“A meeting for the attention of municipal councilors, which we try to organize regularly every year, in order to provide them with details and inform them more precisely of the situation of the community, on a financial level among other things, and of what This is the case with his commitments and his projects, he says. It’s always an opportunity for questions and discussions too. This is important for the majority who are not in the body or in its advice.”
Human resources, land use planning, housing, sport, childhood-youth, culture, tourism, economic development, etc. policy by policy, these advisors were entitled to a non-exhaustive but sufficiently precise summary of what has been and will be implemented. work during the good hour and a half that this meeting lasted, which many mayors also attended.
“We can allocate €10 million per year to finance these operations.”
When it comes to actions and projects, Grand Cognac is not stingy, it is true that it has a solid financial capacity which offers it long-term visibility to carry them out successfully, as Jérôme Sourisseau recalled in preamble.
“We can thus allocate €10M per year to finance these operations,” he indicates, “thanks in particular to a debt capacity of 3 years (the alert is for 12 years), and to a self-financing capacity (Caf ) from 8 to 9%. A more than satisfactory ratio for a community of this size, the only one in Charente to pay a community solidarity grant to its member municipalities. From €3,388,862 in 2024.
Waste collection under management at 1is January
Among the 2024 achievements, we can note, among others, aid for the improvement of private housing, for more than €2.3 million budgeted over 5 years, as part of a housing policy including The agglomeration has made one of its great causes. Support for culture, notably the overhaul of the Cognac art and history museum, the opening of the Bouteville castle, or even “Tumulte”, the 3D attraction on dinosaurs in Angeac-Charente. On the economic development side, the ongoing rehabilitation of the wasteland of the former Cognac hospital.
In the projects box, for the main ones, the childhood-youth sector will see the start of work next year on the creation of a crèche in Châteauneuf, or the extension of the micro-crèche in Salles-d'Angles, that of sport, the renovation of the pools of the Châteauneuf swimming pool, the changing rooms of the Cognac Sports Park, and the creation of a 3X3 basketball court at Vauzelles de Châteaubernard.
Culture will also be well served with the launch of the major cultural center project in Cognac, the first works of which are planned for the summer. In terms of transport and mobility, a new bus depot in Cognac and the deployment, in the territory, of thirteen sites capable of accommodating two to five electric charging stations, are also on the program of actions for a year 2025 which will also be that of a great first for the agglomeration: the resumption of management of the collection of household and similar waste on 1is January.
The health sector has not been forgotten with the expansion of the local health contract (CLS) and the creation of a new aid system to combat medical desertification.
