintenance will henceforth be foreseen in the Unified Municipal Budget. Also noteworthy is the cutting edge formulated by Thodoris Livanios regarding the phenomena of opacity. “Can the Municipality hold a tender for repairs and maintenance. Can the municipality hold a tender for the lease of a canteen. The Municipality, however, not the school board. Read publications on the internet, which have occasionally appeared about family relationships, of those who win canteen competitions, with members of school committees, with assignments between them, etc.. At one point it was heard that even in betting, in gambling, they had school board money was played,” said the deputy minister of the interior.

The bill also provides for the abolition of NPDD of the municipalities and the transfer of their responsibilities to them. All kinds of staff employed by them will be transferred together.