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Sessão Ordinária 31/03/2026

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Councilor Fernando Luz votes for a public hearing so hydrojetting workers can confront the councilor who accused them of not doing their jobs.

1. The Câmara Municipal de Esteio holds Ordinary Session 31/03/2026, covering legislative business, a pension-fund confrontation, infrastructure requests, and honorary motions. 2. Councilors present include Fernando Luz, Leo Dummer, Luciano Batistello, Amaral Negrito, Fábio Neumann, Eliezer Machado, Welter, Dallem Oliveira, Dr. Cláudio Duzick, and Derli Cianza; CISME president Silvia was welcomed at the session's opening. 3. The session's dominant theme is a political confrontation triggered by a social media video from Councilor Leo Dummer alleging the municipality did not remit nearly R$10 million to PREV-Esteio, the municipal pension fund. 4. Information Request 32-2026 (Councilor Leo Dummer) asked the Municipal Executive four questions: whether there are delayed payments to PREV-Esteio, the fund's financial position, whether any PREV resources were diverted for debt payments, and whether retirees were improperly discounted. 5. Councilor Fernando Luz opened the floor debate with the statement 'the truth doesn't make a curve,' acknowledging delayed payments under both the Gilmar and Pascoal administrations but characterizing Dummer's INSS comparison as 'misinformation' that he will not tolerate again. 6. Luz issued a direct public warning to Dummer: 'the next time you make a video with that misleading tone, you will be ashamed,' which Dummer immediately named as a threat and stated he was not afraid of. 7. Dummer responded by playing his original video in the chamber and dismantling each of Luz's four questions, arguing that none of them accurately described his video's actual content — he had said the city failed to remit funds, not that there was a surplus or deficit. 8. Dummer's substantive argument was that the city's official Tribunal de Contas data shows a R$23 million cash shortfall at the end of the first year of the current Felipe Costella administration, which he argued explains why pension contributions were not made. 9. Councilor Luciano Batistello produced the session's most structurally significant counter-argument: in 2013, when Leo Dummer was also a councilor, he voted in favor of an identical installment plan for pension arrears under Mayor Gilmar Rinaldi totaling R$2.531 million — now worth over R$10 million with interest. 10. Batistello argued that the current council did exactly the same thing in authorizing a refinancing arrangement, and that comparing pension payment installments to the INSS national fraud — where retirees' salaries were discounted without authorization — is factually false. 11. Councilor Welter described Dummer's video as a 'sensationalist headline' designed so viewers who don't watch to the end will conclude a fraud occurred, noting the council had to improvise rebuttals rather than prepare formal responses. 12. Councilor Eliezer quoted Dummer's video opening line verbatim, challenged the implication that the pension issue had national significance, and pointed out that the same political bench that raised this concern applauded when the national INSS CPI closed. 13. Eliezer proposed a public hearing on PREV-Esteio with all directors, technicians, and government representatives present, daring Dummer to co-sign it and stating the council would vote it through. 14. A separate debate arose over Information Request 31-2026 from Councilor Fábio Neumann about early closure of ecopoints (municipal waste disposal sites), particularly at Vila Olímpica on Rua da Paz. 15. Information Request 29-2026 (Councilor Leo Dummer) asked for updated air quality monitoring data from the municipality and requested the Environment Secretariat attend the Health and Environment Commission meeting. 16. Other requirements approved in the session include: an office to RGS about trees on João Freiner Avenue (Req 68, Dallem Oliveira), a guard rail request at the João Goulart viaduct lagoon (Req 69, Derli Cianza), and a street repair request on BR-116 near Canoas (Req 62, Welter). 17. Motion 22-2026 (Dr. Cláudio Duzick) honored educator Kátia Vaz, describing her 30 years in Esteio's public schools — including as a learning laboratory teacher, special education, and technology — and noting her 2024 national Prêmio Porvir finalist recognition alongside teacher Silvia Beatriz Farias; all councilors co-signed. 18. Motion 24-2026 (Cláudio Duzick) honored Dani Pachezan on completing her bachelor's degree in physiotherapy, recognizing her volunteer work in disability rights councils and forums. 19. Motion 26-2026 expressed condolences from all councilors to city hall employee André Furtado da Rosa for the death of his wife Sabrina Machado Minhos on March 27, 2026; a minute of silence was held. 20. Esteio municipal residents, those following local accountability debates in Rio Grande do Sul municipalities, or listeners interested in Brazilian municipal council confrontations over pension fund management will find the session directly relevant.

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