VILLENEUVE-LEZ-AVIGNON After a successful season, the city council grants an exceptional subsidy to the Football club
This Thursday evening, the elected officials of Villeneuve-lez-Avignon exercise their back-to-school municipal council. It started strong with a session that lasted 2:20, punctuated by numerous observations from the opposition.
We will pass on to you the technical debates and raisings of tone on the modification of the PLU (Local urban plan) or on the purchases and transfers of plots. Deliberation n ° 8, relating to the creation and deletion of posts of municipal agents (fluctuating according to advancements in rank, appointments and retirements, editor’s note), still tickled Morgan Buisson, elected opposition representative from Villeneuve social, ecological and united. ” Since the summer period, no less than six agents have requested and obtained their transfer, others are waiting for it, still others are close to burnout. Lately, it’s the entire communication department that“, points the latter. He also points out that the number of industrial accidents is three times higher in Villeneuve than the average for towns in the same stratum. And to add: You call yourself the representative of good living in Villeneuve, but what about well-being at work within the municipality? »
The mayor, Pascale Bories affirms that the agents wishing to be transferred have been accompanied in their choice ” motivated and sincere“. According to her, this is sometimes explained by travel times between home and work that are too long, too expensive or by the desire to take up new challenges, to meet new people. She recognizes the accident numbers and says: ” We noticed the day after the confinement that organizations were to be resumed. We will appoint a person who will ensure that all the processes are carried out to secure the staff as much as possible. Nothing that convinces the minority elected officials, the deliberation will be adopted with three oppositions and three abstentions.
Although all the elected officials are in favor of it, another subject has sparked discussion: it is the exceptional subsidy of €5,000 paid to the Football club of Villeneuve-lez-Avignon (FCV). The association has been very successful and saw four of its teams reach the next level at the end of the previous season. ” This will lead to additional costs to ensure the travel and supervision of the teams“, points out the municipal councilor responsible for sports, Jacques Pastourel. This is why the City wishes to grant this additional envelope of €5,000 to the annual operating subsidy, which is €22,600. She will also sign the renewal of the annual agreement for 2023 with additional aid of €10,000. This will be able to relieve the club which could not organize its tournament in June because of a construction site on the grounds, which represents a shortfall of €15,000, estimates Jacques Pastourel.
Bories and Buisson warm up on the pitch
Indeed, the town hall has launched work on the adjoining land not yet usable. Morgan Buisson describes a lawn which does not resist crampons » and recalls that « this work represents a considerable investment of €313,000 excluding tax“. As for Florent Lemont (Union citoyenne de Villeneuve), he wonders if sponsorship would not be wise. ” We accompany the club on the search for sponsorship. Enormous work has been done in recent months to respond to this increase in costs. It is difficult to refuse the rise in the league of the teams under the pretext that they do not have the subsidies to access it“, answers Pascale Bories.
She recalls that each association in the municipality has different needs depending on whether there is travel, the amounts collected by the federations, and that each receives appropriate aid. Addressing Morgan Buisson, the mayor’s ironic reply: ” Perhaps you would have preferred that we install a synthetic turf? Perhaps you would have liked us to stop sprouting because of the drought and lose the entire season? Maybe we were supposed to stop watering and there would be no football stadium? ” Morgan Buisson denies but suggests that a watering ” during the hottest hours of the day was not wise. What Pascale Bories argues: “ You are not a technician and neither am I. I trust the services and the commissioned company. »
Morgan Buisson gave a layer of it in his oral question at the end of the council. Whereas ” this summer was synonymous with one of the worst droughts in 500 years according to a report“, he deplores the new Thomas-David schoolyard without bitumen but “ in agglomerated tires” , trees ” seen as decorative elements “or even that the municipality” has worked on the establishment of a golf course in the middle of an agricultural area and Natura 2000“… Emmanuel Suffet, municipal councilor in charge of the climate plan, retorted that a” substantive work was carried out, particularly in the territorial approach committed to energy transition, the establishment of more permeable soils, cool areas, the thermal renovation of municipal buildings, etc. We will especially retain his conclusion: “ The climate is everyone’s business. »
Mary Meunier