MARSAS. Brigitte Misiak and her team discussed the developments launched to facilitate traffic and announced a few projects.
Almost three years after the installation of the new team, Brigit te Misiak was able to offer a greeting ceremony to the population (1244 inhabitants). In front of around a hundred people, the mayor, elected since 1994, briefly reviewed the events that marked the start of her mandate, which began in the spring of 2020. And precisely, in almost three years, the project that has had the greatest impact on the municipality is undoubtedly the construction of the Philippe-Madrelle public college. Sized for 800 pupils, it accommodates no less than 644 pupils in this school year. “Together, the construction and pooling of the gymnasium outside school hours has enabled our residents to benefit from local sports and artistic facilities. A real opportunity that resulted in the creation of a basketball club with 205 members and a climbing wall 11 meters high, making it the highest on the right bank of the Gironde,” pointed out Brigitte Misiak.
Securing the pathways leading to college
But the arrival of college has changed some habits. The municipality has therefore created a soft route between the school and the college in 2021 to complete it in 2022 with sidewalks in the hamlet of Caillou, between the roundabout of the Croix de Virecourt and the RD 18 route de Libourne, as well as a protected passage to cross this road taken every day by 4000 vehicles. “On these two axes, our children are now safe. The finishing works are scheduled for the second half of 2023. For the roads, we have mobilized no less than 98,800 euros, ”supports the city councilor. So obviously, Brigitte Misiak is delighted with this attractiveness which is also generating a strong real estate boom with the creation of two housing estates, at Croix de Merlet (eight houses) and in the town (ten houses), not to mention the parcel divisions. Each year, around 25 building permits are filed. “A reflection with the other communities of the CDC is in progress: this will result in a PLUi having as a paradigm a development respecting our identity”, underlined Brigitte Misiak.
On other issues, the mayor of Marsas mentioned the reflection this year on parking in front of the town hall, in order to respond to the multiple uses that are developing with shops and events in the village hall. She also indicated that the municipality has embarked on a program to reduce energy expenditure by equipping almost all municipal buildings with LEDs and by turning off public lighting from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m.
Ending her remarks on the reform of the Smicval, Brigitte Misiak was firm on the reform initiated by the union that the municipal council rejected unanimously. “Deemed too brutal, unfair to the elderly, disabled or sick, we are witnessing a breakdown in public service which must be accessible to all, without discrimination. For us, it is a reform unsuited to rural areas with the fear of an increase in illegal dumping that could cause public health problems”. The mayor concluded that “waste must be eliminated at its source and not be managed by the citizens at the end of the chain. The Smicval must quickly join this approach to change the postulate of the polluter pays”.
Christophe Meynard
