The opposition municipal councilor demands in particular “real estate reinvestment by the City of Dijon to reduce the now excessive rent burden”.
With a budget of 14 million euros, EPCAPA, which manages the Begonias and the Voltaire Gardens, ended the year 2024 with a deficit of 2 million euros. The ARS had to inject 800,000 euros.
Press release from Agir pour Dijon of January 17, 2025:
Since February 2024, Agir pour Dijon has been warning about the worrying situation of the city’s EHPADs, given numerous dysfunctions in the care of residents, managerial problems and a catastrophic financial situation.
We have continued to reiterate our alerts, through an oral question during the municipal council of March 25, 2024, or even an article in the Dijon Mag of April 2024.
Laurence Gerbet met the management of EPCAPA twice – in April, then in September 2024 – without any improvement in the situation but on the contrary a constant deterioration.
We requested an emergency audit by the ARS, which was carried out in May and which confirmed the seriousness of the situation.
-We deeply regret that the municipality waited a year since our press release to finally recognize the extent of the difficulties faced by the city’s EHPADs and from which residents, both at Jardins Voltaire and at Les Bégonias, suffer, in a letter addressed to the families and staff, dated January 16, 2025.
Unfortunately, this letter does not provide any serious answers.
The first measure is to add an administrative level to that of the EHPADs themselves and the public establishment for the reception of elderly people of the City of Dijon (EPCAPA), by requesting a national public establishment, EPNAK. However, multiplying the layers of decision-makers will only dilute responsibilities and slow down actions. This decision is all the more surprising as we discovered that the president of EPNAK since 2018 is none other than Madame Tenenbaum, already a member of the board of directors of EPCAPA as a municipal councilor appointed by the mayor of Dijon.
On a financial level, the envelope of 800,000 euros released exceptionally at the end of 2024 by the ARS in no way resolves the structural cash flow problem of an establishment whose deficit now amounts to nearly 2 million euros in 2024.
We demand that lasting and radical solutions be taken as soon as possible:
⁃ the change of the current management which has been incompetent for years
⁃ real estate reinvestment in the city of Dijon to reduce the rent burden that has become excessive.
Act for Dijon
Emmanuel BICHOT, President
Laurence GERBET, vice-president
[email protected]
www.agirpourdijon.fr
