Open session
1. Questions asked by municipal councillors.
2. Traffic: permanent amendments to the traffic regulations – temporary regulations – confirmation of temporary regulations – decision.
3. City's finances:
- responses provided by members of the College of Aldermen to the comments submitted;
- examination of tabled amendments and motions, and corresponding votes;
- vote on the amended budget for 2023 and the draft budget for 2024;
- administrative and management accounts for 2022 and foundation accounts – approval;
- statements of planned works – approval.
4. Public institutions placed under municipal supervision:
- Office Social (Social Welfare Office): financial statements 2020 and 2021 – approval;
- Office Social – amended budget for 2023 and draft budget for 2024 – approval;
- Municipal Hospices (Hospices civils): annual financial statements 2019, 2020 and 2021 – approval;
- Municipal hospices: amended budget for 2023 and draft budget for 2024 – approval;
- Fondation Pescatore: annual financial statements 2021 – approval;
- Fondation Jean-Pierre Pescatore: amended budget for 2023 and draft budget for 2024 – approval
5. Agreements: – approval.
6. Work estimate – approval.
- Redevelopment of Rue du Pont in Beggen
- Plans to build two single-family homes at 147, rue de Neudorf in Neudorf
7. Urban development:
- Mopo PAG Iewescht Millen – decision.
- Listing of a group of buildings on the "Dummeldénger Schmelz" site, located along Rue de Beggen and Rue de la Cimenterie, as a national cultural heritage site – opinion.
- Subdivision of land pursuant to Article 29 of the law on municipal planning (loi concernant l'aménagement communal) – decision.
8. Allocation of special grants – decision.
9. Legal affairs: authorisation to initiate legal proceedings – decision.
10. Creation/elimination of positions – decision.
11. Municipal regulations – decision.
- amendment to Articles 45 and 59 of the general regulations on public order and safety (Règlement général de police)
- amendment to Article 5 of the waste management regulations (règlement concernant la gestion des déchets) on putting out and taking in bins on waste collection days
- introduction of new Chapter G-5: Bicycle rentals and repairs (following the takeover of Delta ASBL's activities) – amended version
Closed session
12. Appointment of the members of the Municipal Advisory Committee on Intercultural Living Together.
13. Klimabündnis Lëtzebuerg: appointment of a delegate.
14. CHL: appointment of an alternate member of the Administrative Committee.
15. Office social (Social welfare office): personnel matters – opinion.
16. Fondation J.-P. Pescatore: personnel matters – opinion.
17. Personnel matters – decision.
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Questions asked by municipal councillors
School transport in Ban de Gasperich
Question posed by Christa Brömmel
My question is about the elementary-school-aged children who live on Rue Charles Darwin or Rue Leonardo da Vinci in Ban de Gasperich. These children attend the Gasperich elementary school, which is more than one kilometre away. This is generally considered too long of a walk to get to school, especially for children in Cycle 1. There is no safe bike route or school bus. It is true that AVL line 23 runs along the route between the "Charles Darwin" and "Bei der Auer" stops, but the departure times are not suitable for the children: they would either arrive at school too early (before there is any supervision, which is provided from 7:50) or too late (after 8:00 – that is, after classes start).
Can the College of Aldermen confirm that this is the situation, and are there comparable situations in other districts of the city?
How many children, per school cycle, live in Ban de Gasperich and attend the Gasperich elementary school?
How many children attend another public school for which the City organises school transport, such as the Gaston Thorn international school or the Eis Schoul in Kirchberg?
Is the College of Aldermen planning to implement any solutions that align with the policy of promoting active travel and public transport, such as adjusting the schedule of AVL line 23 – so the bus arrives at "Bei der Auer" between 7:45 and 7:50 – or running a minibus service in the morning?
What criteria does the City apply when it organises school transport – namely, in terms of the length of the route, the children's special needs and the option to use public transport?
Response provided by Alderman Paul Galles
Generally speaking, other than the regular public transport services, the City does not organise special bus services for elementary schools within the districts. Children walk – some of them with the Walking Bus (Pedibus) – bike, or take public transport to school. There are cases where schools are more than one kilometre away.
Currently, 27 elementary-school-aged children live on Rue Charles Darwin (15 children in Cycle 1 and 12 in Cycles 2–4), and 6 live on Rue Leonardo Da Vinci) (4 in Cycle 1 and 2 in Cycles 2–4).
Until now, line 23 departed at 7:32 and 7:52 from the "Charles Darwin" stop and arrived at the "Al Gaasperech" stop at 7:36 and 7:56, respectively. These departure times, which were in effect since 15 July 2023 and were maintained in the new schedule that took effect on 10 December, were therefore in fact suitable for the children who attend the Gasperich elementary school. However, the bus is often late due to traffic.
As a result, it was decided to modify the schedule slightly. It is generally hard to change the line 23 schedule for a couple of reasons: first, users need to be able to make their connections with other lines, and second, two buses cannot cross in the are known as Stadtgrund because the street is too narrow. Nevertheless, we were able to change the departure times so that buses depart two minutes earlier. This means that the bus now departs from Rue Demy Schlechter at 7:22 instead of 7:24, and at 7:42 instead of 7:44, and therefore also arrives at the Ban de Gasperich stop two minutes earlier.
Children who live in Ban de Gasperich can also take line 1 of the Walking Bus, which operates in Gasperich.
The City organises shuttle buses for the Gaston Thorn and Eis Schoul schools. In theory, the pupils attending these schools are picked up in front of the public elementary schools in the districts in question, unless they live very far away from this school, or if the bus line runs along their route to school. There are other exceptions that apply to children with special needs. Also, all of the City's buses are accessible for people with reduced mobility.
No other requests have been submitted to the City regarding school transport in Ban de Gasperich. If the measures that have been taken are not sufficient, the last resort would be to have supervision start a little earlier before classes, but this would involve making a major change to how the schools operate.
Article 13, paragraph 3 of the Municipal Law establishes that each member of the Municipal Council, acting in their individual capacity, shall enjoy the right of initiative to add to the agenda drawn up by the College of Aldermen one or more proposals that they wish to submit to the Municipal Council.
Such proposals must be submitted to the Mayor in the form of a written reasoned request at least three days before the meeting of the Municipal Council.
