From the start, its director, Olivier Solari, was challenged, both for his managerial and professional abilities, both internally and outside the walls of the agency. In addition, numerous conflicts arose between the latter and his deputy director, Emmanuelle Thenot. For a very young agency, an audit of working conditions even had to be launched in order to calm things down. Despite everything, files have moved forward. A note on seasonal rentals, another on the social real estate agency, proposals for the development of Arue, Mahina, Bora Bora among others.
Last July, the agency found itself continuing its missions, but without direction. Indeed, Olivier Solari ended up packing up to try another overseas adventure in Mayotte. Her deputy director was immediately fired, even though many elected officials interviewed preferred to work with her than with Solari.
The search for a new general director was well underway, but the only successful candidate ultimately declined the offer and since August, it has been the meteorologist Victoire Laurent, the president of the office, who has been steering the boat, despite a professional qualification far removed from the subject.
Even the government seems not to be more interested in ‘Ōpua, despite the payment of a subsidy of 72 million francs in February 2024 and another to come of 88 million francs included in the 2025 budget for the development of the general development plan of French Polynesia. Tevaiti Pomare, who has no longer been Minister of the Economy since August, is still a member of the college of institutions for the government according to the Official Journal. Tahiti Infos of course wanted to ask the question of the future reserved for this structure to the President of the Country, in charge of Planning, but the latter, as usual, did not wish to answer us.
For some elected to the assembly, the establishment would be “brain dead”. The municipalities of Mahina, Pirae and Papeete say they are ready to withdraw from its financing.
“We will wait until 2025, but many of us are wondering about the continued funding of this organization,” confided last Thursday an elected representative of the majority to the assembly of French Polynesia. “Even the DCA [Direction de la construction et de l’aménagement, NDLR] reluctant to work with it. We wonder if we would not be better off closing the structure and asking the agents who are there to come and reinforce the agents of the Urban Planning services who are not numerous enough. We finally wonder if it’s really up to them to study the PGA.”
