The brand new head of the sports activities division at work

The brand new head of the Cantonal Sports activities Service has been laborious at work for every week. Sébastien Rytz took workplace on 1^is september. Aged 44, he was appointed to succeed Gilles Jaquet who left his submit final April. An economist by coaching and specialised in sports activities advertising, Sébastien Rytz has primarily labored within the non-public sector. He runs a modestly sized entity with lower than 5 full-time positions.

In recent times, the Cantonal Sports activities Service has significantly diminished its companies. With an working finances of 1.2 million francs, its room for maneuver appears fairly restricted. In a press launch issued on June 30, the Division of Coaching, Digitalization and Sports activities talked about, with the dedication of Sébastien Rytz, the implementation and administration of a brand new cantonal sports activities coverage. The idea nonetheless stays summary. We will already marvel if the function of the Sports activities Division is to advertise the canton by means of main occasions or fairly to place its expertise to the advantage of grassroots sport…, well being sport. Sébastien Rytz feels involved by these two approaches. He additionally clarified that it was not in his service to make sure the group of huge demonstrations, however that he may give impetus to maintain them within the canton.

In recent times, the Cantonal Sports activities Service has diminished the vary of its companies to the inhabitants: it now not organizes summer time camps for younger folks, now not supplies low-cost tools rental for golf equipment and now not presents chalet ski passes for households and different associations. Then again, it ensures the management of the allocation of J+S subsidies; it’s even one in every of his first missions.

As for the distribution of some 2.5 million francs allotted to Neuchâtel sport, and which come from the revenue of the Loterie romande, it’s the duty of an advert hoc fee (LoRo SportNe) chaired by André Duvillard: “We’re in a approach the monetary arm of the Sports activities Division, ”the previous commander of the cantonal police instructed us by phone on Thursday. /mine