Angèle Dormoy, recently elected head of the CCISM, spoke to the press yesterday morning. She presented the main lines of her mandate.
“First of all, it is necessary for me to emphasize an important element. This is by no means an Interim Presidency as I have often heard, pending the next elections in 2019, but I was elected in July 2014 by business leaders who have trusted the training that we presented to them, and on February 15 by the CCISM elected officials, in accordance with article 10 of the statutes. These elected officials deemed me able to pursue the commitments of the CCISM following the resignation of Jean ARNELL.
The new office is made up of:
President: Angela DORMOY
1st vice-president: Fred erb
2nd vice-president: Dorvan COCKS
3nd vice-president: Jean-Marc DUFETEL
Members : BULENT GULAY: President of the METIMER association
Bernice RICHARDSON: President of the GuestHouses Association
Franck FLEMING: President of the construction association
Wudy WOOL: Craftsman Baker Pastry Chef
Before approaching our roadmap step by step, I would like to tell you that the objective of the CCISM is to restructure, to draw on its last strengths, the resources necessary for its reconstruction.
Cyclone IRMA left many companies and structures in a situation of extreme precariousness, and the CCISM was not spared. Even so that the structural difficulties existed well before the hurricane.
Our objective is to reconstruct a vision of the CCISM, a vision which will allow each sector to structure itself, to acquire the means, to train itself to stimulate the economic revival necessary for the reconstruction of our territory.
As you know, our mandate plan aims to
- improve KNOWLEDGE of the local economy,
- the expansion of our SUPPORT offer for companies throughout their life cycle (CREATION, DEVELOPMENT-DIFFICULTY-TRANSMISSION),
- and the ANIMATION of the economic fabric.
Thus, the action program evolves each year to adapt our intervention to the needs of companies, to the economic context and according to human and financial means. Our last General Assembly made it possible to bring out new orientations for the support of Post Irma companies.
We have established an end-of-term plan, with priorities that are divided into several major axes:
1. SUPPORT: support for the BACKUP of businesses and the maintenance of employment
The impact of Hurricane IRMA on our already fragile economy is well established. We must support the self-employed, who have been left behind by the emergency aid systems deployed on our territory. Measures to support the cash flow of our companies through the cancellation of social debts on June 30, 2017 and a staggering of tax charges are to be studied.
• Support for self-employed workers as part of the restart assistance scheme (less than 300 companies out of 7.234 were able to benefit from it)
• Suspension of pending procedures and establishment of moratoria
2. INFORM AND TRAIN: Support for the different sectors
All sectors were impacted by the hurricane, and a sectoral diagnostic should be carried out in order to assess the impact and offer support for the implementation of measures for the economic recovery of the territory. I am talking about setting up workshops and sectoral and cross-functional training in the areas of Customer Service, Marketing, Digital and Development Finance
• Agriculture-Fishing (intelligent farming and fishing processing) - dossier managed by VP Dorvan COCKS
• Handicrafts (professionalization and partnerships) dossier managed by Wudy LAINEZ
• Trade (facades and window decoration) dossier managed by Fred ERB
• Water sports dossier managed by Bulent GULAY
• Tourism (branding and digital marketing) dossier managed by myself and Bernice Richardson in collaboration with the Tourist Office and the Port of Galisbay. As such, I thank the President of the Tourist Office for our last working meetings and I wish to continue this close collaboration.
• Transport (taxi, Internet and payment by credit card) file managed by Gérard France and Georges Illidge
3. ANIMATE: Open the room to its nationals
As of the next General Assembly, I will propose to elected officials to associate five Technical Advisers and four new associate members in order to initiate the opening of our general assembly to specialists.
Every quarter, I will formally bring together the Presidents of employers' organizations and merchant associations. Moreover, we will continue to assist in the structuring of associations as was the case for the association of fishermen, ADEPPAL, Orleans Business Association and the future Association of GuestsHouses.
I thank Mrs. Bernice Richardson, member of the office for her work with small hoteliers.
Finally, as of this month of March 2018 we will be holding thematic conferences every month at the Maison des Entreprises on subjects as varied as digital data protection as the quality of the sheets of our roofs.
4. SEARCH FOR PARTNERSHIPS: the emergence of projects in unexploited sectors: for example the fishing port
5. MODERNIZE THE ADMINISTRATION of the room:
E-CCI, for its online service offer; CCI-DATA / Opening of our database and collection of information, a social window for companies and a training center.
Support for investments, information, Training, professionalization of Crafts and strengthening of the Small Business Act presented in June 2015 are all points on which the CCISM intends to continue to make the voice of entrepreneurs heard and defend their interests. .
However, our action to save existing businesses, support businesses throughout their life cycle by developing new services and stimulating the economic fabric is constrained by the limitation of our financial resources. The sustainability of the room and the inseparable missions as provided for in article L 710 of the Commercial Code are conditioned by 2 anchor points:
Continue negotiations with the supervisory bodies to ensure the financial sustainability of the CCISM. These are tripartite negotiations to lay the foundations for this sustainability:
- A balancing subsidy for the 2017 budget
- Budget of 250K € until June 2018
- Long-term lease for the provision of the business house which will be signed as soon as possible
- Force of proposal for tax reform
- Funding of CCISM missions from an additional budget
- Approval of the statutes of the CCISM at the next territorial council
- Repair of the house of companies, these repairs are in progress
A. Creating the foundations for a sustainable financial and structural situation for the CCISM
It is imperative that the Collectivité of Saint-Martin financially supports the CCISM, particularly in the short term (June 2018) and in a sustainable manner after the measures taken in the tax reform. An additional budget is essential in order to finance the business support missions of the CCISM.
My Vice-President, Jean Marc DUFETEL will be in charge of this file.
B. Renovation of the statutes
The revision of the statutes of the Chamber is a crucial point that the new President intends to put on the agenda of the next territorial council. This reform of the statutes aims in particular to align our organization with that of the consular chambers at national level and to clarify our internal functioning by the establishment of internal regulations.
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