“My car is my second office” | EUROtoday

The younger girl takes out a big set of keys, two for every of the 4 city halls she takes care of. That of Sansan – a modest darkish beige constructing from the Eighties which additionally homes the village corridor of this village of 102 inhabitants – consists of two workplaces with fawn tiles: that of the mayor and that of Nathalie Muller, city corridor secretary. She spends half a day there per week. The remainder of his time is shared between the three different villages on this nook of the Gers, underwater on this stormy day in mid-February. Durban, 160 inhabitants, Traversères, 72, and Ornezan, 260 inhabitants. A countryside of cereal lands and second properties.

Once the curtains are open and the heating is on, the thirty-year-old retrieves a phone receiver from a cabinet and activates her pc. No time to waste in the beginning of the week: you need to learn the emails, be certain to relay the alerts from Météo France on the present unhealthy climate and the order prohibiting motion in forest areas issued by the prefecture. On his nook desk, two screens, a stapler and a letter scale. Behind his again, a big printer outputs the letters that the mayor should signal. In her spherical, left-handed handwriting, the 38-year-old municipal agent data in a pocket book the emails that arrived over the weekend: a request for a subsidy for a inexperienced class, a notification of the VAT compensation fund, a summons for the assembly of the intercommunal electrification union, the announcement of the modification of the software program of the departmental hearth and rescue heart… so many recordsdata to be processed earlier than the top of the day. The subsequent day, Nathalie Muller should preserve her everlasting place in Ornézan. Then will come the flip of Durban, and Traversères, which the city corridor secretary will be a part of aboard her white Renault Clio. “My car is my second office.”

A cellphone name makes him lookup from his display: it is the city planning division of the Pays d’Auch, which studies {that a} farmer’s constructing allow has expired. “I will have to explain to him that we have to start the procedure again, this time calling on an architect. And that I make him fill the Cerfa”remarks the municipal official. The mayor, Jacques Sonilhac, pokes his head in and observes him for a second chaining emails and letters. The younger girl, her brown hair tied up in a ponytail in a giant pastel-colored scarf, concentrates on her display whereas chatting. “Since she’s been here, I’ve practically been on vacation. All these relationships with cash flow, procedures and files to do, it’s too heavy for me. And then, there are lots of things I don’t know how to do”admits this 72-year-old former carpenter.

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