The Lanester municipal council reviewed the budgetary guidelines for 2025, Thursday December 19, 2024. The report was established on data from the 2025 finance bill which no longer exists. “This is part of the art of divination. It is a prudent and realistic budget, indicates Mayor Gilles Carréric. In this context, we maintain a stable investment capacity of €5.2 million.”
Municipal tax rates maintained
The main lines of the budget are the maintenance of municipal tax rates for the year 2025 (the bases will nevertheless increase by 2.3% according to the Progressives), the increase in municipal rates limited to 2%, the increase of 2% of the amount of subsidies paid to the associative world. The municipality also decides to maintain debt reduction of €500,000. Furthermore, it extends to the year 2025 the measures taken in autumn 2022, as part of the energy resilience plan. The mayor’s great concern concerns the operating budget, in particular the contribution, to the tune of €2 million over four years, for the downward revision of the VAT compensation fund, the increase of twelve points in the contribution rate to the national pension fund for civil servants.
2025 debt impacted according to the opposition
For the opposition group the Progressives, “the operating budget should increase with reduced revenue. This will lead to very degraded management savings. The net self-financing capacity displayed remains at its lowest for 2025, which can legitimately worry, the recourse to borrowing remains significant and will impact the level of debt at the end of 2025. The planned investment amount, if it is compliant in terms of multiple investment plans, is however insufficient to cope with the aging of our heritage, the maintenance of our roads and the development of soft mobility.”
David Megel, ex-RN, does not perceive “caution in the lines of this budget, I see a linear budget, similar to the previous ones. We would have liked a budget closer to the risks of the future, a more prudent budget, a budget closer to the realities that we will probably face.” Alexandre Scheuer (France Insoumise) notes “the maintenance of tax rates. The quality of public service remains a priority.”
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