School of Music Conservatory form committee to “get to … – Express

Representatives of parents, students and the general of the Music School of the National Conservatory (EMCN) decided on Wednesday to form a commission that aims “to get reach the talks” to the Government, for the works required in the building.

“We will now outline a plan of action,” he told Lusa the director of EMCN, Ana Mafalda Pernao at the end of a meeting that took place this morning at school, to look for alternatives to closing ten rooms of the building, which remain closed , leaving many students without classes.

At this point, referred to the official, the priority is to “minimize the impact on students’ lack of classes, has been established a rotation system in the use of rooms available” not always harm them. “

” The problem is now trying to get the Ministry of Education talk to us, “says the director of the school, saying that we need a solution that” is not only the patch holes, but a deeper intervention. “

A survey of the Municipality of Lisbon to the building of EMCN forced, for security reasons, the closure of ten rooms, which made the students ran out some classes.

The ENCM was served on January 30 by the Lisbon City after being performed an inspection of the building, it would have to close, from February 16 ten classrooms for security issues, told Lusa the director of that school.

At the end of last week, the Ministry of Education assured the Lusa already authorized the direction of the Music School of the National Conservatory (EMCN) to trigger the necessary procedures to be able to reopen the ten rooms.

In response to Lusa agency issues, official ministry source said that “the direction of EMCN was informed by the Lisbon Services Directorate and Tagus Valley [General Directorate of School facilities], the priority interventions that should trigger the necessary procedures to carry out the intervention, as soon as possible. ” Ana Mafalda Pernao confirmed to Lusa that this was authorized Wednesday to “ask three quotes” for the execution of works, but said “not enough”.

On Tuesday, February 17, an engineer was at the school to “see the situation” and are now EMCN “waiting for a position by DGESTE.”

At the end of last year, students, parents and teachers managed to “raise some funds and make two interventions on the roof “in order to” minimize the damage, “said Ana Mafalda Tassel, noting that the Council of Lisbon had warned of the possibility of” any time can drop a roof. “

In December, the school closed the building’s courtyard, where “dropped pieces of frieze”, and, as in the previous month, the Municipal Assembly of Lisbon had discussed a report prepared by Members of the Culture Committee, after a visit to EMCN, which warned of the poor condition of the building.

When preparing the report, the school principal and the parents’ association wrote a letter to the Minister of Education to request an “urgent action” in the building which had reached an “unsustainable degradation state.”

In October, the PCP called, in a draft resolution presented in parliament, the redevelopment of the building.