The Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Regional Council aims to place sports, in all its forms, at the heart of its regional policy across a territory that unites all the conditions for sports to contribute to a new dynamic in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
To build this dynamic, all those who work daily in favor of sports are involved in discussions on sports development through extensive consultation.
The summary of these discussions will be presented at a large gathering on Saturday, June 25, and ultimately, will lead to the conception of the future territorial development plan for sports.
Listening, exchanging, defining expectations are the three axes of this consultation with the “grassroots” sports community led by Richard Miron, Vice-President of the Region, and also Deputy Mayor of Marseille for sports, who met yesterday evening with departmental representatives of sports federations and some clubs.
The first piece of good news from him is the confirmation of the sports budget, which, despite financial constraints, remains at 14.2 million euros.
The elected official also mentioned some administrative easing measures that could facilitate the relationship between clubs receiving financial aid: for example, aid up to 8,000 euros will be given in a single payment, up to 23,000 euros with a 70% advance: a boon for club finances.
Thus, through the FRAC, financing of 20% up to an amount of 200,000 euros is possible for investments in sports equipment.
For Philippe Manassero, the departmental president of the Olympic and Sports Committee, the regional objective to build a common sports project is going in the right direction. In his speech, he highlighted various themes concerning federations and clubs: job support, territorial coverage, resource harmonization. For him, the organizational framework provided by the Notre law, which favors the regional level, requires more time than allotted by the law: “a good marriage requires an engagement period,” he stated.
His proposal is to provide for a consultative commission to share skills and best practices.
To begin with, restore territorial equity that, in previous terms, was lost solely to the advantage of the regional capital!
And to remember that sports organization functions mainly thanks to passionate volunteers, valuing the equivalent number of hours at over 500 million euros. Enough to raise the question of the recognition of volunteer status.
The debate with the audience was not the most motivating part of the evening: as usual, everyone presented their personal case, often off-topic (we even heard about insufficient sanitary facilities!), with a variable interpretation of the general interest, identified with their own commentary or proposal.
As a long-experienced sports leader aptly said, “we’ve been saying the same things for 40 years!”
