Communauté de communes CAPAVENIR

CAPAVENIR
Former communauté de communes
Country	France
Region	Lorraine
Department	Vosges
No. of communes	8
Established	1 January 2005
Disbanded	31 December 2012
Seat	Thaon-les-Vosges
Area	69.71 km2 (26.92 sq mi)

The Communauté de communes CAPAVENIR is a French former administrative association of communes in the Vosges département of eastern France and in the region of Lorraine. It was created in December 2004 and had its administrative offices at Thaon-les-Vosges. It was disbanded on 31 December 2012 and merged into the new Communauté d'agglomération d'Épinal on 1 January 2013.

Name

Most French commune groupings of this type are named after the region in which they are located or after the largest town (usually also the administrative centre) in the territory. Capavenir is, however, an aspirational (and almost untranslatable) descriptive name evoking the future ("l'avenir") as a destination. The name is sometimes written in upper case letters as CAPAVENIR.

Composition

The Communauté de communes comprised the following communes:

• Thaon-les-Vosges (seat)
• Chavelot
• Frizon
• Gigney
• Girmont
• Mazeley
• Nomexy
• Oncourt

Administration

The Communauté de communes was administered by a community council composed of 21 members and 21 substitutes, representative of member communes, and designated by their respective municipal councils.

President

List of successive presidents

In office		Name	Party	Capacity	Ref.
Unknown	31 December 2012	Dominique Momon	DVD	Mayor of Thaon-les-Vosges (2009–2020)