Transport service from the European School to the JRC Crèche/Garderie
As some of you may already
know, the transport service for our children going from the European School to
the JRC Crèche/Garderie was in danger of being discontinued this year due to a
lack of budget resources of the Cooperativa Trasporti.
We consider this service as socially
useful and of great value to the JRC (see the note signed by all Ispra Unions) as it contributes to facilitating
the work-life balance of our colleagues and increases the attractiveness of the
JRC Ispra site.
We are happy to inform you
that, also with the contribution of our R&D representative in COPAS (*see
below), an agreement has been reached to use, exceptionally, social
credits normally allocated to social activities and sport clubs to support the
service and guarantee the transport of children to the JRC Ispra
Crèche/Garderie for the school year 2014/2015.
At the same time, we wish to
express our disappointment that the JRC Administration has not yet found
a sustainable means to ensure the continuity of this service for future
years.
We invite once again the JRC
Administration (*see below) to actively initiate discussions with all the
involved stakeholders in order to find a sustainable long-term solution.
* From the minutes of the 4th COPAS
Ispra/Seville meeting 2014 - 30th June 2014:
As requested by DC at the previous COPAS meeting, RK (Ed., Robert Kenny,
R&D) presented further information.
He informed the members that the Cooperative had added this extra bus
two years ago in order to provide a very important service to parents of
children attending the Garderie or otherwise being collected at the Clubhouse.
This service is also socially valuable to the JRC, since it allows parents of
young children to optimise their work-life balance.
RK reported that this service was added by the Cooperative in the
knowledge that it could only be funded from reserves for a short time. Furthermore,
the President of the Cooperative had stated that he had already contacted the
JRC at the end of 2013 to alert them that they would have to stop the service
in July 2014, if a source of financing was not found, but no solution had been
identified. It was noted that the Cooperative has never officially requested
funding from COPAS.
In case COPAS will finance the
service much information will have to be provided, i.e. the accounts of the
cooperative, the bank account and the reasons why the Cooperative cannot afford
to pay anymore. RK had also contacted the PMO in Brussels, which had explained
that as it stands the PMO cannot reimburse the further costs incurred by the
extra bus provided between the school and the Garderie.
The PMO made some unofficial suggestions for a solution which could possibly
allow coverage of this service, but RK did not report details to COPAS as it should
properly be discussed between the Cooperative, PMO and JRC.
RK regrets that it has become urgent and critical for the continuation
of the service that the only solution would seem to be that COPAS agree to
grant the funding with no time left to try to find alternative solutions.
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