Friday, November 29, at around 6 p.m., was for the mayor, Jean-Pierre Bréthous, and his municipal council, the culmination of two years of renovation and restoration of the town hall, located in the heart of this commune of 641 inhabitants, in the old presbytery since 1993. Among the guests, Dominique Peurière, sub-prefect, Monique Lubin, senator, Agathe Bourretère, departmental councilor, Jean-Luc Lafenêtre, president of the Community of Communes of the Grenadois Country, and the mayors of the CCPG, without forgetting the active forces and many inhabitants of the commune.
Once the ribbon was cut and the renovated buildings had been visited, the first magistrate opened the ball of interventions: “This building bringing together the town hall and canteen deserved this restoration, and I would like to thank all the craftsmen, most of them from the Grenadian region, for the quality of their work. The main mission of the town hall is to support the daily life of its citizens; it is the link and bastion of State services anchored in its territory. It is our common home at the service of all, for all.”
Representative Xavier Fortinon, president of the Departmental Council, Agathe Bourretère, agreed: “you have a special relationship with your territory and the citizens who live there”. Jean-Luc Lafenêtre, for his part, underlined, as president of the CCPG, “all the happiness I have in coming to Saint-Maurice”, recalling that he had worn out the benches of the college with his friend Jean-Pierre Bréthous .
Controlled budget
“There are, in this canton, a certain number of jewels, and Saint-Maurice is one of them,” noted Monique Lubin. Regarding the situation in the country, she painted “a rather gloomy picture of the budgetary situation, with, as a consequence, a few lean years ahead”.
The primary concern of the municipality was to control the budget. To do this, the financing of this work was divided into three distinct tranches. The year 2023 was devoted first of all to the energy renovation of the town hall and the school canteen for an amount of 35,432.62 euros excluding tax, subsidized at 59.41% with self-financing of 19,979 euros. Then it was the turn of the rehabilitation of the town hall secretariat for 7,287.99 euros excluding tax, including 5,755.59 euros of subsidy (78.97%) and self-financing of 2,666.40 euros.
For this year, the restoration and renovation of the town hall building and the school canteen were on the program, work amounting to 38,888.51 euros excluding tax. The Competition Fund, DETR and CRTE, will finance them to the tune of 19,193.54 euros or 49.36% of the invoice. The total amount of subsidies for all the work amounts to almost 60%. A significant figure at present.
The conclusion came from sub-prefect Dominique Peurière: “it is a great joy to come and inaugurate these carefully renovated places, essential to the life of the commune, the beating heart of your community. Bravo for your commitment.”
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