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Piscine Pontoise

Piscine Pontoise (swimming pool, 5th arrondissement): €160k paid by the City in 2020 and 22 Paris Council deliberations about it. The source of each item is given.

Source: Conseil de Paris, Bulletin municipal officiel, opendata.paris.fr, data as of 29 September 2026.

€160k
paid by the City for this place in 2020

The Piscine Pontoise is a swimming pool located at 19 rue de Pontoise in the 5th arrondissement of Paris (France). Wikipedia ↗

One of 225 places · €2.9 B paid by the City

What the City funds here

A contract amount is a ceiling: what was actually paid on it is not published by the City.

At the Conseil de Paris

6 moments chosen from the 22 deliberations about this place.

OCTOBER 2023Delegation awarded to Prestalis; entry price set at €5.20The Council approved the delegation contract awarded to Prestalis effective 1 December, five years after the facility closed.Read the decision ↗
FEBRUARY 2022Restructuring costed at €14.5M; original glass roof replacedThe Council examined the partial restructuring of the pool, put at €14.50 million during the session by deputy mayor Jacques BAUDRIER after "structural problems in the pool basin and surrounding decks" were discovered during work on the glass roof.Read the decision ↗
OCTOBER 2020Delegation ends unrenewed; motion for direct management and the dismissed staffThe delegation granted to S3P ended on 30 June 2020 without being extended: deputy mayor Karim ZIADY explained that a further extension "could not have passed the legality review." According to the mayor of the 5th arrondissement, staff were informed in February 2020 that they would be "either redeployed or laid off"; her motion called for the activity and any staff who wished it to be brought back under direct public management, and failing that (a "fallback amendment"), for the next call for tenders to require the future delegate to take back "the former employees laid off as of 30 June 2020 who wish it, with their former employment contract."Read the decision ↗
FEBRUARY 2019Works budget raised from €3.2M to €5.6M during the sessionAfter the 21 December closure, decided according to deputy mayor Jean-François MARTINS "as a precaution for safety reasons," he announced during the session an operating budget "raised from €3.2 million to €5.6 million including tax" and stated that the other sports facilities' operation would be maintained during the works.Read the decision ↗
DECEMBER 2002Sale of a 249 m² underground plot beneath the pool for €68,750The Council authorized the sale to the Association Diocésaine de Paris of a 249 m² subsurface volume beneath the pool's plot, for €68,750, plus €40,000 for a right of passage and €72,000 for the installation of micropiles; the volume is carved out of the operator's concession.Read the decision ↗
APRIL 1997Pool's public-service delegation approved; opposition calls it a privatizationThe Council authorized the Mayor of Paris to sign a public service delegation agreement for management of the pool: Alain MORELL saw it as "the intensified privatization of sporting activities" and asked for the amount of royalties paid over the previous five years, which rapporteur Dominique CANE did not provide in his reply; he stated that 27 of the 33 public pools in Paris were run under direct public management and that squash and fitness accounted for "more than half of the revenue." The plan was adopted by majority vote, with the Communist group and the Mouvement des citoyens group voting against.Read the decision ↗
2 more moments, 2001–2021
FEBRUARY 2021Project delay revealed; motion for a structural study of the pool basinThe mayor of the 5th arrondissement, Florence BERTHOUT, stated that she had discovered on 16 December 2020 that the works would not be completed "before September 2022 at the earliest" and that the programme only covered the glass roof, without addressing the pool basin or the roofs of the adjacent sports halls; her motion called for an urgent structural study of the pool basin to be launched.Read the decision ↗
DECEMBER 20012002 rates approved, euro-conversion amendment authorizedThe Council approved the individual admission rates applicable from 1 January 2002 and authorized the Mayor to sign an amendment to the delegation agreement, following these rate changes and the conversion of the contract's amounts to euros.Read the decision ↗

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