Allocation of sports subsidies: what will change for clubs in Toulouse
By Quentin Marais
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New month… and new city council in Toulouse, this Friday 1uh July 2022. And among the deliberations that were on the agenda: sports grants. The terms of allocation have been reviewed: here is what will change.
“Distortions and injustices were created”
The mayor of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Moudenc, first justified this revision: “over time, created distortions and injustices. After a year of work, discussion and consultation with the clubs concerned, the local clubs, Laurence Arribagé and Julie Pharamond created an agreement which is, today, formalized by deliberation”. This allows, according to the first city councilor, to “put things in order with clear and formalized criteria for the first time and, above all, a return clause annually, so as not to create new distortions and injustices over time and results”.
System change
It’s a real system change who is going to be operated on. “The one that had been in place for decades was that the operating subsidy was allocated according to the level of classification: departmental, regional, national… There was a rate of representativeness of the discipline, and the foot was therefore overrated compared to the others,” noted Laurence Arribagé, sports assistant.
“This is why the basic premise of this reform was to erase the level of practice and focus instead on the number of licensees, and in particular the number of young licensees and their supervision. All disciplines are housed in the same boat. It is to have a more understandable, fairer, fairer, more readable system.”
Thus, the grant will be divided into two parts. “A very mathematical part, with the number of licensees, both adults and young people. And a part depending on what the club does for the life of the city: is there a real diversity, does it welcome the public in a situation of disability, does he carry out actions in the Town, a detailed Laurence Arribagé. Depending on this, the addition of the two determines the amount of the grant. »
A hundred clubs concerned
As the mayor of the fourth largest city in France had already revealed, this is a job lasting several months. A questionnaire was sent end of May 2021 to all clubs: subsidized ones, one hundred, but also all those who use sports equipment. So these are almost 500 clubs which have been concerted,” said Laurence Arribagé. The town hall asked them “what was, in their opinion, a priority for granting a subsidy amount”.
Present alongside Jean-Luc Moudenc and his sports assistant, Julie Pharamond, municipal councilor in charge of relations with amateur sports clubs, added that these clubs ” were taken per sports practice group : those who use large playgrounds, gymnasiums, fighting rooms… We have been as close as possible to them to understand their specific needs”.
An eye on the percentages
To shed light on this new system, some figures have been given. Laurence Arribagé unveiled “another postulate” of this reform, concerning the amount of the subsidy. ” Il will not exceed 25% of the club’s budget. There are clubs where it is only 3-4%, and others 86%. The sports assistant also explains that the national average is “at 18%. And every year, we look at the budgets of the clubs. It’s scalable, it will be fairer and it will avoid what we experienced in the previous mandate”.
Other clubs will see, however, their subsidies drop. “This decline cannot exceed 20%. It will be smoothedand we have planned to accompany everyone”, has already anticipated Laurence Arribagé.
“One of the existing inequalities, which the system will correct, is the situation of certain clubs which are subsidized much more in percentage terms by municipal financial aid, compared to others which make more diversified efforts. The new subsidy system provides that at the very beginning of the season, 80% of the subsidy is voted and that only 20% is voted towards the end, which allows the community to check that the criteria which are in the reform is beautiful and well respected.”
Improve community control
This deliberation therefore aims “to improve the control of the community, since there is this annual repayment clause“, added Jean-Luc Moudenc, who made a point of underlining “that there are 543 municipal sports facilities, which place Toulouse in the top podium in terms of sports facilities”. And the elected to recall, concerning the respect of republican principles and secularism, “that it is not in the reform, the charter on this subject already exists, and it’s been several years that we ask of all the clubs of the signatory”.
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