Michel Benhamou, a new local president for Users

Sylvie, Michel et Pierre, une équipe soudée aux Usagers de Boutonnet.

Celui qui habite le quartier depuis 1962 prend la suite de Christine Olivier, fondatrice décédée au printemps. De nouveaux membres actifs sont arrivés pour poursuivre les actions de l’association.

"Défendre l’intérêt des habitants de Boutonnet pour une belle qualité de vie". This has been the aim of the Boutonnet Users Association* since its creation in 2019, confirms its new president, Michel Benhamou.

“We want to continue the work of Christine Olivier, the founder who died in the spring, he says. Our first fight was to keep the post office in Bouisson Bertrand”. Unfortunately lost.

But Michel, 63, who has been involved since the beginning, remains motivated to act. With a strong public interest, this ambulance driver with the Group for the Integration of Physically Disabled People (GIPHP) has lived in Boutonnet since 1962.

“I am very attached to my neighborhood. I went to school there and I played football in Lunaret. Here, we all know each other. The bond between the old and the young is easy. The mix is ​​proportionate. We live well together”.

It is therefore with a team reinforced by new active members that the young president shares the activity and the animation of the association. Pierre Monnier, Sylvie Josserand, Nanéé Chahinian put their energy and their skills so that “the neighborhood remains a village with everything nearby”.

Pierre, equipped with his white cane, wishes to represent the visually impaired. “I risk falling on my face at every hole, the danger is real, he testifies. I just spent three months in the hospital because of a damaged sidewalk”.

“Traffic plan and stadium layout”

According to Michel, the association's actions focus primarily on structural developments of general interest. “With other associations, we participate in the development of projects. For example, the traffic plan. But also, the development of the future Lieutenant-Normand stadium. We are waiting for the problem of stray dogs at Babut Park to be resolved. We would like an enclosure like at Sainte-Odile Park.”

As for minor inconveniences, “we provide information, Sylvie emphasizes. For example, a bollard had been bent on Rue Moquin-Tandon. After my report on the Montpellier au quotidien website, the City intervened very quickly.” The association is calling on volunteers who would like to come and complete the team “with ideas”, smiles Sylvie. “And above all who love the neighborhood!”, concludes Michel, in love with Boutonnet.

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