The National Assembly adopted, at first reading, an amendment granting 254 million euros for the renovation of 174 Schools Marseilles, within the framework of the vote of budget 2022.
Le Monde with AFP
Nearly two months after the first trip of Emmanuel Macron to Marseille to present the state emergency aid plan to the city, the National Assembly adopted on first reading on Thursday, October 28, a Amendment providing for specific aid of 254 million euros for the renovation of 174 Schools Marseilles, during the vote of the budget project 2022.
“If these credits are registered, it is that we are in the idea of an emergency plan,” said the Minister of Cohesion of the Territories, Jacqueline GOURAULT, during the presentation of this government amendment to the bill of finance (PLF). “We are in a state of disrepair of the schools that the state has decided to intervene,” she added, stating that 174 institutions would be “helped”. In total, it is “1.2 billion euros” which are necessary to restore the total of 174 schools, recalled the minister.
The amendment adopted by the members specifies that these credits “will be supplemented by other financings from public operators”, among others on presentation of files at the National Agency for Urban Renovation (ANRU). The amount of these aid is not yet known. “Of course, the rest of the financing is brought by the city of Marseille,” said the minister.
Benoît Payan salutes “the very strong will of the state”
Prefabricated frozen winter, water leaks, rats … Numbers of Marseillais schools are dilapidated. This is particularly because of this known situation in many institutions that the Mayor of Marseille, the Socialist Benoît Payan, had called the state using this summer. Mr. Macron had thus been done on September 2nd in the Phocaean city to present a large aid plan for the city. Education, Police, Justice, Transport: The total amount of the plan is estimated at 1.5 billion euros, excluding school renovation.
“It’s something quite rare and particular that has just happened, it is the translation that with will, with work and fierceness, we can take up this city “responded Mr. Payan from Agence France-Presse, the vote of the state aid by members. “It is also the translation of the very strong desire of the state to wear with us the project for this city,” added the Edile, renting the fact that, “even if it is not the same political family, the President of the Republic (…) held “his commitments.
If these provisions are definitively approved by Parliament in the 2022 budget by early December, the City Council of Marseille scheduled to meet before the end of the year to launch as soon as the first work Approving the creation of the company (involving the state and the city) which will pilot the renovation program. The amendment adopted in first reading in the Assembly provides additional 6 million euros for the establishment and operation of the company as well as for the realization of the first predictive studies.