This place serves both as a cafeteria for kindergarten students, but also as an activity space for neighborhood associations. Since mid-October, the latter have had to move 70 chairs and 8 tables before and after each session.
The Loisirs en garrigue association and the neighborhood committee of La Cigale were not taken aback by the difficulties encountered in carrying out their activities in the town hall of La Cigale, shared with the school canteen of the school of the same name. From mid-October,canteen staff refuse to clear tables and chairs after children’s meals”, plague Françoise Oheix, president of the committee.
To exercise at the gym or otherwise, members must therefore, in advance, set aside, twice a week, no less than seventy chairs and eight “tables of lourdes”, used by school children. They then have the obligation, after the exercise of their activities, to “put them back as they found them”, as canteen staff remember with a word written on a blackboard and a mirror.“We have to take into account that the average age of the members of these associations is over 60. Despite this, we are moving the equipment…”
Transfer to Eau-Bouillie or the Maison des associations
By implication, the feeling that we’re trying to drive them out of this place…
Indeed, during several meetings, Véronique Gardeur-Bancel, assistant delegate for education, and Xavier Douais, president of the district council of West Garrigues, proposed a transfer to “the renovated Eau-Bouillie room or the Maison des associations”. Solution that the chairman of the commission does not want to hear about: “L’Eau-Bouillie is three kilometers away. Most of our members come on foot… They won’t even come to the Maison des associations. Without the room, we kill the community life of the neighborhood.”
For the City, opposite “an increase in the number of schoolchildren from La Cigale who eat in the canteen, thus an increase in the space required by the regulations”, out of the question to compromise: “The mayor said children have priority. And municipal staff are not authorized to move tables and chairs. Associations are not disarming for everything that: “Let’s not despair, let’s insist!”
