The school where famed Romanian writer Ion Creanga studied, located in Brosteni, Botosani county, cannot be turned into a museum due to a longstanding debt. According to Mediafax, the debt has been unpaid for 10 years.
According to Brosteni mayor Mihai Molodeschi, the project for the transformation of the former school where Ion Creanga studiesd into a museum was declared eligible and the local authorities should have signed the funding contract with the Agency for the Funding of Rural Investments.
The project, valued at EUR 129, 898 is designed to turn the old building of the school into a museum that will bear the name of the famed Romanian writer. However, for the moment, the contract cannot be signed due to a longstanding debt of RON 400,000 the Brosteni City Hall still has to pay to the tax authorities. On this account, the tax authorities blocked the accounts of the Brosteni City Hall.
“Unfortunately, we still cannot sign this finance contract because we have debts to finance. It is an old debt of RON 400,000. We are 61 localities in this situation for a 2008 program of utilities and the environment that has not materialized, but we are left with the debts we cannot pay. Our accounts are frozen. We are now trying to take steps to benefit from a debt rescheduling and thus sign the financing contract. We have six months to sign the contract and we hope the Ion Creanga Museum will be ready next summer,” Mayor of Brosteni, Mihai Molodeschi, told Mediafax.
In 1848, Ion Creanga studied for one year at the Brosteni school, which he mentions in his most well known work, Amintiri din Copilarie.