Last City Council of the year 2020 and last battles between majority and oppositions before the end of year celebrations and the traditional truce for confectioners. Let’s talk about budgets …
« This is my 19th budget as mayor but the first of this term. Debt reduction, expenditure control, priority for investments, lower tax rates… But this golden number is not always easy to achieve. Two new axes emerge in 2021 to support activity through investment as part of the recovery plan and solidarity in favor of associations and traders. We know that this health crisis will give rise to an economic and therefore social crisis that risks being severe … »Warns Mayor Jean-Paul Fournier.
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After the presentation of the budget orientation report (ROB) which was held on November 21, the City Council had to decide on the vote of the initial budget of the main budget of the City.
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The initial budget of a community is the major act by which the expenses and revenues of the year are planned, allowing the implementation of public policies decided by the municipality. It fixes the appropriation envelopes enabling expenditure to be incurred during the financial year. It determines the expected revenues, in particular in terms of grants and taxation. It allows the majority to apply the policy they have decided.
More investment
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Thus, the main budget of the City is balanced at 315,526,714.93 euros in expenditure and income (operation 236,097,137.93 and investment 79,429,577). But the general balance of budgets is 336,179,727 euros. The level of investment is higher.
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The outstanding debt on the main budget will amount to 182 million euros as of 12/31/2020 compared to 223 million euros in 2016, i.e. a decrease in the outstanding amount of 18%. This allows the City to maintain a strong investment for its 2021 budget with 22 million euros of provisional borrowing, while preserving its ability to stabilize its debt at a moderate level (which remains below the capital repayment). The average debt rate is 2.85% over an average life of six years and five months.
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69.5 million euros will be invested for 2021, including nearly 24 million euros for urban development (against ten million for culture and eight for education). As a reminder, the ARNU will be invested up to 11 million euros. For Pascal Gourdel, Finance Assistant, “ The need is to continue the effort to control operating costs because this allows us to maintain the level of self-financing necessary for the realization of our projects. This budget is structured around the city’s priority actions in terms of town planning, education, city development, security, animation of local life and national and international impact. »
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« On the question of revenue, you must have anticipated a drop in revenue attributable to the decline in activity linked to COVID. Did you estimate him? Why are the eight million euros linked to the sale of the Costières stadium not listed, if it is sold in 2021? The investments of the Palais des congrès are in the Culture chapter, like last year… why? Does this give the impression of a large culture budget, when half of it would be consumed by the convention center? 500,000 additional study costs for the Conservatory, where are we on this file? The choices you make do not respond to the urgencies of the moment, nor to credible anticipations of the future … we will vote against »Notes Vincent Bouget, opposition from the Nîmes citizen list to the Left. The centrist group of progressives voted in favor.
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