CITY COUNCIL MEETING
ON JANUARY 16, 2009
In the year two thousand and nine, on January sixteenth at eight thirty p.m., the City Council legally convened, met at the town hall in public session under the presidency of Mr. OXEANT Jean-Marie, Mayor.
Were present: MM. OXEANT Jean-Marie, DE BELLAIGUE Antoine, LARONCHE Daniel, Mrs. GUILBERT Isabelle, HAUSERMANN Odette, Mrs. THIEBOT Coralie
MM BOUGAULT Rémi, FONTAINE Didier, DESCOLONGES Pierre, GUEDON Henri, HELEINE Jacques forming the majority of the members in office.
Absent(s) excused: None
I-Vierville Post Office:
At its last meeting, the city council had to once again address the issue of the future of the Vierville post office because the post office management decided to further reduce the opening time to the public from 10 a.m. currently to 5 a.m. in the coming weeks.
The city council regrets this new blow to the maintenance of public service in rural areas. This is not the first; for 10 years, they have been numerous and have always resulted for the Vierville office in a decrease in its opening time (part-time transition as part of a twinning with St Laurent, definitive closure of St Laurent, decrease in winter opening, then in summer, office closure on Wednesdays and Saturdays, always complicated by users' attendance at the office, attempt at total closure in the summer of 2007 and today's desire to keep only 5 hours a week).
The municipal council, after having exchanged with M. BESNARD, during a previous meeting has therefore decided, with regret, to opt for the creation of a municipal postal agency, on the sole condition of obtaining the agreement of the post office for 15 hours of weekly opening, or five mornings a week, from Tuesday to Saturday.
An agreement will be signed guaranteeing these provisions for nine years, with the payment of a monthly contribution by the Post Office of 855 euros, the provision and maintenance of computer equipment by post, the municipality becoming the employer of the person in charge of the counter, in the premises of the former Post Office.
These provisions will take effect in the coming weeks. The municipal council thus intends to remain in its logic of maintaining a place of service and social ties.
II-Air network burial work in the village:
The final preliminary draft has been approved. The amount of the cost of the work amounts to €292,000, the remaining amount paid by the municipality is €46,780 (€35,000 paid on the surpluses of the 2006 Municipal Budget and €11,780 by a 6-year loan).
This work, which will last at least 3 months, will not be undertaken until after the summer of 2009.
III-Green Brigades:
Pending the creation of a public interest group, the city council renews its trust in the Green Brigade and decides to commission in 2009 "Bayeux Intercom Brigades Vertes" for environmental monitoring on the territory of the municipality of Vierville sur Mer.