A strange spectacle offered to the leaders of the data center project, that of this Monday, December 9 in the evening at the community of communes of Pays Noyonnais (CCPN). Sébastien Van Moere and Jérôme Lecerf were present to attend the vote on the sale of land on the CCPN’s Inovia Campus to launch their major project. A project worth 16 million euros by the end of 2026.
For this first public session following the withdrawal of delegations from the President, the CCPN provided itself with endless advice during which nothing was spared. In particular the tedious and endless readings of each deliberation.
It was Patrick Deguise, former president of the CCPN who, after some deliberations, put the subject on the table, analyzing the attitude of the executive as revenge for the withdrawal of delegations from President Sandrine Dauchelle: “I understand that you want to tickle us by reading down to the semicolons, but you play this game, clearly shows the contempt you have for this assembly. And the former mayor then mentioned the fate reserved for the sale deliberation, listed in… 38th position. “They are carrying out (H&DC, Editor’s note) an extraordinary project, it would have been a good idea for these people who come from far away to be given priority,” said the elected official. As was the case, for example, with the intervention at the start of the session by a speaker from the MSA. “It’s scandalous,” he rages. Response from the president: “Do you have another controversy?”
Fabrice Foucher, mayor of Maucourt, follows up a little later: “I understand that you want to drag it out, but it’s disrespectful for the investors, it’s also disrespectful towards the agents, all that, simply for us bother…”. The community delegate promised to want to ensure that “the agents do not exceed twelve hours of working hours”.
The debate shifted a little later, as the evening dragged on, to the responsibility for the evening’s situation. The mayor of Noyon and president considering that this was the result of the withdrawal of her delegations. The mayors believed that it was entirely possible to go much faster. As an aside, during one of the numerous session suspensions, an elected official said: “It is not the withdrawal of delegations which forces the vice-presidents to stupidly read the entirety of the deliberations, and several times (ten very exactly, Editor’s note) to read deliberations identical to the comma. The president was reminded that by not yet having – she still has a few days to do so – added to the agenda of a community council the questions relating to the transfer of its delegations, the president is depriving the assembly of a more efficient operating procedure.
The president’s response does not say either, why, in fact, to have subjected to the torture of the examination of insignificant points to the leaders of a project which it is said could get the Pays Noyonnais out of the rut financial situation in which it finds itself. In their seats, in the assembly, the project leaders sometimes showed polite impatience. But that was not the main thing for them.
16 million by 2027
The main thing for the H&DC representatives was to see the first stage of the project validated. At half past midnight, with a unanimous vote, it was done. The operation – barring non-compliance with the numerous usual clauses, on one side or the other – should bring, in two years, 16 million euros to the Pays Noyonnais for the sale of 160,000 m² and twelve buildings.
Within two months and fifteen days, H&DC will pay 850,000 euros to Pays Noyonnais for the purchase of the first lot consisting of two buildings and 8,080 m². Before December 31, 2025, sale of 8,800 m² and three other buildings will bring in, for this lot 2, 880,000 euros. Finally, no later than October 31, 2026, lot 3 will include the majority of the land and buildings for a remainder of 14.270 million.
After the general applause which followed the sale, the two promoters of the project stood up to thank the elected officials at length, showing their relief. Not only to see the session finally come to an end, but also a plebiscite vote. “Unanimously, it’s another symbol because it wasn’t won,” they commented.
Not won in fact, knowing, we learned on the day of this session, that the man through whom the file arrived, the one who put his contacts at the service of the CCPN, Arnaud de Belenet, former director of development, was officially fired on November 20.
Increase in canteen, occupational medicine: when rural mayors challenge the president’s projects
The majority changed sides at the CCPN, as we know. The mayors thus decided to throw in the trash several deliberations proposed by President Sandrine Dauchelle.
The first, and this will be a relief for the most modest families: the price of the canteen will not change. While it was planned, for the first time since 2018, to increase the price of a single meal (by around 50 cents), the mayors decided to refuse the president her increase. Rural mayors denounced a political choice. Pascal Dollé, former 1st vice-president, made this clear to the president by recalling that at the last meeting Sandrine Dauchelle had caused the community to lose 80,000 euros to the benefit of the municipalities (and especially Noyon).
No more occupational health on January 1, unless…
Another file, that of occupational medicine. The Pays Noyonnais, which has been working with the SMIN for years, has just denounced the agreement which binds it to the Noyonnais occupational medicine service. “A project which will put many doctors and employees out of business to the detriment of a Compiégnoise society,” commented several elected officials. Opposed to the project, the mayor of Guiscard Thibault Delavenne made it clear to Sandrine Dauchelle that the assembly was going to oppose her choice to work with the PRESOA company. The rural mayors said it half-heartedly: would the Pays Noyonnais be angry at the way in which the SMIN doctors listen to more and more Noyonnais agents complaining of mistreatment?
The principle of an agreement with PRESOA was therefore rejected. The Pays Noyonnais having denounced its agreement with the SMIN at the last minute, it will find itself on January 1 without service for agents. Unless the Pays Noyonnais revotes a new convention before then.
