Carpiquet votes to close its swimming pool, which is too expensive to maintain

“We are in mourning”, confesses Floris Legrand, collaborator of Pascal Sérard, the mayor of Carpiquet (Calvados), after the vote, Monday, December 6, with 19 votes to 4, for the closure of the Siréna aqualudic center, opened in 2007. “We would have preferred the solution of a transfer to the Caen la Mer urban community, but they did not want it. But to get married, it takes two. “

“The center is the subject of a Public Service Directorate which expires on December 31. Of the 150,000 users, only 4% are from Carpiquet. However, the equipment costs € 600,000 per year to the municipality. The money saved will go to schools, associations or the CCAS, ”says Floris Legrand.

“We are very unhappy,” laments Dr. Dominique Pain, from the opposition. “The swimming pool is used by many school children, sometimes from neighboring municipalities. But the mayor refused to organize a referendum! A negotiation could have succeeded with Caen la Mer. I am scandalized because the vote took place by show of hands. It was no secret and it was delicate for some, even the majority, to go against it. The mayor waved the flag in fear of the increase in property tax. “For his part, Daniel Morin, also from the opposition and former mayor, believes that” Pascal Sérard necessarily had this closure in mind in 2020, but he only spoke about it in January 2021. “

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