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The University is selling its property at the University of Palermo

L 'University of Palermo beats cash. He needs to come back from deficits of 31 million and then sells some of its properties with the objective of recovering 10 million €.

So, will be sold to the highest bidder, the former headquarters of the Faculty of Education Via Pascoli, still being evaluated, the San Ciro on the road to Monreale, where the starting price will be € 2 million and a half, four businesses and three apartments, all by way of Monte Pellegrino, whose total value is estimated around a million and a 100,000 euro: these were the first assets that the University of Palermo will auction in December.

will then be sold fifteen other apartments that have yet to be estimated and for which procedures must be completed at the Land Registry. In four and twenty buildings, which - with the exception of Via Pascoli and to all of San Ciro - are at the disposal of the University as a result of bequests.

The university expects to derive from their selling about 10 million euro, a move that is part of the repayment plan that the rector Roberto Lagalla presented together with Price Waterhouse Coopers, the company called to certify the past budgets.

"In order to contain costs and increase revenues - says Lagalla - by December will be left all the buildings that the university has now leased and will be launched auctioning of goods not needed for institutional. "

Employees of the University occupying rented buildings will be redeployed in the poles of Avenue of Science, Steri, but especially the former Hotel de France in Piazza Marina, where two floors were used as offices and quarters for teachers in two other off-site.

Parallel to the repayment plan, the reorganization of the administrative machine has just been approved by the Board of Directors, with the new model sees seven areas of management which is flanked, on the recommendation of Administrative Director Anthony Valenti, a service area that aggregates the three highly computerized facilities, namely the University Computing Centre (CUC) University's library service and the secretariats of the students, who will work together to process and not practical.

Disseminated data on registrations for the current year, a total of 10,560 new subscribers, a thousand more than last year compared with a reduction of degree of 22 per cent. Announced, too, from November 9, the opening night of libraries and the extension of opening hours of teaching to the Pole 19.

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