Albi.The MJC refuses to be deprived of part of its premises

"You have to ask him".At the MJC, the members of the board of directors wonder what they could do at the town hall to deserve such treatment.Silenting for a year, yesterday, they wanted to express their concerns and their questions.

It all started during the municipal council in December 2020. That evening, the elected officials voted for the abolition of part of the subsidies to the structure (€ 80,000).Reason invoked by the mayor: the MJC does not know how to reinvent itself.The structure was alerted just a few days before.The "blow" is severe but the MJC hears the message and works to develop a project.In this one, the courtyard and the old kitchens take a key place.The structure wants to reorganize around the courtyard with an entrance by rue Jules Rolland."Since 2017, we have been thinking about turning the activity from the structure to the Court for security reasons," said the board of directors.In its projects, the structure intends to create an associative coffee instead of the old kitchens and a participatory garden in the courtyard.She started talking to the city in June during a board of directors.

And there during the last municipal council, new blow.The city grants the right to the habitat of young people in Albigensians to request a building permit on the building which adjoins the MJC but also on a part of the plot whose MJC has the use by agreement with the city.Basically, more than half of the courtyard and the kitchens, which will be destroyed."The real estate project brutally dislodges the MJC of spaces which are however devoted to it by convention with the city".Again, the project was presented to the MJC a few days before the council.

For the structure, such a project calls into question its own, but also its current functioning."The court serves. We make events there. It is not a wasteland. During the health crisis, we were doing the workshops. Certainly today, it is invaded by herbs but it is winter we leaveLive the floors ".The old kitchen is also used to store equipment.

The board of directors therefore intends to refuse this project, recalling that there are other solutions to create a home of young workers in the city.Project to which the MJC adheres totally having itself managed in the past such a home.

But the city can overcome the refusal of the MJC.The convention that binds both parties stops in June."In June, the town hall will be able to denounce it. We can be dislodged overnight," said the board of directors.

When we add to this that the city no longer relays information from the structure in its municipal newspaper, we understand that the members ask themselves a few questions."Today in this situation, how not to feel a shaking of our confidence in the future of the MJC project that the city encourages us to conceive?"

However, there is no question of digging up the ax of war, the members wish to "find their way to dialogue".And reiterate their request for an appointment with the city.So far, their requests have remained a dead letter.