The resignation of Mayor Jean-Marie Oxéant

During his fifth term, Jean-Marie Oxéant submitted his resignation as mayor of Vierville-sur-Mer to the Prefect of Calvados at the beginning of December. A letter received on the 13th authorized him to leave this function without waiting for the 2014 municipal renewal.

Originally from Vierville-sur-Mer, like his parents and maternal grandparents, he had known this commune for a long time, presented in the article as a territory of 641 hectares with 241 inhabitants. He joined the city council in 1977. The cut indicates that he had become first deputy in 1979, following the death of Mayor François de Bellaigue and the accession of Michel Hardelay to mayor, then that he had been elected mayor in 1983.

He explained his decision through a personal and collective reflection, initiated from his last re-election. In 2008, after four terms, he was already feeling a certain weariness. Still interested in municipal affairs, he had agreed to run one last time, while considering not going to the end of the mandate.

He had then set himself several objectives: to accompany a municipal team of eleven members, including six new elected officials, and help them take their place in the municipality and in the intermunicipal bodies; lead the transition from the Land Use Plan to the Local Urban Planning Plan; finally, complete the sale of the four parcels of the municipal subdivision in order to promote the installation of families living in Vierville 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 study and plans had been finalized. The file had been taken over by the intermunicipality to seek more favorable financing than those accessible to municipalities alone. He hoped that the work would be completed by 2014 and believed that this project would restore more serenity to the entire waterfront.

Another project of reflection concerned the town hall: making it accessible to the public, more convenient and more versatile. An architect had been asked to study the feasibility of different projects, with no results at the time of the article.

Jean-Marie Oxéant said he remained motivated, but considered it legitimate to pass the hand after having devoted a large part of his life to the town hall. He considered that a long-held function could lose its dynamism and that it was preferable to anticipate succession. The skills acquired in thirty-five years of communal life seemed to him transmissible to his successor.

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 wished success to the one who would succeed him. He retained his seat as a municipal councillor and the presidency of the Syndicat intercommunal d'adduction en water potable. A Council, remaining complete, was to meet at the end of January to elect the new mayor.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- The file name places this cut in January 2012, but the full publication date does not appear on the fragment. The mention of a letter received on the 13th is kept without giving it a month.
- This article presents Jean-Marie Oxéant as first deputy from 1979. The cut of Michel Hardelay's election then presents him as a second deputy. The two press testimonies are retained without deciding this difference.

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