The City of Avellino says it wants to save Avellino Città Servizi, the municipally owned service company now in liquidation, without repeating the problems of recent years. The stated goal is to revoke the liquidation, preserve jobs, and put the company on an economically sustainable footing.

The administration links the current liquidation to the failure to approve earlier financial statements and the resulting erosion of company assets. It says the 2023, 2024 and 2025 statements have now been approved.

Revocation is not presented as complete. According to the reported municipal position, the city must still support the decision with a credible industrial plan and demonstrate that keeping the services in-house is economically advantageous compared with the market.

Why ACS entered liquidation

Avellino Città Servizi is described in local reporting as a municipal participated company currently in liquidation.

The administration attributes the situation to unapproved prior budgets and the consequent loss of net assets. No independent assessment of the company accounts or the economic-convenience case was available in the research materials; the account so far rests on municipal communications reported by the local press.

The proposed way out

The city's stated intention is to revoke the liquidation in order to safeguard both the company and its employees.

That step depends on two conditions cited by the administration:

  • a sustainable industrial plan for ACS;
  • proof that the services entrusted to ACS cost less than equivalent market alternatives.

Discussions with trade unions are expected to continue in a technical working group. The proposal reported so far is not described as a final agreement.

The 22 workers at the center of the plan

ACS has 22 employees, reported as employed under a Confcommercio contract and used mainly for custody and traffic-assistant duties.

The proposal discussed publicly divides the workforce into two groups:

  • Ten workers close to pension eligibility would be accompanied toward retirement through a voluntary-exit incentive, supplemented unemployment benefit, and a municipal contribution.
  • The other twelve workers would move to a contract consistent with their duties, with any pay difference covered by a superminimum or another wage mechanism.

The figures on staffing, retirements and wage guarantees come from municipal and press accounts cited in the research and have not been verified against primary administrative documents.

What still has to happen

Readers should treat the rescue as a stated direction, not a completed decision. The liquidation has not been reported as revoked, and no final industrial plan has been made available.

The next steps indicated are continuation of the union dialogue, definition of the retirement-support package, clarification of future contracts and pay protections, and formal action on revocation backed by the required economic justification.

What to watch

The declared objective is to avoid definitive liquidation, protect employment, and build a financially viable company. Whether that is possible will depend on the industrial plan, the market comparison, and the outcome of the technical talks with unions.

For now, the administration's message is that no worker should lose out financially, but the instruments to deliver that outcome remain proposals under discussion.