In Haute-Garonne, the deep and unanimous anger of mayors and elected officers | EUROtoday

Around 100 tricolor scarves roamed the paved courtyard of the Haute-Garonne prefecture in Toulouse on Thursday, November 7, late within the morning. It was neither a commemoration nor a significant working assembly, however the expression of a “deep anger, a feeling of injustice” that the mayors and elected officers of the division really feel, in keeping with Karine Traval-Michelet, socialist mayor of Colomiers, 40,000 inhabitants, vice-president of Toulouse Métropole and member of the workplace of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF).

Mayors, municipal councilors but in addition elected officers from the departmental council and the Occitanie area got here to protest “against the measures announced in the finance bill which provides for 11 billion euros in savings [selon le calcul réalisé par l’AMF] on the community budget ». For Christophe Lubac (Génération. s), the mayor of Ramonville, south of Toulouse, “the measures announced will have disastrous consequences in the territories, since the State is imposing its colossal public deficit on communities”.

According to the elected official, These current choices will signify a monetary effort of 480,000 euros between now and the tip of his mandate, or the equal of twelve to 14 civil servant positions. In Colomiers, the affect of presidency measures is estimated at round 3 million euros, on a municipal price range of round 70 million euros. The trigger is the drop within the total working allocation, the rise in levies from the particular social safety scheme liable for old-age insurance coverage for territorial civil servants and the rise in direct State deductions from municipal funds.

“For ten years, we have lost 80% of our revenue”

“We are good managers, and we just ask for consideration, for dialogue”provides Karine Traval-Michelet. Like round thirty mayors of the division, she had determined to shut the doorways of her city corridor throughout at the present time of mobilization. In Léguevin, in western Toulouse, the mayor, Etienne Cardeilhac-Pugens, will “stop all urban projects for 2025. We are already tightening our belts, I don’t want to become just a manager”he laments. In his commune, a gendarmerie was to be constructed, however the undertaking was deserted attributable to lack of funds. “As a outcome, I’m obliged to rent municipal cops, in response to demand from the inhabitants. We will not final lengthy like this.”believes this unlabelled elected official.

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