- Jean-Luc Moudenc, mayor of Toulouse and candidate for his re-election, launched a swimming pool plan which he intends to pursue to renovate the current aging park.
- His opponents draw their proposals.
The swimming pools of Toulouse are twelve, like the works of Hercules. The comparison is not unjustified in view of the state of the city's basins, which are generally aging. An observation on which are found all the candidates for mayor interviewed on the file. The current municipality has drawn up a swimming pool plan of 30 million euros, until 2025.
“We could have put the entire budget in an Olympic swimming pool, explains Laurence Arribagé, current sports assistant and number 2 on the list of mayor-candidate Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR, supported by LREM). This does not mean that we are not thinking about larger equipment. But we first decided to take care of the existing, modernize it, create additional swimming meters with Nordic pools [outside and heated], put family spaces, water games. "
The reopening of the Bellevue swimming pool took place on Saturday after lengthy work, and with a Nordic pool usable all year round. That of Alban-Minville is scheduled for June. "The municipality has only closed swimming pools during this mandate and is proposing a plan that essentially runs for the next mandate," deplores the ecologist Antoine Maurice, head of the list of Archipel Citoyen. We want to rehabilitate the existing and extend the hours as well as the opening periods. "
The current swimming pool plan runs until 2025
Laurence Arribagé explains that the twelve swimming pools will all be open in 2025, after work on alternately Chapou, Toulouse-Lautrec, Castex, Nakache winter and summer then Léo-Lagrange. "I offer a global and sincere audit of the real state of our swimming pools," says Quentin Lamotte, head of the National Gathering list who talks about "a critical situation". "Too many swimming pools have been patched up to avoid raising the question of carrying out large-scale works or of their outright closure and demolition, in order to rebuild new pools adapted to current sporting and energy requirements", underlines- there.
"It is important to have a pool plan at the scale of the metropolis, judge Isabelle Hardy, second on the list" For cohesion "led by the former mayor Pierre Cohen (Generation. S). In this plan, we must integrate the arrival of new neighborhoods, but that applies to all that is sports equipment. Priority must be given to the suburbs, everything that is not the city center. We can incorporate different types of activities, such as thermal bathing. "
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For Nadia Pellefigue's team (PS-PRG-PCF), it is also a question of taking into account the impact of climate change. “We will make sure to open the pools on hot days, to extend their hours during the opening period. The outgoing municipality has abandoned or closed sports facilities in neighborhoods, such as the Ancely swimming pool. With the city of five minutes, Toulousain-es must be able to find within five minutes of their home a gymnasium, a playground or a swimming pool. "
The Ancely swimming pool, still a sensitive subject
The reopening of Ancely, which was closed by the current municipality in the summer of 2016, is also supported by the lists “For cohesion” and Citizen Archipelago. "Before building, we must stop closing swimming pools," pleads Antoine Maurice. And also think about the coexistence of users, from the simple swimming enthusiast to the high level swimmer. "Despite our status as the fourth city in France, we cannot receive national level competition", regrets Quentin Lamotte.
"Beyond the leisure and health use of swimming pools, we must think of sports facilities worthy of the high level of a number of our Toulouse athletes", we note in the team of Nadia Pellefigue. Several members of the TOEC Dolphin Club are currently training to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics (July 24-August 9), far from the electoral debates.
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