THE FAILURE OF METROPOLIZATION CAUSES MANY VICTIMS

The Grenoble/Métropole city gas plant is getting worse every day. Grenoble residents are referred from one to the other on most subjects. Citizens exhaust themselves with phone calls and emails and end up giving up.

« I started, a month and a half ago, by calling the town hall. Who, after a long wait, gave me the number of the Metropolis. So I called the Metro who asked me to send an email. Then who then informed me that it was up to the town hall. Who did they forward my email to…” Bernard Coquet, an Isère resident, tells Jean-Benoit Vigny (DL of 10/12/24) about Clos d'Or, Alliés-Alpins district. For a citizen who persists, how many give up?

AN OPEN AIR CLOAQUE

At Clos D'or a parking lot has been closed since the camp was evacuated. The local residents obviously breathe, even if it has become an open cesspool. Neither cleaning the space nor the surrounding areas. A Grenoble classic that spares no neighborhood.

But the situation of this tenement is representative of the permanent city/Metro imbroglio. Piolle had first ceded road authority (and personnel) to the Metro. Then, since January 1, he took it back, leaving the staff transferred to the Metro, who no longer know what to do with it, and recreating a service to the city! One of the explanations for the explosion in city/Metro operating expenses.

THE CITY WANTS TO TAKE BACK A GOOD THAT IT HAS GIVEN

The Clos d'Or car park has also been transferred to the Métropole. The municipality wants to take it back. “It is still public domain managed by Grenoble Alpes Métropole. The City of Grenoble wishes to acquire this property and must appoint a surveyor to allow the transfer” explains Jean-Benoit Vigny (DL of 10/12/24). Note this “ the city” because no elected official ever responds by name in these cases. They always hide so that a participant is never clearly identified. Which would allow citizens to have a contact person. Bureaucracy is a local method of avoiding accountability.

THE VISIONARIES OF 2080

This disorganization due to Piollesques' whims produces disastrous effects in daily functioning. The Red/Greens are peremptory, anticipate 2080 perfectly and in detail, but at the time of giving the Clos D'Or to the Metropolis, they did not imagine having to manage it and must take it back very quickly in complicated conditions.

AN IMBROGLIO OF IRRESPONSIBILITY

No one knows who is responsible for what anymore. Not even public services. These dysfunctions are everywhere. Urban cleanliness is shared between the city and the Metro: trash cans are metropolitan, municipal bins, recycling centers in the former, bulky items on the roadway in the latter, etc. The trees planted by the Metropolis are watered by it. Those of the communes by each of them.

A.CARIGNON REQUESTS SINGLE GOVERNANCE BY SUBJECT

At the Metropolitan Council, Alain Carignon asked at a minimum that a single governance be established on cleanliness in order to coordinate, make efficient and rationalize. The Vice-President, Lionel Coiffard (Greens/LFI), a Piollist elected official, replied that he agreed in principle! Obviously nothing happened.

A CALAMITY IN TERMS OF COST and EFFECTIVENESS

The multiplication of duplicates is a calamity in terms of cost and efficiency. There is a town planning department in the city and the Metropolis, which is responsible for this, the same for businesses. Concerning the candelabra which illuminate public spaces, it seems that they have shared competence. One has to repair the pole and the other the bulb. Obviously seeing all the electrical cabinets open and damaged, Eric Piolle and Christophe Ferrari have not yet been able to agree for 10 years as to who is responsible for maintenance.

10% ADDITIONAL STAFF COMPARED TO TRANSFERS FROM COMMUNITIES

The Regional Chamber of Auditors pointed out in its report the fact that the creation of the Metropolis had generated 10% additional staff compared to the staff transferred and that the wage bill of the municipalities had not decreased.

METROPOLISATION: A HUGE PIOLLE/FERRARI FAILURE

Metropolisation is one of the great failures of Eric Piolle and Christophe Ferrari. It was not conducted during the period of their political idyll (2014/2020). It has become a war zone since 2020. The result is multiple duplications, accumulations, piling up of services which paralyze action and prohibit citizens from intervening.

During a number of deliberations, Alain Carignon pleads for city/Metropolis pooling, sometimes even calling for a real merger. But each community remains within its own logic. And within each community, each activity develops its own functioning without generating any synergy.

€450,000 TO SUPPORT THINKING ON SOCIAL FOOD SECURITY

For example, on Monday at the Municipal Council, Eric Piolle will inform that Antoine Back, Deputy (Greens/LFI) is committing… €450,000 to support the reflection on the creation of food social security. In a financially exhausted city.

RATIONALIZATION OF OPERATING EXPENSES

The total operating expenses of Grenoble and Métropole is €720 million. The rationalization of these and the dynamic management of common heritage is the primary source of savings according to the opposition group. The latter points out at every opportunity how to achieve these savings.

GREAT INCOMPETENCE AND GREAT LAZINESS

Behind the peremptory declarations of these elected officials hides great incompetence and great intellectual laziness. The reproduction of past patterns leads to this asphyxiation. The example of Clos d’Or is one among others. But hasn't the 10 hectare land, known as Allibert avenue Esmonin, which has belonged to the community for 15 years, remained a vast urban wasteland, a place for dumping garbage for all these years? Who will say the cost of such immobilization for so long?

15 months before the municipal elections where the fate of the Metropolis will also be at stake, it is time to put the citizen at the heart of public action. The organization must be designed based on the service to be provided and not to align itself with the vague concepts of a few elected officials.

THINK THE EXPENSE FROM THE SERVICE TO BE PROVIDED

In the first of the large cities in France for taxes, expenditure must be prioritized on the basis of this priority. In terms of operation and investment. it involves a central city and a Metropolis which merge all common services in order to rationalize them and make savings. The plan presented by Alain Carignon and the opposition group is clear on this subject.

It is up to Grenoble residents who see the damage to draw the consequences.