The La Créole community water and sanitation authority, serving the municipalities of Saint-Paul and Trois-Bassins, adopted a austerity plan on March 27, noting significant reductions in operating expenses, or 3,5 million euros in savings.
This decision follows the report of the Regional Chamber of Accounts which was many irregularities and breaches within the Régie. "This strategic revitalization and operational efficiency plan of Creole aims to rationalize operating expenses, to optimize resources and improve self -financing capacity as well as the treasury of the structure ", explains Christian Papoussamy, Its director since July 2022. Optimization of personnel charges, Deletion of function cars, Optimization of service vehicle fleet, Reduction of general costs, Redesign of the recovery process, restructuring of revenue management and full recovery of invoicing for participation in the financing of collective sanitation are on the “slimming” menu of La Créole for the coming years. Two days earlier, the Western Territory had voted an additional allocation of 6 million euros to help the authority deal with these cash flow problems, sum which will have to be repaid from 2030.
