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The departmental councilor of Deux-Rives Jean-Michel Baylet made, Thursday evening, November 14, 2024, his third progress update on the recovery plan that he put in place at the request of the president of the departmental council of Tarn-et- Garonne, Michel Weill, for the period 2022-2028. Between ambition and prudence.
It is a transparency exercise that has been in place for three years, the importance of which continues year after year. The departmental councilor of Deux-Rives (Tarn-et-Garonne), Jean-Michel Baylet, provided on Thursday November 14, 2024 the third stage update of the 2022-2028 Recovery Plan for which he was entrusted by the president of the departmental council Michel Weill in 2021.
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And even if “we lost around twenty people present because of the match between Agen and Montauban”, smiled the former minister, most of the mayors and representatives of intercommunities moved to the hall of the departmental council.
The Department, “first financial partner of municipalities”
Because the Department is, as he recalled, “the first financial partner for the projects that you carry out in your municipalities. With 24 million euros in subsidies to municipalities and public intermunicipal cooperation establishments (EPCI), we are well ahead of the others”, insisted the Valencian councilor.
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Four other statistics were put forward by Jean-Michel Baylet to demonstrate the proactive action of the majority in place. First, that Tarn-et-Garonne has become the third department of Occitanie in terms of investment subsidies to municipalities per inhabitant.
The debt increased from 202 to 176 million in three years
“In reality, we are the first because Ariège and Lozère which precede us have additional support since they are in the Mountain zone,” he underlined. Then, that with this recovery plan, “our subsidies to municipalities per inhabitant are 37% higher than the national average. Our total investment per inhabitant – that is to say the work of the departmental council and subsidies to municipalities and EPCI – exceeds the national average by 10%.”
Why a recovery plan?
After his arrival at the head of the Department, Michel Weill entrusted Jean-Michel Baylet with the task of imagining a recovery plan, a sort of roadmap to build the main actions of the 2022-2028 mandate after the Covid period, in order to to respond to the future challenge of the community.
Among them, demographic growth (from 268,000 inhabitants in 2024 to 325,000 according to INSEE in 2050) but also numerous upheavals to come: arrival of the LGV, Lacourt-Saint-Pierre interchange, the construction of a new Montauban hospital, search for solutions for irrigation, departmental land development, etc.
This Recovery Plan is estimated at 400 million euros with a territorial component estimated at 160 million and an investment component for 240 million, distributed between roads (120), colleges (42), various investments (56) and unforeseen events (22 ).
Finally, “I would like to emphasize the fact that since 2021, we have been getting out of debt. The debt went from 202 million euros to 176 million between the start of 2021 and the end of 2023,” insisted the elected official from Deux-Rives.
“We will continue to act”
Despite the bad news from the government's finance bill (PLF) for 2025, Jean-Michel Baylet warned: “We will continue to act. We will do it responsibly. By the end of 2024, we will have achieved in three years almost the half of the plan clearly for the next two years, we will slow down, because of the State's withdrawals. However, this should not impact you because it also corresponds to the investment cycle of the municipalities which follows the cycle. electoral. But we are working to adapt the trajectory, in view of the government's bad announcements. However, you knew better than anyone, investing is working for the future and we are very attached to it”, concluded Jean. -Michel Baylet.
