One and a half year after his arrival in power, the Marseillais spring has almost completely renewed the municipal organization chart and halves its general directions.
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It is a tsunami that took away the high administration of the city of Marseille. A wave from which emerges, eighteen months after the victory of the Spring Marseille to the municipal of 2020, a new organization chart redeemed in its attributions and almost completely renewed human.
“It is an unprecedented reform that I do not think there is the equivalent in another community. A restructuring necessary to reset an administration that was suffering for too long”, the mayor gauge Socialist Benoît Payan, arrived at the controllers in December 2020, after the exchange of his first deputy post with the Ecologist Michèle Rubirola.
Officially launched by a deliberation of the Municipal Council on 8 February 2021, reinforced by a second text validated on 9 July, the renovation of the Marseille High Administration is radical. The Thirteen Deputy General Directorates (DGA) counted by the city during the last term of Jean-Claude Gaudin (Republicans) leave room for seven DGA whose perimeters were largely restructured, concentrating skills.
Only one deputy general direction remains led by the same person: the DGA “protected city” led by the Commander of the Firefighters’ Battalion, the counter-admiral Patrick Augier. A soldier, appointed in collaboration with the state, who has been working very closely with the new Marseille elected officials since the beginning of the health crisis. The other general managers, often former companions of Jean-Claude Gaudin, have been pushed to the exit. “Upon our arrival, we knew that the administrative should be made to start the new political cycle. These positions are the guarantors of the application of the new municipal guidelines. We can not keep friends from Mr. Gaudin and hope for That it goes well, “recognizes Arnaud Drouot, the cabinet director of the new Mayor. “We have some administration that did not understand that the Marseille town hall had changed majority,” said a year ago, in the middle of municipal council, the former senator Samia Ghali.
“They dubbed them” Robespierre “”
At the level of the service directions, the magnitude of the modifications is equally unpublished: “We have gone more than seventy directions to thirty. And all the positions have been questioned”, details Olivia Fortin, operating deployment and transparency of public action. The heads rolled, the services are restructured. “All the directors were tetanized, even those who had not in charge”, testifies to an old municipal administrative machine, upset. The unions saw a brutal hand recovery. “At first, they have been nicknamed” Robespierre “. We can understand the political will of change, but there was need to replace everyone?”, Ask Patrick Réué, Secretary General of FO for Territorial Agents Marseille. His union, the majority in Marseille, has voted against the redesign of DGA at the Technical Committee.
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