DECRYPTION. What is the Tarn-et-Garonne management center used for? "It makes life easier for communities and

Behind the scenes, the political battle rages for the election of the board of directors and the new president of the Tarn-et-Garonne management center. But in the corridors of the institution’s headquarters, located on Boulevard Vincent-Auriol in Montauban, life goes on peacefully.

The director general of the body, Pierre Lorenzo, welcomed The Dispatch in his office on the sidelines of the election to explain the role of this body in the life of the 195 municipalities of Tarn-et-Garonne, the 13 public intercommunal cooperation establishments (EPCI) and, more generally, the 5,000 territorial agents who report to the CDG.

How long has the management center existed?

It was invented by the law of January 1984, when the status of the territorial civil service was created. It is there to guarantee the proper functioning of the city and communities, to make their lives easier, those of their agents and to assist them at the legal level. It is, in a way, the trusted third party of communities and civil servants. Thanks to it, they can benefit from good service at a lower cost in all their daily problems.

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What are its main missions?

Municipalities and intercommunalities with fewer than 350 agents join directly the CDG. In Tarn-et-Garonne, this represents the entire department, simply excluding Montauban, Grand Montauban and the departmental council. The CDG first provides them with recruitment assistance. We connect supply and demand. Then, we organize the entrance exam within the territorial civil service, for categories A, B and C. Finally, we manage the careers of approximately 5,000 agents (3,400 civil servants and 1,300 contract workers), their advancement and their retirement calculation.

There are also optional CDG missions…

The strong point of our CDG is its IT center. It brings together almost a third of our 52 agents today, half of whom are category A or B, a symbol of their expertise. Our IT department takes care of the proper functioning of the software used by the municipalities, manages 185 of the 194 websites of affiliated localities, the email addresses of some 1,800 accounts and helps with the dematerialization of acts such as public contracts, orders or decisions of the mayor. It is also working on cyber security with the recent recruitment of an engineer specializing in the discipline. It also takes into account the subject of artificial intelligence, particularly for the attention of town hall secretaries and elected officials.

How are the areas of action of the CDG decided when these missions are non-obligatory?

From the moment there is a subject that comes up from the base, there are discussions, questions to know if our services should get involved in it. If the response is positive, the project is submitted to the board of directors which validates or rejects the approach. It’s the board of directors who decides whether we go there or not. Among these projects, one experienced a turning point in 2026. For the first time, an official diploma in “territorial administration profession” will be delivered this year to town hall secretaries. It is recognized by the University of Toulouse-I Capitole, thanks in particular to the support of the former prefect Vincent Roberti.