THE LOCAL COMMUNITY



In Italy the municipalities are traditionally very different entity. One of the most important difference is the municipality distinction between metropolitan city and small towns. The municipalities have a presidential type of government: either (the) mayor or (the) local council are elected directly from electoral body, while (the) councillors are named by the mayor. The bodies of the municipalities are: (the) municipal council which is formed by a variable number of councilmen and lasts for 5 years. It is the body of address and political-administrative control; (the) mayor is elected directly from the citizens and lasts for 5 years. He represents the body responsible for the local administration; (the) municipal committee is formed by (the) mayor and by a variable number of (the) councillors, everyone of them must take care, on delegation of (the) mayor, of a particular administration branch; (the) local area councils currently all the municipalities with more than 100.000 inhabitants must subdivide their territory in local area and set up in every a local area council. Such councils are elected by direct suffrage from the inhabitants of the same local area. The functions are established independently from every municipality in a chart called: they can consist in the decentralized distribution of particular services, in the formulation of proposals or opinions . The municipalities are the holder of own functions and carry out functions delegated from state and functions attributed and delegated from departments, in base of several fields, in particular: in the field of the social services they have tasks of social and school welfare; in the field of economic development they carry out tasks that regard the commerce, the markets and the fairs; in the field of the order and organisation of the territory they arrange the development plans, they grant the building concessions and carry out services of public usefulness, for example the public urban transports. The most important functions delegated from the state are: the records of births, civil status (birth, death, marriages) and the electoral lists; the celebrations of the civil weddings, the running of public order. Examples of services offered by municipality for young people: URP (The office relations with the public) , supply information on seats, timetables and procedure of working of the municipal offices and services; institutional initiatives, cultural, artistic and sporting events. Moreover it collects the demands and the suggestions and the signalling of whichever type of the citizens; (the) council of voluntary service, it promotes new voluntary service initiatives and it strengthens those existing, it favours the planning, the start, the realisation and the strengthening of the voluntary service activities also through interventions of service, advising and information, it develops relationships with local and national institutions, it organizes course of formation for volunteers; (the)centre extra community services, it is a service turned to the extra communitarian citizens, it supplies information of first level on house, job, school, course of professional formation, the rule in f orce on permit of sta y, rights, etc.; (the) young consulting room, it is a service of the ASL (Health National Service) turned to young people with less than 21 years. It is a public space where you can be informed and deepen, with some experts (psychologist, gynaecologist, obstetrician) matters like: the relations with friends, parents, the own girlfriends/boyfriends, affectivities and sexualities, contraceptive methods, self-knowledge, prevention of the disease sexually transmitted. You can go alone or together and don't need any appointment; (the) young centre, is a structure opened to all: the young people can use it organized in groups or single, students, students body, teachers, educators, experts, adults, voluntary service groups… Through the development of defined plans with the interested in young people, the centre promotes initiatives and activities tied to the various fields of interventions: arts, computer science, communications, music, sciences, school, job... Periodically the young centre organizes concerts, r eviews, shows, encounter turns to develop the communication and the participation inside the juvenile world, the citizenship and the institutions. Moreover they provide courses, stages, seminaries, laboratories, activities of search are kept; (the) library, people individualize a book consulting catalogues for authors/titles and subjects. In order to take advantage of the loan, the ticket of free registration is necessary, that it is granted residence in city filling in a form and showing an identity document. We show now the graphic representation of a relevant date through the questionnaire suggested among our school youngster.

MUNICIPALITIES No. RESIDENTS
  
MONZA 36
NOVA 12
OTHERS 25
  
TOTAL 73



THE MOST USED SERVICES




DEGREE OF SATISFACTION OF SERVICES

From the diagram we can conclude that the mainly services use in the municipalities taken in consideration, are the city library and the urban transports. An important percentage occupies also the use of the sporting centre. A justification of the results of these notice can derive from the subjective level of efficiency and the degree of satisfaction that is shaped to a medium level. The guys find the services enough efficient, but with a wide margin of improvement. The most interesting innovative ideas regarding the possible services for the young people have been: the possibility to hire bikes and scooters, the building of an underground that connects directly Monza to Milan, the creation of a municipal swimming pool and greater sporting centres in Nova, while between the other municipalities it has prevailed the idea of setting us an amusement and music centre. In the questionnaire our attention has been based also on the relationship between the young people and the elections with the purpose to put in prominence their participation, the knowledge of the electoral system and the possible difficulty of understanding it. It has been able to state that the participation to the municipal elections is not much elevated owing to, in the greater part of the cases, the insufficient interest and the presence of under-age guys. At the same time, the knowledge of the in force electoral system in their own municipality is proportional to the participation to the elections, a nd however is little elevated owing to the difficulty of understanding finds from the guys due to the insufficient knowledge, the little clearness and the insufficient interest in this field. However there is a high percentage of knowledge of the mayor of the it own town.



PARTECIPETION TO ELECTIONS






KNOWLEDGE OF THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM



It has been able to state that the participation to the municipal elections is not much elevated owing to, in the greater part of the cases, the insufficient interest and the presence of under-age guys. At the same time, the knowledge of the in force electoral system in their own municipality is proportional to the participation to the elections, and however is little elevated owing to the difficulty of understanding finds from the guys due to the insufficient knowledge, the little clearness and the insufficient interest in this field. However there is a high percentage of knowledge of the mayor of the it own town.

WRITTEN BY

Colucci Claudia
Ferrario Alessia
Ledonne Valentina
Macchi Elisa
Mantecca Michela