Mario MILONE
Deputy Mayor
Secretary of Town Planning, Culture
Responsible for: Town Planning, Cultural Activities, Archives and Exhibition Areas, Relations with the University, Libraries, Old City Centre
Born in Palermo on 27 January 1947, a civil lawyer, a lecturer in Town Planning Law at the Faculty of Architecture of Palermo University, and a lecturer in Legislation of Cultural and Environmental Resources at the Faculty of Science of Palermo University. From 1999 to 2001 he was Secretary of the Territory and the Environment in the Regional Province of Palermo.

Alessandro ANELLO
Secretary of Sport
Responsible for: Sports Activities and Management of Sports Facilities
Born in Palermo on 4 November 1967. Entrepreneur in the field of tourism. Joined the Forza Italia (Come on Italy) party in 1995, becoming Vice-President of the Forza Italia Club “Projects”. In 1997, on the Forza Italia ticket, he was elected Councillor of the eighth Ward, holding the position of Vice-President. In 2003 he stood for election in the second constituency, Central Palermo, and was elected Councillor of the Palermo Regional Province. Elected Palermo Town Councillor for the first time in May 2007 with 1992 votes.

Sebastiano BAVETTA
Secretary of Controlled Companies and Agencies
Responsible for: Controlled and/or Partly Owned Agencies
Born in Palermo on 27 March 1964, an economist and political economics lecturer at Palermo University. He is also a visiting research associate and director of the research programme on “Democracy, Business and Human Well-Being” at the Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Centre for Economic and an International Studies Researcher at Tor Vergata University, Rome.

Felice BRUSCIA
Secretary of Productive Activities
Responsible for: Productive Activities, Single Counter, Administrative Licences for the Occupation of Public Spaces, Advertising Spaces, Public Posters and Bill Sticking, Relations with the Town Council
Born in Palermo on 20 July 1962 and on the staff of the Sicilian Region, he was returned to the Town Council in 2001, after gaining experience in the sixth Ward “mini-parliament”, of which he was President. He was the leader of his party in the Town Council and in May 2007 he was re-elected on the Christian Democrats and Centre Democrats Union ticket with 3022 votes.

Filippo CANNELLA
Secretary of Hygiene and Health
Responsible for: Hygiene and Health
Born in Prizzi (Palermo) on 6 February 1937. A mathematics graduate, he is a qualified mathematics and physics teacher. He has taught applied mathematics at high school level and been headmaster of the Francesco Ferrara Technical Commercial School in Palermo, the Bisacquino Technical Commercial School, the Bagheria Scientific High School, the Fifth Technical Institute in Palermo, and the Einstein Scientific High School in Palermo. He retired two years ago. He was President of the Libertà ward and a Christian Democrat Councillor (1990) for two years, and then Secretary for the Budget and Local Taxes during the mayorship of Manlio Orobello. He later joined European Democracy and then the UDV (Union of Christian and Centre Democrats).

Giampiero CANNELLA
Secretary of Social Activities and the Home
Responsible for: Social Activities, Equal Opportunities, Housing Action, Assignment of Confiscated Property as Living Accommodation
Born in Palermo on 24 June 1965. A professional journalist and provincial coordinator of Alleanza Nazionale since March 2003. He was an AN (National Alliance) national deputy in the fourteenth legislature, member of the Culture Commission, leader of his party in the Parliamentary Commission that investigated the deaths of Ilaria Alpi and Miran Hrovatin. He is regional chief of his party’s Internet and communications office. The positions he has held include that of Regional Secretary for New School Buildings in the Province of Palermo, and Secretary of the New Economy and Computerization in the Municipality of Desio (Province of Milan).

Marcello CARUSO
Secretary of Education
Responsible for: Education, School Building

LORENZO CERAULO

Secretary for Infrastructures, Sea and Coasts

Responsible for: Public Works, Sea and Coasts, Expropriations, Mobility and Traffic, Integrated Plan for Mass Public Transport, Municipal Police, Large Sports Facilities

Roberto CLEMENTE
Secretary of Human Resources
Responsible for: Personnel, Civil Defence, Demographic Services
Born in Palermo on 25 February 1963. On staff of the experimental Animal Care Institute. Joined the Nuova Sicilia (New Sicily) party as soon as it was founded. During the last Council’s term of office, he replaced the group leader Nicolò Nicolosi, who resigned in May 2002. In the administrative elections held in May 2007, he was re-elected on the UDC (Christian Democrats and Centre Democrats Union) ticket with 2026 votes.

Pippo ENEA
Secretary of Municipal Property, Cemeteries
Responsible for: Real Estate Resources, Maintenance, Motor Car Fleet, Confiscated Property, Assignment of Confiscated Non-Residential Property, Cemetery Services, Management of Barbera Stadium
Born in Palermo on 15 August 1952. A bank employee, he was Ward Councillor from 1980 to 1985 and, from 1985 to 1990, President of what was then the Pallavicino-Z.E.N. quarter. He was a national executive of the Christian Democrat youth movement from 1977 to 1983 and subsequently a Palermo Town Councillor from 1990 to 2001, first for the Christian Democrats and then for the CDU (United Christian Democrats).

Francesca GRISAFI
Secretary of the Environment, Public Gardens and Urban Furniture, Parks and Reserves
Responsible for: Environment, Public Gardens and Urban Furniture, Parks and Reserves
Born in Misilmeri (Palermo) on 4 June 1949. Mayor’s Adviser on Public Gardens and Urban Furniture from 2002 until 9 March 2008. Full Professor of Applied Environmental Botany at the Faculty of Agriculture, Palermo University. Teaches in the 3-year degree courses in Biological Agriculture, Viticulture and in  the specialized degree course in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies (Plant Production Systems Curriculum). Also at the Faculty of Agriculture, Palermo, she taught in the Master’s course on "Irrigation in the Mediterranean Environment" and held cycles of lessons on public parks and gardens; she was on the Regulatory Committee of the Master’s Degree in “Biological Production and Quality Control in the Agriculture and Food Industry”; Member of the Examining Board for the Doctorate in Environmental Hydronomy; Member of Register of Auditors of Miur-Cofin (Ministry of Education, University and Research-Co-Financing) for assessment of research projects; Member of Board of Experts in the Steering Committee for the Assessment of Research in Italian Universities. Head of the Plant Ecophysiology Research Laboratory, Department of Botanical Sciences, Palermo University (supervision of one Researcher, two PhD students, and two undergraduate students). She has published about ninety papers in national and international journals,  recently developing a special interest in arboreal plants and species of drought-resistant lawn grass and in  pollution-related problems. Member of the Italian Botanical Society and the Italian Plant Physiology Society.

Eugenio RANDI
Secretary of Private Building
Responsible for: Private Building, Special and European Community Projects
Born on 11 October 1957. Executive Officer of the Sicilian Region. Formerly a specially appointed Commissioner Extraordinary, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Giovanni Falcone Boarding School in Palermo. Elected Town on the Forza Italia Ticket, receiving 2097 votes.

Raoul RUSSO
Secretary of Tourism and Young People’s Policies
Responsible for: Tourism, Young People’s Policies, Office for Relations with the Public
Born in Palermo on 3 March 1971. Engaged in political activity from a very early age in the “Fronte della gioventù” (Youth Front”), of which he was provincial secretary and a national executive. In 1992 he entered the MSI-DN (Italian Social Movement – National Right Wing) provincial executive and in 1995 he was a party delegate at the Congress held in Fiuggi, where he was elected a national executive of AN (National Alliance). He is currently a member of the party’s provincial executive. Twice elected Palermo Town Councillor. He has been President of the Town Council Commissions “Production Activities” and “General Affairs”. Member of national executive of ANCI (National Association of Italian Communes) and among the founders of the Nuova Italia (New Italy) association. He held the position of political counsellor to the Minister of Agricultural Policies in the previous government. He has long been involved in the world of voluntary work and nonconformist culture, is an activist in the environmentalist association “Fare Verde” (“Act Green”), and actively militates to spread the Church’s “social doctrine” through the Catholic association “Uomo e Società” (“Man and Society”).