Jean-Marie Oxéant resigns as mayor

During his fifth term, Jean-Marie Oxéant submitted his resignation to the Prefect of Calvados at the beginning of December. A letter received on the 13th of the month authorized him to leave office without waiting for the 2014 municipal elections. However, he remains a municipal councillor and president of the intermunicipal drinking water supply syndicate.

A native of Vierville-sur-Mer, like his parents and maternal grandparents, he knows the town well, which the article then describes as a territory of 641 hectares with 241 inhabitants. He joined the city council in 1977. The cut presents him as the first deputy from 1979, after the death of François de Bellaigue and the accession of Michel Hardelay to the mayor, then as mayor from 1983.

His decision is part of a personal and collective reflection initiated since his re-election in 2008. After four terms, he was already feeling a certain weariness, without wanting to lose interest in communal affairs. He had therefore agreed to commit himself one last time as mayor, but probably not for the entire term.

He had set himself several objectives: to help a team of eleven councilors, including six new ones, to invest in the municipality and the intermunicipal bodies; to conduct the revision of the land use plan, which has become a local urban planning plan; and to complete the sale of the four parcels of the municipal subdivision in order to welcome families living all year round. The compromise for the sale of the last land was signed the previous fall.

The redevelopment of the seafront and access to the beach was also close to his heart. The studies and plans had been finalized. The project had been taken over by the intermunicipality to obtain more favorable financing than those accessible to a single municipality. Jean-Marie Oxéant hoped to see the work completed by 2014 and thus restore more solemnity to this whole.

Another reflection concerned the town hall: it had to be made accessible to the public, more convenient and more versatile. An architect was studying several possibilities, but no solution had yet been achieved.

Always motivated, Jean-Marie Oxéant nevertheless believed that after five mandates a certain loss of dynamism justified preparing and anticipating the relay. He recalled that he had devoted half of his life to the office of mayor and considered his essential objectives to be achieved. He also highlighted the presence of recognized skills within the council.

After thirty-five years as a municipal elected representative, including twenty-nine as mayor, he thanked the people who had worked with him in the collective interest and sent his best wishes for success to his successor. At the time of the article, the entire municipal council was due to meet at the end of January to elect the new mayor.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- The cut presents Jean-Marie Oxéant as first deputy in 1979 and Michel Hardelay as the first deputy who became mayor. The report of the 1979 election kept in the fund indicates on the contrary Pierre Legallois as first deputy, Jean-Marie Oxéant as second deputy and specifies that Michel Hardelay had accepted the position of second deputy in 1971. The functions reported by this cut must therefore be read with this reserve.
- The letter of acceptance of the resignation is received "on the 13th"; the month and date of publication are not visible on the cut. The classification of the file links it to January 2012.

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