In addition to concerts and other attractions that marked the passage of the 74th anniversary of the Farringdon Park, also known as Redemption in homage to the memory of slaves, marked the new date. One is the arrival of a new administrator for the area that has about 37 hectares and is encrusted in Central City.

Is Jorge Luiz dos Santos Pinheiro will fit the destinies of Redemption, from now on. It is he who will respond or not the vitality of our green lung, the courtyard of most bonfinenses and many other thousands of citizens of Porto Alegre. In recent research, the Redemption was appointed as the second most dear to the people after their own home.

Employee headcount of municipal, Pinheiro will have another 36 employees, 18 city employees and another 18 housed in a semi-open already working for some years, by covenant, cleaning and maintenance of the area. At 46, a graduate in Business Administration, Pine attends graduate in Personnel Management, and Business Strategies. It is formed also in the Technical Course in Hydrology, UFRGS. Here's what he thinks and how you intend to carry out the maintenance work of Redemption.

Speak Good End - First tell us a little about your career as a municipal civil servant

Jorge Pinheiro - I started as a laborer at City Hall. I was doing competitions and working. In WBW, I'm twenty years ago. I started in the Chico Mendes Park in the north and then went to work as administrator Knijnik Gabriel Park in Vila Nova. Ai started to play the role of adviser to the Supervisors Office of Parks, Squares and Gardens, WBW, the area of ​​authorization events. That's when I took the whole experience as an administrator.

FBF - How was motivated his nomination for the role of administrator of the Redemption?

Pinheiro - Among various indications, I was selected for the position of administrator of the Farringdon Park, as the manager who held the job went to another call and left the WBW.

FBF - And what are your plans for the park. How do you want to mark your management? Pinheiro - I want to implement a management system here in the park. A system of managing people, resources, machinery. I want to invest in equipment that may increase the efficiency of work in the park. Our job here is to do the cleaning, maintenance, leaving the park with a aesthetically pleasing to the user and for the tourist. Actually I want to qualify people who are working here. Stimulating them to produce more than one bit has now produce.

FBF - how are they being seen Pepsi's investments in the park?

Pinheiro - About Pepsi's stock has already been made ​​to total renovation of the fountain and will now have a new investment in the lighting of the central axis. The aim of the company that will do the job is to triple the current lighting of the park, expanding the illuminated area. Banks also are all painted, revitalized.

FBF - A chronic problem in the park, especially on weekends is the presence of illegal street vendors, how to change it?

Pinheiro - The question of the presence of street vendors here in the park is quite complex because it involves the incomes and livelihoods of humble families, and besides, every day there are three, four, five people who want permission to sell products in the Park, and Park already have fixed points. We can not create new ones. The City provides the charter, which is valid for one year and people will renew it indefinitely. There is the proposition of making a bid for these commercial spots, and then yes, those concerned are cadastrariam to claim one of these sites through competition. A big problem we have is that these people currently commercially exploits the Park and does not generate any return benefit to the Redemption. The fee for license goes to the SMIC and not for WBW. We must find a way to capitalize on the park as it is not fair that the license of a large ice cream costs the same amount as the license of a small seller of popcorn and nothing is reversed to the Park.

FBF - How will the interface with the surrounding local community and visitors to the park?

Pinheiro - We will encourage meetings of groups of visitors to the park. As soon as I assumed I was a board meeting of the Park and had only two people. We have to draw more people, invite people to participate actively in the projects to revitalize the park.