City Council: review the back-to-school session of October 1st

This Friday, October 1 was the back-to-school session of the municipal council. 170 deliberations were examined by elected municipal officials.

Among the reports on the agenda, the theme of education was once again central.

Schools and children are a top priority for this mandate. The little Marseillaises and the little Marseillais are the citizens of tomorrow, and the municipality wants to offer them access to education - in a logic of equal rights. This requires an unprecedented plan to improve and renovate the building education (already mentioned in previous sessions) with greener, more inclusive schools, more open to the neighbourhoods. This also involves setting up an ambitious educational project before, during and after school.

Urban planning and sustainable development were also on the agenda of this session with, in particular, the approval of the sustainable construction charter for the improvement of the quality of constructions on the territory of the City of Marseille. The increase in housing tax on second homes was also examined. The purpose of this measure is to try to ease the real estate market in areas where access to housing is particularly difficult due in particular to the scarcity of supply. It is therefore a question of encouraging owners to put back on the market housing that is very often under-occupied or unoccupied.

After having recently hosted the IUCN World Conservation Congress (nearly 10,000 international experts gathered), the City of Marseille also wishes to affirm its position as a city committed to ecological transition. Its ambition is to be among the exemplary and driving European cities for accelerating the decarbonization of territories and strengthening their ability to adapt to the inevitable impacts of climate change. To do this, it wants to integrate the national and European networks of major cities invested in these areas to draw inspiration from their expertise and exchange on good practices, innovative projects or citizen mobilization.

For a coherent public childhood policy

Before a final adoption of this plan, scheduled for the end of 2021, the strategic objectives and thematic axes as well as the consultation process put in place have received the approval of the municipal council.

What is PEDT?

The territorial educational project (PEDT) formalizes an approach – in a partnership dynamic – allowing voluntary local authorities to offer each child a coherent and quality educational path, before, during and after school. It is a question of organizing, while respecting everyone's skills, the complementarity of educational time (school, extracurricular and extracurricular), to allow the necessary educational and pedagogical continuity for children, and greater involvement of families. PEDT's ambition is to make all the arrangements consistent in consultation with all the players in the educational community, and in particular around popular education. The Educational Project must notably take into account the socio-economic and demographic specificities of each territory by reaffirming the right to education for all as a fundamental right of the child and the citizen.

The revision of the PEDT

From the end of 2020, the municipality wished to initiate a revision of this PEDT so that it is in line with the objectives of the new term of office. As part of a deliberation voted on February 8, 2021, the municipality proposed the launch of reflection workshops to open this project through the widest possible consultation. From June to October 2021, a phase of consultation with local actors was initiated to define the educational orientations. It was followed by a phase of 6 workshops to define the themes of the new PEDT, including one with a group of children who were able to express their expectations. The formalization and finalization of the new PEDT and the associated action plan , is planned, by the end of 2021, in consultation with actors in the field (particularly neighborhood associations and social centers) and sector town halls, but also with funders, such as National Education and the Family Allowance Fund.

The strategic objectives of the new PEDT

The priority thematic axes desired by the City of Marseille

A new method of consultation and governance

The City of Marseille wishes to make the PEDT a tool for dialogue, consultation and convergence of objectives and practices for all players involved in the educational field.

The PEDT thus aims to:

Consult the full report n°1 relating to the PEDT

Marseille "Child friendly city"

The City of Marseille reaffirms its desire to support and promote the rights of the child. Thus, by the deliberation of November 23, 2020 (n°20/0559/ECSS), the City of Marseille – within the framework of the delegation "The Place of the child in the City" – displayed its ambition to become a partner of Unicef ​​France and becoming a "Child-Friendly City". Unicef ​​France and the Association of Mayors of France have in fact created a national and international network of cities that are committed – under the aegis of the International Convention on Rights of the Child (CIDE) – to take initiatives and promote actions facilitating the integration of children and young people into the life of the city, as well as encouraging their openness to the world. This integration requires the development of a municipal action plan for children and young people for the period from 2020 to 2026.

The 2020-2026 municipal action plan for children and young people

This action plan affirms our strong ambition for the children and young people of our city. It is established according to 4 axes, in which the municipal action is then declined:

The objective is to harmonize all public policies in favor of children and young people for a better dynamic of exchange and sharing. of themes: Early Childhood as well as Education and Youth, of course, but also Health, Solidarity and Inclusion, Prevention, Social Action, the Sea, Sport, Cultural Action, Parks and Gardens, the Municipal Police, the Environment and the Living Environment.

What actions?

Each action, even modest, will contribute to the interest of the child, to the respect of these rights to consider him as a citizen in the making. Here are a few as examples:

Each action has been or will be the subject of a specific report to the municipal council. Through this partnership with Unicef, the city of Marseilles affirms its ambition to reduce school inequalities and rethink popular education, in terms of justice and narrowly for the small and small Marseilles. The City will go beyond the existing systems, by raising the awareness of the referring agents to the rights of the child, everywhere in its municipal facilities. The City's application was accepted during the Unicef ​​France allocation committee, on May 27, 2021, thus making Marseille a "Child-Friendly City", partner of Unicef ​​France. Like more than 240 cities and intermunicipalities in France, the city of Marseille will join the network of large cities already labeled such as Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Nice or Nantes. The adoption of the 2020-2026 municipal action plan for children and young people to which it is committed will now make it possible to definitively validate this integration into the network.

Consult the full report N°7 relating to the adoption of the convention of the Unicef ​​charter "Child-friendly city" and the "Municipal action plan 2020-2026 for children and young people

Since 2019, three educational areas in Marseille have benefited from the "Educational Cities" label: Marseille Centre-Ville, Marseille Malpassé Corot and Marseille Nord Littoral. This 3-year program – launched by the Ministry of National Education and Youth, the Ministry of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with local authorities and the Ministry of Towns and Housing – aims to unite the educational community around concrete projects to contribute to the educational success of children and young people aged 0 to 25. By providing additional resources but also new modes of coordination, this program makes it possible to develop varied and cross-cutting projects to structure educational networks, develop educational innovation, coordinate educational care, develop health prevention, fight against dropping out of school, facilitating professional integration and mobility, promoting cultural openness, etc.

A new wave of labeling was launched by the State in June 2021.

The City of Marseille wishes to submit a new application for the labeling of a fourth educational city: the educational city Marseille les Docks in the 2nd and 3rd arrondissements.Located in a priority district of the City Policy, this territory concentrates social and major economic issues: 51% of the population of the district lives below the national poverty line, the proportion of people aged 15 and over who have not attended school without a diploma or below the baccalaureate reaches 69%, i.e. 12 points less than that of the municipal average, the employment rate of 15-64 year olds in the district is lower than that of all of the City's priority districts. consistency and geographical continuity with the Marseille Centre-Ville Educational City, labeled in 2019.

The "Educational Cities" system, whose primary objective is to mobilize and structure all the actors of the educational community, the participation of the Aix-Marseille Provence Metropolis, the Bouches-du-Rhône Department and the Provence-Alpes-Côte Region d'Azur are solicited. The municipal council therefore consulted and authorized the City of Marseille to submit the application files with a view to obtaining, for this territory, the "Educational City" label for 3 years, from 2022 to 2024.

Consult the full report n°87 relating to the candidacy of the educational city "Marseille les Docks"

Urban planning and sustainable development

The City of Marseille is committed to a voluntary approach to the development of a greener, more united and more sustainable city in a strong context of climatic and health crises which are upsetting our ways of living, of making society and impact the act of build. To build differently, to build better, awareness is collective in France as in the rest of the world. The objective to be achieved must be shared and encourages to go beyond the only regulatory framework of the Local Intermunicipal Urban Plan (PLUi) by a more qualitative and detailed approach. This is the reason why the City took the initiative of establish - in a participatory approach - the Sustainable Construction Charter and thus constitute the common reference for all stakeholders, actors of promotion, construction and civil society. The document was co-developed during the first half of 2021 – as part of workshops led by the Deputy Mayor in charge of Town Planning and the Harmonious Development of the city, the municipal services as well as the consulting architect appointed by the City.Two workshops with representative professional and institutional bodies:

A workshop with associative actors: Leave concrete, Companions builders, Habitat and humanism, Abbé Pierre Foundation, Saint Mitre collective, Committee of old Marseille, Confederation of CIQs, Association scratches sole-Roucas-Pieds, City center for all, Union Calanques -Littoral, France Nature Environment 13. A concluding plenary workshop extended beyond the participants in the workshops.

These workshops thus brought together many elected officials and participants, reflecting the collective interest shown in the approach and were the subject of content-rich, constructive and fruitful debates. They were supplemented by multiple written contributions integrated into the iterative elaboration of the final document. buildings, heritage and common goods, adaptation in the sizing of projects, quality of private and collective spaces and taking into account the future of buildings. Each issue was then translated into concrete commitments making it possible to assess its scope:​

1. Be part of a process of dialogue with stakeholders and residents and residents.
2. Respect the implementation context of a project.
3. Make use of what is already there and enhance the natural and built existing through the project.
4. Develop social, programmatic and usage diversity.
5. Make a suitable density.
6. Promote revegetation and biodiversity in projects.
7. Propose common spaces to share to strengthen neighborhood relations.
8. Designing Mediterranean bioclimatic urban planning and architecture.
9. Promote high quality housing.
10. Build scalable and flexible projects.

The Charter is not a regulatory tool but reflects an ambition for the territory of Marseilles, for the years to come. The Charter is thus part of a long-term process of improving the quality of constructions on the territory of the City from Marseille. It proposes a method and establishes a partnership dialogue. Thus, regular monitoring committees will be organized to assess its implementation and incorporate feedback. Workshops will also be organised, involving construction partners, but also civil society through the associations that have contributed to the development of this charter. The City of Marseille thus wishes, through this method of governance, to make the Sustainable Construction Charter an evolving and living document.

Read the full report no. 35 on the Sustainable Construction Charter

Consult the charter

Faced with persistent tensions in the rental market, the City of Marseille – like other large cities such as Paris, Lyon, Montpellier, Nice or Bordeaux – wishes to affirm its desire to take lasting action against the under-occupation of certain housing units, by increasing to 60% the rate of increase of the housing tax on second homes.

The objective of this tax system is to encourage owners, who are liable for this tax, to put properties not assigned to the main residence back on the market, in areas characterized by marked difficulties in accessing housing.

Relief is provided in the following cases for owners who make a claim:

As a reminder, municipalities located in urban areas of more than 50,000 inhabitants, and presenting a strong imbalance between supply and demand for housing, may institute, in accordance with article 1407 ter of the General Tax Code, an increase the housing tax contribution on secondary residences. Since 2017, this rate can be increased to 60%.

Consult the full report n°101 relating to the change in the tax rate for second homes

For a greener and more sustainable city

In an increasingly worrying context of climate emergency, Marseille wishes to affirm its positioning as a city committed to ecological transition as well as its ambition to be among the exemplary and driving European cities for accelerating the decarbonization of territories, strengthening their capacity to adapt to the inevitable impacts of climate change and preserve the environment.

Thus, the city of Marseille, a Mediterranean city particularly vulnerable to climate change, wishes to apply to be among the "100 climate-neutral cities by 2030" which will be designated by the European Commission to initiate and guide systemic transformation. of all territories towards the carbon neutrality hoped for by 2050. In order to assert itself among the pilots of this dynamic, our city will have to act with determination over the coming years on all the levers of the transition, by mobilizing all its vital forces, its inhabitants and all the local players.

To meet this challenge, Marseille must become more integrated into city networks. The Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, on the one hand, and the Green Cities Agreement, on the other hand, were specially created to network local authorities and technically support their efforts in favor of ecological transition. Founded in Europe in 2008, the Convention now brings together more than 10,000 local authorities (largest international network of local authorities mobilized on the challenge of climate change), mainly cities. Coming from around fifty different countries, they voluntarily undertake to implement local policies to combat climate change, adapt to its effects and reduce energy poverty. In Europe, the Convention relies in particular on the Eurocities network, of which Marseille is a member, and benefits from the leading role of the European Union in environmental concerns.

By joining the Covenant, cities commit to submit – within two years of the date of the decision to join – a Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SEACP) outlining the key actions plans to undertake to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Adapted to local realities, this plan should include a baseline emissions inventory to track mitigation measures and an assessment of climate risks and vulnerabilities.

For its part, the Green Cities Agreement is an initiative – launched by the European Commission in October 2020 – with a view to forming a movement of cities mobilized for the preservation of the environment. By signing the Green Cities Accord, mayors pledge to take further action to make their cities greener, cleaner and more sustainable. This agreement focuses on 5 main objectives:

Benefiting from support built on the model of the Convention, the signatory cities of the Green Cities Agreement must commit within two years to:

The Green Cities Agreement must materialize our city's desire to commit to ecological transition. To guarantee the success of this ambition, and in addition to its own efforts, Marseille must be able to count on the support of the various authorities. public, national, regional and local (according to their respective fields of competence) so that they can:

Joining the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy as well as the Green Cities Agreement will enable Marseille to:

Consult the full report n°26 relating to the adherence to the "Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy" as well as to the "Green Cities Agreement"