The Lausanne municipal council set to work this Tuesday evening to animate the districts, whose politics are currently going through a crisis. Under the eyes of a group of socio-cultural animators who have come to fill the ranks of the public, the elected officials reviewed the responses of the Municipality to three questions about the recent heartbreak between the FASL and the City. Threatened with disappearance, the Foundation for socio-cultural animation is the subject of all attention. On the left, above all, where the three arresters come from the three red, pink and Green formations.
The long discussion led to the acceptance by a majority of three resolutions asking on the one hand to avoid the municipalization of the animation of the districts and to encourage a new rapid and concerted solution (Together on the left and the Greens), on the other hand to “guarantee, support and build” “a real public policy and a public service of socio-cultural animation” (socialists). A fourth resolution of the PLR has also passed the ramp, which claims the opening to the public of the audit of the Lausanne Financial Control, which has remained secret until then.
Rather measured, the debate went through the many facets of this animation of Lausanne’s districts which involves associations, professionals, a foundation, the City and the inhabitants. The problems lie on several levels, ideological, practical and in terms of interactions.
The PLR Philippe Miauton noted, not without malice, that this file, which occupies much of its opponents on the left, is steeped in paradoxes. Not only does it have the time to divide the three majority formations, but, in addition, it pushes the radical left to refuse municipalization.
The municipal councilor for his part believes that the lack of overall vision which, according to him, emerges from the entire sector, would rather militate for a complete recovery by the City. He specifies that it has nothing to do with a desire to save money: “We never said that socio-cultural animation was too expensive. We simply note that it is subsidized at 99.2% by the City … ”
For Johann Dupuis, of Ensemble on the left, one of the difficulties comes from the fact that socio-cultural animation was born from the field, 60 years ago. “This activity has always been managed as close to the neighborhoods as possible,” he says. It is therefore not easy to identify a public policy from realities that have developed in the four corners of the city, at different rates.
The elected official regrets that, according to him, the Municipality did not want to hear the listeners who analyzed the Lausanne socio-cultural animation and recommended to forge a real public policy of integration in the districts and to leave the field to the care to implement it. He also deplores “rushed negotiations”.
Among the Greens, Marie-Thérèse Sangra notes that the “unilateral decision” of the Municipality communicated in December to take over by itself all the management of the animation “tense” the protagonists of the field.
His colleague Ilias Panchard argues that there is a fear in the different districts of standardization. These fears are said to have been fueled in particular by binding elements (care, hours) appearing in the draft subsidy agreement. He asked for “appeasement” and the culmination of a “global and concerted solution” unlike that of municipalization, chosen by default and in a tense climate: “We cannot accept a fishtail ending.”
It is from another angle that the socialist Denis Corboz approaches the question. He recalls that the divergences between City and actors of the animation are historic. In the 1970s and 80s, the Municipality feared the rise of leftists.
In the 1990s, neighborhood houses began to be built against the advice of the organizers: “Today, the discussions continue. We are not a priori for municipalization, but we must now make decisions.” Above all, the elected representative urges the Municipality to communicate more so as not to leave the players on the ground in the dark.
Responding to a multitude of interventions, the municipal in charge, David Payot, repeats that he wants concertation. There cannot be 17 neighborhood policies like so many animation centers. Many city departments are also involved in all activities related to neighborhood life. Meetings have already taken place and there must still be some, in particular in each socio-cultural center, from March: “We must find orientations that can reach consensus.”
Created: 29.01.2020, 07:01
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