The Grenoble municipal council met for the last time of the year on Monday.
The opportunity for elected officials to vote on the City’s penultimate budget before the 2026 municipal elections.
Balanced thanks to a sharp increase in local taxes (+30%), making Grenoble the first city in its category for the property tax rate, the budget is a continuation of the previous one, postponing difficult decisions after future ones. electoral deadlines.
All the oppositions, in their diversity, severely criticized its presentation as fallacious and the rise in operating expenses and debt which continues.
The proposed budget for 2025 was thus described as “trompe the eye” by Alain Carignon, the leader of the opposition.
For its part, the municipal majority has stuck to the balance of ratios obtained by the massive increase in tax resources, without responding to the city’s future financial trajectory.
The debate will focus on this question because the Metropolis – which has postponed the vote on its budget until March 2025 – is in the same financial situation and the elected environmentalists are also advocating a sharp increase in taxes to deal with it.
These prospects worry part of the middle class and retirees, some of whom have already been forced to leave the city, no longer able to support such a level of local taxes.
The elected environmentalists who aspire to their renewal in Grenoble and have put forward Laurence Ruffin to succeed Eric Piolle will have to respond to these financial issues, which could have a preponderant place during the campaign.
