Udovičić odstupila s mjesta pročelnice Odjela za kulturu?|Udovičić stepped down from her position of the Head of the Department for Culture?|Udovičić rinuncia al posto di assessore alla cultura?

15.12.2009.

Vrijeme: 14. pro­sin­ca 2009.
Mjesto: Gradska vijeć­ni­ca, Pula

Time: the 14th of December, 2009

Place: Town Hall, Pula

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Pročelnica Odjela za kul­tu­ru Grada Pule, Klara Udovičić, na sinoć­njoj je sjed­ni­ci Gradskog vije­ća odstu­pi­la s mjes­ta pro­čel­ni­ce neza­do­volj­na reor­ga­ni­za­ci­jom grad­ske upra­ve kojom se dosa­daš­njih 9 sma­nju­je na 7 uprav­nih odje­la, a nje­zin odjel pos­ta­je odsjek. Nije mogla sakri­ti razo­ča­ra­nje činje­ni­com da je Kulturi pro­ra­ču­nom za idu­ću godi­nu sre­za­no 1,3 mili­ju­na kuna. „U ovom gra­du više izdva­ja­mo za sport nego za kul­tu­ru una­toč činje­ni­ci da Pula nika­da neće biti grad spor­ta, a čini se ni grad kul­tu­re 2020. Ja ću dati svoj skro­man dopri­nos kul­tu­ri, u kul­tu­ri više neću biti“, poru­či­la je grad­skim vijeć­ni­ci­ma na odla­sku Klara Udovičić.

Tako su grad­ski čel­ni­ci još jed­nom poka­za­li kako kul­tur­ne poten­ci­ja­le svo­je­ga gra­da ne zna­ju isko­ris­ti­ti, da ih ne pre­poz­na­ju i/li ne priz­na­ju te da im se kul­tu­ra nala­zi sve niže i niže na nji­ho­voj ljes­tvi­ci prioriteta.

During the last nig­h­t’s sessi­on of the Town Council Klara Udovičić, the head of the Department for Culture of the Town of Pula, step­ped down from her posi­ti­on beca­use of her disa­ti­sfac­ti­on with the reor­ga­ni­za­ti­on of the town admi­nis­tra­ti­on: the num­ber of nine depart­ments will be redu­ced to only seven and the Department for Culture will beco­me a divi­si­on. Udovičić could not hide her disap­po­in­t­ment with the fact that in 2010 the Department for Culture will be allo­ted 1.3 mil­li­on Kuna less.

„This town allots more money to sports, alt­ho­ugh we will never be a town of sport. As it seems, we will not be the town of cul­tu­re in 2020 eit­her. I offer my hum­ble con­tri­bu­ti­on to cul­tu­re – I will not be a part of it anymo­re“, said Klara Udovičić to the town coun­ci­lors on her way out.

Town aut­ho­ri­ti­es have once aga­in pro­ved that  they are not capa­ble of explo­iting the cul­tu­ral poten­ti­als of this town and that they do not recog­ni­ze and/or do not want to admit that cul­tu­re is not one of the­ir priorities.