In an 80-page thematic report, the Court of Auditors analyzes the reconstruction of Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin after the passage of Irma.
Published on July 10, the thematic report of the Court of Auditors compares the progress of reconstruction in Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin following the passage of Irma in September 2017. It notes that the reconstruction in Saint-Barthélemy is well advanced and notes a significant effort to adapt buildings and equipment. But in Saint-Martin, "the restoration of destroyed buildings is still very partial". It underlines the weakness of the community's management base which has led it to be able to obtain only € 25 million out of the € 46 million allocated by the European Union solidarity fund (EUSF) "taking into account, in particular a faulty public order process ”. And argues that the completion of the reconstruction supposes that several challenges that weigh above all on the community and to a lesser extent on the State and its operators are met.
The Court and the territorial chambers of accounts of Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin thus formulate 8 recommendations such as strengthening local capacities for project management and public ordering, applying the prevention plan against natural risks by ensuring compliance, as done in Saint-Barthélemy, the construction rules to reduce the risks of repetition of the effects of this type of disaster, better mobilize the fiscal resources of the community and maintain the technical support of the State.
"The Collectivity generally shares most of the findings appearing in the report and is in line with the recommendations set out" indicated Thursday, July 15 Daniel Gibbs in the introduction of the territorial council. Recommendations of which he specified that most were already being implemented "as part of the reorganization of the Collectivity [...] that we finally dared to undertake by entrusting it to our DGS and the teams that surround it" specified- he.
The Collectivity is thus satisfied that the Court recognizes on the one hand "that the financial and legal interests of the COM [have] been harmed, in particular as regards the duration of the 'pressing emergency'" and on the other hand "A perfectible implication of the State […] in particular as regards the field, crucial and strategic of the taxation". The COM regrets that the report did not insist more "on the non-respect by the government, of the commitments made in November 2017 relating to the review of the compensation of the charges", and that there was no calculation credits intended for the reconstruction of Saint-Martin and actually used up.
Finally, the COM has expressed an expectation: the drafting of a thematic report on the action and interventions of the State in Saint-Martin by 2023-2024, i.e. at the end of the recovery plan currently in place. implemented to “verify whether the commitments made by the Head of State in September 2017 and 2018 with regard to Saint-Martinois have been kept”.
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