COMPANY. Between the arrival of the Olympic Flame on Friday June 28, the two rounds of the legislative elections and Musical’été (among other events), the City and its agents are in high demand. Still nothing to panic the community.
“The announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly by Emmanuel Macron on June 9 put town halls under pressure. They must organize early legislative elections in just 20 days, generating significant budgetary costs. » This is what the Gazette des communes writes in a paper published online on June 19, 2024. The media specializing in communities evokes “a particularly complex equation, not only on the financial level”.
“The services are ready”
And Saint-Dizier then? Are the legislative elections, stuck between two key events – the passage and arrival of the Olympic Flame on Friday June 28 and the Musical’été festival on July 5, 6 and 7, putting the town in trouble? First, logistically, not so much. If the Civil Status service will necessarily be called upon by the surprise elections, the holding of another, European, vote a few days earlier has optimized things with panels already installed. It’s already that.
The City mentions “a considerable job for City officials, it’s a year of preparation for the Flame, follow-up meetings every month. But the services are ready, everything is set to the millimeter,” listing the blocked streets and parking lots, the transformed spaces like the Jard, which is used for the Flame and then for Musical’été. “Everything we did for the flame, we keep it for Musical’été. With the exceptional year we are having, we have strengthened the teams a little with a few fixed-term contracts and temporary workers, and we have the support of private individuals for security and sound installations,” specifies the City, which also welcomes the support from the State and the Department.
Financially, on the other hand, there will inevitably be upheavals. “The elections are the little extra surprise, which represents a cost for the city with all the overtime. A financial and human cost is the price of democracy,” continues the mayor’s office, which welcomes “the strong mobilization of our agents; what is remarkable in the public apparatus in the broad sense is this collective capacity to organize events and take strong action. If we manage to succeed in all this, it is thanks to the mobilization of everyone. »
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