Published on November 21, 2024 at 3:47 p.m. / Modified on November 21, 2024 at 5:30 p.m.
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The Yverdon executive presents its plan to turn around the museum’s affairs.
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“It’s crisis after crisis,” summarizes the vice-president of the foundation board.
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Singled out for his management, Marc Atallah says he is surprised by the elements put forward against him.
Two hundred thousand francs, “for a town like Yverdon, it’s not a small sum,” says vice-unionist Carmen Tanner. Especially when, in the long storm that the Maison d’Ailleurs is going through, it adds an additional 70,000 francs in 2022 and 50,000 in 2023. By dint of convulsing, the little science fiction museum is becoming very expensive . The city’s annual subsidy is 610,000 francs.
On Thursday, the municipal (executive), alongside the foundation board and the new director Frédéric Jaccaud – who came from within – presented their plans to turn around the museum’s affairs. The municipality will therefore request a new extraordinary credit of 200,000 francs, intended in part to repay a line of credit opened with the BCV, of 150,000 francs. The museum’s budgetary concerns reached such a point that express borrowing was necessary simply to pay salaries. He is also going through a severe slimming treatment with the abandonment of more than half of the positions. The workforce is now reduced to 3.1 full-time equivalents.
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