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The Tarn-et-Garonne departmental council voted, Monday December 16, 2024, for an exceptional subsidy of 480,000 euros in favor of the renovation of the Sapiac stadium, completed during the summer of 2024.
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A seven million euro project excluding tax
But there are also times when the rugby or political pack pushes in the same direction at the Tarn-et-Garonne departmental council. This is the case for the Sapiac stadium, the home where US Montauban, currently seventh in Pro D2, plays.
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In the off-season, after a trying year 2023-2024 and closed by a last minute stay in Narbonne (20-19) at the beginning of June 2024, the USM saw its enclosure transformed. The project led by the municipality finally brought the stadium into the 21ste century. In the project worth nearly seven million euros (excluding tax), the departmental council took its part during the plenary session of December 16.
An “exceptional” grant
Indeed, twenty-eight of the thirty members of the departmental assembly (excluding Ghislain Descazeaux and Liliane Morvan who abstained) voted in favor of report no. 27 which provided for the Department to allocate an “exceptional subsidy” of 480,000 euros for the site, excluding the equipment contract signed with the municipality of Montauban.
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“This subsidy will be paid in annual installments in accordance with the budgetary and financial regulations in force,” indicates the report presented by Aveyron-Lère councilor Cédric Vayssières. “We can underline the generosity of the Department with the town of Montauban… which does not always reciprocate,” insisted the departmental councilor of Deux-Rives Jean-Michel Baylet.
