If the elected officials of Monchy-Saint-Eloi still had some hopes, it was a failure. The municipality will remain well in the community of communes of Liancourtois / Vallée Dorée. The prefect of Oise Jean-Marie Caillaud officially refused the secession of Monchy. This wanted to integrate the Creil-Sud-Oise agglomeration from 2025.
But even if the State representative in the department has the last word, he only followed the recommendations of the departmental commission for intercommunal cooperation (CDCI). It is a consultative body responsible for ruling on, among other things, this type of situation. And the college made up of elected officials issued a negative opinion at the beginning of December.
“Adverse tax consequences”
In his decree published Tuesday December 31, 2024, the prefect provides some justifications for his refusal. For Jean-Marie Caillaud, “a withdrawal taking effect from January 1, 2025 does not allow the Liancourtois community of municipalities to properly reorganize its services taking into account the impacts on staff.” Argument already put forward by Olivier Ferreira, president of the said intermunicipal structure.
The senior official continues: “This withdrawal also leads to unfavorable tax consequences for some local taxpayers as well as financial losses impacting the gross savings of the community of communes of Liancourtois.”
Target 2027?
However, Jean-Marie Caillaud also specifies that the requests made by Alain Boucher, the mayor of Monchy, “also concern other municipalities”. And he refers the question to “a global approach to revising the departmental intermunicipal cooperation plan which will be initiated in 2025.”
Did Alain Boucher foresee it? Before the decision, he explained “that we had been offered either 2025 or 2027.” A refusal today does not result in a refusal tomorrow, once this revision of the intermunicipal cooperation plan has begun.
We will have to live together
In the meantime, the elected officials of Monchy are therefore obliged to cohabit with their dear counterparts, among others, from Laigneville, Cauffry, Liancourt, Verderonne, Labruyère, Mogneville, Bailleval, Rosoy and even Rantigny. The atmosphere at community council meetings remains unchanged for a year. The elected officials of Monchy systematically abstain from each vote, to express their desire to leave the community of commune.
Why this divorce: the mayor of Monchy-Saint-Eloi remained a tenacious defender of a project – now aborted – for an activity zone in Mogneville with a logistics building. Once this file was rejected, Alain Boucher then resigned as vice-president within Vallée Dorée.
