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The convention proposing the establishment of the new municipality of Asse-et-Boiron
was drafted in August 2014. The proposed new municipality would be the merger of
the municipalities of Arnex-sur-Nyon,
Borex,
Chéserex,
Crassier,
Eysins,
Gingins,
Grens,
La Rippe, and
Signy-Avenex, all part of
Nyon district.
The General and Municipal Councils will discuss the
proposal on 9 October 2014; if accepted, the proposal will the be submitted in
January 2015 to people's vote. The new municipality would then be established on
1 January 2017.
The new municipality will be named for two rivers that
limit it, the Asse and the Boiron. The name was selected after a public call for
proposals that yielded more than 100 submissions. The Asse (9.7 km) is famous
for the plain it formed near Nyon, which is the home of Paléo Festival.Nyon, the
biggest outdoors music festival in Switzerland.
The convention states
that the seat of the municipality will be located at Chéserex, with secondary
seats in Crassier and Eysins. The municipality will be divided into
"arrondissements" to ensure a political representation to each former
municipality. The convention includes the future arms of the municipality, which
will be, undoubtedly, the source if a square banner of arms used as the
municipal flag. The arms are made of 3 x 3 squares, in turn blue and yellow,
with a black merlette in each yellow squares, and two white wavy bends. The
squares represent the nine municipalities merged to form Asse-et-Boiron. The
wavy stripes represent the two rivers that are the municipality's namesake. The
merlettes are taken from the arms of the Portes family, which built the school
located between Borex and Crassier.
http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/la-cote/future-commune-asse-boiron-trouve-armoiries/story/13091397
- La Tribune de Genève, 22 August 2014
http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/la-cote/nouvelle-commune-asseetboiron-englobera-neuf-villages/story/11703228
- La Tribune de Genève, 4 May 2014
Ivan Sache, 9 September 2014