what the City’s 2025 budget figures reveal

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155 million euros: this is the 2025 budget of the city of Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine) voted yesterday evening, Thursday December 19, 2024, by the municipal council. This is 4 million more than last year. “The hallmark of this budget is to stay the course despite the uncertainties,” summarized finance assistant Nicolas Belloir. “It is a healthy, rigorous and precise budget which will allow us to adapt to national decisions and the effort required of communities,” adds Mayor Gilles Lurton.

Good news for the people of Saint-Malo: the City will not touch taxes. If you are upset because your taxes are still increasing, you will have to look for the “culprit” elsewhere.

81 millions

The City spends 81 million euros each year on its operations. More than half of this sum (48 million) concerns “personnel costs”. That is to say, what the City pays its 1,100 agents. “This expense increases by 1.87 million euros. This is the consequence of national decisions but also of discussions with our social partners which we fully assume,” explains Nicolas Belloir.

20 millions

Still in terms of operating expenses, general expenses are the second big check signed by the City after that of personnel expenses. They represent 20.5 million euros. “These general charges decrease by 0.5%,” specifies Nicolas Belloir. “We are asking staff to make efforts to control expenses without harming the notion of public service.”

36 millions

36.5 million euros more precisely: this is the sum that will be invested by the City in 2025. 7 million will be used to acquire the buildings of the former intra-muros merchant marine school to install the future maritime museum . 4.9 million euros will be injected into urban development (place Anne-de-Bretagne in Rocabey, Alsace-gare district, etc.), 3.2 million euros into roads (including 1.1 million euros for greenways), 2.9 million euros in sports equipment (projects for a gymnasium in Paramé and a sports hall in La Découverte), 1.8 million for the repair of the slipway Rochebonne battered by storms, 1.6 million for the maintenance of the ramparts, 1.3 million for green spaces… Or even 850,000 euros to renew part of the equipment allocated to urban cleanliness.

4,5 millions

This is the total amount of subsidies paid by the City to its associations. It increases by 273,000 euros. But, warns Mayor Gilles Lurton, “the City will not be able to compensate for the disengagement of other communities” which, like the Department, strangled by social spending, has already announced a drastic reduction in its aid to associations. Note that a Saint-Malo association, considering that its finances allowed it not to misuse public funds, did not request a subsidy. This is the Quelmer neighborhood committee.

4.2 million euros

This is what the tax on real estate sales, called “transfer duties” or notary fees, should bring to the City. A stable amount which could suggest that Saint-Malo is escaping the real estate crisis. “It should be remembered that this amount was 20% higher two years ago,” puts Nicolas Belloir, the city's chief financier, into perspective.

1,7 million

This is, during the construction of this budget, the estimate that was made of the “amount of effort” requested from the local community by the Barnier government's finance bill. But this government has since fallen. And “this estimate of 1.7 million euros is therefore no longer relevant,” whispered Gilles Lurton. The fact remains “that we all know that we will have to participate in the effort required,” continued Nicolas Belloir, forced to move forward without visibility. “This is an unprecedented situation which requires us to build a budget as we go along, which we can adjust when the finance law is passed.”

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