The presidents of the three comcoms of the living area presented the main axes of 2021.
Exercise sets the tone for the New Year. This Friday, January 22, the three presidents of the Cœur d’Hérault comcoms presented their wishes for 2021.
Side by side, Jean-Luc Requi, president of the community of communes (CC) Lodévois and Larzac, Jean-François Soto, both president of the CC Vallée et l’Hérault and the Pays Cœur d’Hérault, and Claude Revel , president of the Clermontais CC, unveiled the main lines of a decisive year for the territory.
The Scot, a “backbone”
A near future, inevitably conditioned by the health crisis but which sees the emergence, in line of sight, the end of the Scot (Scheme of territorial coherence). A strategic planning tool for the catchment area: the Heart of Hérault in this case.
Among the challenges to be taken up – support for the recovery and ecological transition plan, preparation of new European programs and the state-region contract, mobility plan, forestry charter, etc. – therefore appear the Scot objective and reflections on pooling. across the country: tourism, health, economy …
In particular, the idea of creating a tourist office common to the three territories, and as many major sites, a symbolic project of a spirit of “convergence”.
So this Scot, which Jean-François Soto assimilates to a “spine” of the Heart of Hérault and its “85,000 inhabitants”, Will it be the precursor of an even closer union between the three entities, or even in the long term, of a possible merger?
“Setting a date is premature”
“We have set ourselves the goal of finishing the reflection on Scotch this year, I hope we will keep it, it is not easy”, tempers Jean-Luc Requi. As for saying that this organization would prefigure a more important merger, “it is going a little fast in work.”
“It would be premature to say today that there will be a rapprochement. As it would be premature to say, today, that there will not be …”, measure Claude Revel.
Putting the future Scot in perspective in the heart of a department where intercos are organized, Jean-François Soto believes that “Fixing a date is premature. But the sense of history certainly leads us to move towards a globalized vision of a Country in the heart of Hérault, even if, in fact, there are 77 municipalities …”
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