Budget 2025. Rennes should lose 11 million euros: in concrete terms, what does that represent?

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Nathalie Appéré, mayor of Rennes, announced that the City’s contribution to the budgetary effort of 5 billion euros requested from communities in the government’s 2025 finance bill would bearound 11 million euros.

“This sum only makes sense if we also add the reduction in intervention creditssuch as the green fund, the Ademe heat fund, which is used to finance operations such as the renovation of the Bréquigny swimming pool, the fund linked to city policies. »

Obviously, it is an extremely powerful financial blow a few weeks before the vote on the budgetary orientation documents, while the framing letters were sent to the services in July and the arbitrations were almost finalized.

To understand this figure, the councilor of the Breton capital tried to engage in a exercise to make it readable what this reduction in funding actually meant for the City. “We sought to take into account the impact on public services. These 11 million euros less is 38% of annual early childhood spending, or the closure of all municipal crèches for 4 months and 2 weeks. »

Frédéric Bourcier, municipal councilor responsible for sports, agrees: “This is, for example, what we devote to a mandate for the renovation of gymnasiums. »

100% of the municipal police budget

But the mayor was not content with making this single comparison. She also affirmed that these 11 million euros corresponded to 47% you budget total de l’action sociale, or 6 months and 3 weeks of closure of the green spaces service, or it is 52% of the cultural equipment budgeti.e. their closure for 6 months.

11 million euros is more than 100% of the annual budget of the cleaning service or the municipal police.

For the chosen one, these budget cuts represent entire sections of politics of the City. “It’s not a little shock, it’s something we don’t know how to doinsists Nathalie Appéré. Collectively, we will be led to say what our incomprehension is and, if necessary, to make alternative proposals. In terms of possible state revenue, there are things to look at. »

11 million euros represent 2,38 % of the City’s overall budget in 2024 which amounted to 463 million euros.

“There’s no point building facilities if there are no more clubs”

It is also the method that denounces the one who is also general secretary of France Urbaine, the association of metropolises, urban areas and large cities.

“We will have to see the situation of great difficulty that this will cause. I don’t dare imagine the adjustment barriers that all communities will find, like the subsidies to associations. In this case, it will no longer be worth building sports facilities if there are no more sports clubs without the support of communities. »

For Rennes, if these budget cuts were to be repeated in the following years, “these are 20 to 50% of investment programs” which would be directly called into question.

It is a recessive mechanism that has been triggered. We would like to undermine the foundations of democracy a little more than we would otherwise do. These are political choices over the last seven years that have burned the fund. On the one hand, we have the biggest fortunes who have doubled their assets and, on the other, direct cuts to public services.

“Insane budgetary slippage”, “What happened to get to this point?” We are in total ignorance”, “It is a failure and a mistake in terms of financial management, so that no one comes to give us lessons Moreover. Make choices? We made them,” the councilor lets his great anger pass.

And the only city of Rennes is not concerned. Region, Department, Metropolis will also suffer budget cuts: “14.4 million euros for Rennes Métropole. Nursing homes, TER, high schools, all of this adds up. We would like to pave the path of the RN with roses but we would not do otherwise either,” she ends, very bitter.

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