Benoît Payan, mayor of Marseille, spoke on Wednesday with Jean Castex, the Prime Minister, referring in particular to the situation of the city's schools, some of which are in a state of advanced deterioration.
"We talked about the complicated issue of schools in the city and how the state is going, with the city of Marseille, to make a major renovation plan", explained the councilor who already announced in March counting on a government assistance.
“The Prime Minister is extremely sensitive to these issues.
It is a commitment that has been made since we have started to work on the substance and on the form of what we are going to do, ”said the elected official who had already addressed the issue in March with President Emmanuel Macron.
"We have taken a new step and it is now up to the head of government to put all this to music," added the elected official who said he also met the Minister in charge of Communities Jacqueline Gourault and the Minister in charge of Public Accounts Olivier Dussopt .
First ten billion and a "long term" plan
"We have meetings almost daily with the services of the State, Bercy, the DGFIP (delegation to public finances) or even the deposit fund", specified Benoît Payan, evoking "a heavy and complicated assembly". Some 200 of the city's 472 schools would be affected by this plan even though their situations are different. "There are some who are in an absolute emergency, others in an emergency situation, others in a critical situation, others still to be partially renovated, others to be built or rebuilt", detailed the city councilor evoking a budget of more than a billion euros for the first ten years of a "long-term" plan.
"In terms of energy, when we have renovated the schools, we will obtain savings equivalent to the consumption of a city like Forcalquier [5,000 inhabitants]", he stressed.
"There are several options on the table on how we are going to manufacture a tool that will allow a real renovation of schools, something quite imaginative, quite unprecedented", explained the mayor of Marseille according to whom "nothing n 'is still stopped'.
Our file on Marseille
The new left-wing municipality of Marseille has made the rehabilitation of degraded schools in the city one of the priorities of its mandate.
A rehabilitation program for five school groups (11 schools) for 85 million euros, 90% funded by the ANRU (Regional Urban Renovation Agency), was voted in early April in its first budget.
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