FRANCESCO CIRO RAMPULLA

Il ruolo del segretario comunale tra legislazione e managerialità

N. 193

Summary - The difficult question of the insertion of Local and Provincial Secretaries (Segretari Comunali e Provinciali) into their role in the Ministry of the Interior was resolved by law 127/1997. In organic terms, they are part of the appropriate Autonomous Agency, and in functional terms they depend on the Head of Administration, who makes a choice from among those on the Register which remains valid for the duration of the mandate. But the new legislation has radically altered the functions of the Secretaries. On the one hand, they fill the role of juridical-administrative consultants for the relevant body, and on the other hand they bear managerial responsibility for the administrative functions, assigned to directors - although this last set of functions is only a possible one, since it ceases in the case of the nomination of the Director General. In the present situation, the Secretaries are in a disadvantaged position, since, while they have a strong training as jurists, they have a much less solid background in management. The author therefore foresees a difficult training task ahead of the Agency, even though a long term solution might be provided by the recent institution in some Political Science Faculties of a degree in Government and Administration.