In 2014, the Collectivity decided to concede the operation and management of the slaughterhouse which it owns, and which is due to open in the coming months. It then launches a call for tenders and the contract will be awarded to Seabat, the company operating the slaughterhouses of Saint-Martin, created especially for this purpose.
The contract was signed on August 7, 2014. The Seabat is a cooperative society of collective interest with the status of a Sarl. Its purpose is the reception of live animals, the slaughter, storage and distribution of pieces of meat (carcasses, half-carcasses, quarter and edible by-products). It ensures its financial operation in two ways: on the one hand, it collects the revenue from its services. To do this, it established a fee schedule which was submitted to elected officials for their opinion. On the other hand, it receives annual financial compensation for constraint of public service from the Collectivity, in the order of 130 euros.
But these revenues are not sufficient to ensure the profitability and therefore the sustainability of the company. This is why the Collectivity wishes to take over the operation of the slaughterhouse in the form of a management body with legal personality and financial autonomy, i.e. a public industrial and commercial establishment (EPIC). “The purpose of this establishment would be to manage and operate the slaughterhouse. He will also have to work on the future of the tool in order to improve its profitability and allow the agricultural sector to develop. The takeover under control will make it possible to compensate for the low revenues generated by the activity, ”Daniel Gibbs explained to the elected representatives of the territorial council during the plenary session on December 17th.
Unanimously, elected officials approved the referral to the local public services advisory commission on the issue. They will then have to vote again for the creation of the said board.
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