Decisions of the Executive Council of October 16, 2025

The executive council is a decision-making body which deliberates on the day-to-day affairs of the Collectivité, ranging from the allocation of subsidies to associations to the allocation of exceptional aid and study grants, to work permits for foreigners, to the use or occupation of land (AOT, building permits, etc.) or even to the exercise of the right of urban pre-emption.

During the Executive Council meeting of October 16, 2025, 14 deliberations were examined.

· Allocation, for the 2025 financial year, of an operating grant in the amount of three hundred and ten thousand euros (310,000.00 euros) to the local mission of Saint-Martin. and approval of a grant agreement with this association.

The Local Mission plays an essential local role in promoting access to employment, training, mobility and independence for young people.

Each year, the Territory provides financial support to this organization through objective-based agreements, in partnership with the State and other relevant institutions. The €310,000 grant will enable the continuation of support activities and national programs (Youth Commitment Contract, Youth Guarantee), as well as funding the association's operating costs and ensuring the continuity of the service provided to Saint-Martin's youth.

- Institutional: respect for the Collectivité 's commitments and consolidation of the partnership with the Local Mission.

- Financial and legal: allocation framed by an objectives agreement and controlled by financial monitoring.

- Social: preventing dropouts, reducing youth unemployment, maintaining salaried jobs within the structure.

- Strategic: contribution to the youth policy, integration and social cohesion of the Collectivité.

The Executive Council of October 16th decides to award the Saint-Martin Local Mission an operating grant of 310,000.00 euros and to approve the Agreement between the Collectivité and the Local Mission for the year 2025.

· Allocation, by the Collectivité, of an additional subsidy in 2025 for the benefit of the Territorial School Works Fund (CTOS)

For the current financial year, the CTOS was notified of a 20% reduction in its subsidy allocated by the Collectivité, thus bringing its amount from €12,780,000 in 2024 to €10,224,000 in 2025.

As a reminder, the Collectivité 's allocation totaled €8,452,360 in 2015 (source: CTC Report, June 2021, p. 14).

This substantial reduction comes in a context marked by:

• persistent and structural inflationary pressure, particularly on food products and transport costs;

• an increase in the number of ration holders in schools;

• and a shortage of qualified labor in the catering and after-school activities sectors.

These cumulative constraints make the execution of a sincere initial budget difficult to envisage without corrective measures affecting the services provided to users and the working conditions of agents.

In order to guarantee budgetary balance and continuity of public service, several avenues of adjustment will be submitted for the assessment of the CTOS Board of Directors, including:

- The cancellation of extracurricular activities on Wednesdays from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

- Non-renewal of contract agents

Economically, inflation linked to the conflict in Ukraine, combined with the territory's double insularity, has led to an average increase of 35% in food expenditure.

Despite efforts to rationalize purchasing and use competitive public procurement, the

Reducing this expenditure item would compromise the quality of meals served to students.

The executive council decides to allocate to the Territorial School Works Fund (CTOS) an additional subsidy of 2,000,000 euros.

· Work permit for the intervention of foreign labor granted to the company

Kormarine Engine Service LLC with the Société Electricité de France (EDF) for the benefit of twelve specialized technical workers, including nine (09) of South Korean nationality, two (2) of American nationality and one (1) of Mexican nationality in one-off maintenance intervention.

As a reminder, since 2007, the Collectivité of Saint-Martin, by virtue of the skills acquired specifically in matters of access to work for foreigners, in accordance with the provisions of article LO 6314-3 of the General Code of Territorial Communities, intervenes in the context of requests for introduction

of foreign labor in the territory of Saint-Martin. In this case, it is a request

entry to Saint-Martin of foreign specialist technicians for a major maintenance operation aimed at enabling EDF to respond without hindrance and without load shedding to the electricity production requirements necessary for the territory of Saint-Martin.

In order to carry out this high-tech operation, it is planned that twelve (12) technical workers

specialists of foreign nationality, from Kormarine Engine Service LLC and Hyundai

Marine Solution, mandated by Hyundai Heavy Industries, is moving to Saint-Martin.

This one-off intervention on the