Anne Le Gagne's team very critical

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As with every municipal council, Anne le Gagne's team increased its interventions during the vote on the 2025 budget of the City of Saint-Malo, yesterday evening, Thursday December 19.

In turn, the leader of “Saint-Malo at the Heart of Possibilities”, Victor Richard and Sophie Beaudout questioned the majority on the current files.

Requests for details on the state of finances, detailed cost of the future maritime museum project, deployment of optical fiber, large stadium project… The questions continued throughout the evening.

“This 2025 budget lacks vision and balance,” Anne Le Gagne ended up summarizing in a press release sent to the local press at the end of the session.

“This expenditure is inconsistent with the needs of the people of Falkland”

“This budget has significant shortcomings in terms of priorities, balance and preparation for future challenges.”

And the “Saint-Malo at the Heart of Possibilities” team clarified the essence of its thinking:

These expenses are inconsistent with the needs of the people of Falkland. The City is spending 9.27 million euros on its maritime museum project, or more than 20% of total equipment expenditure. Why invest so much in an inaccessible intra-muros museum when schools, nurseries and sustainable mobility, heritage are awaiting additional resources? And what can we say about the coherence of this expenditure with regard to the expenditure incurred to study the regulation of tourist flows and the congestion of intra-muros to the detriment of flows which would allow increased attendance of our city? Or large-scale sports equipment announced in January 2022 which would allow our great teams such as the XV Corsaire to benefit from worthy training conditions?

Anne Le Gagne's team also points to “taxation as the only source of inspiration” and regrets “that no participatory budget allows the people of Saint-Malo to directly choose certain priority projects”.

“A green budget that remains symbolic”

Criticism continues in the area of ​​the environment and the climate emergency.

We are presented with a green budget which remains symbolic. The amounts allocated to concrete projects remain modest: the figures presented are largely insufficient in the face of the climate emergency and citizens' expectations in terms of the environment and the risk of submersion.

Finally, the minority wonders “about the medium and long-term financial impacts of the decision to stop CCAS home help services to clear the debt: the transfer of the Home Help and Support Service (SAAD) will cost 471,000 euros on January 1, 2025. The outsourcing of the SAAD will generate costs until the 45 professionals retire, which will extend over the next 20 years (400,000 euros per year). This point requires real increased concern to guarantee the sustainability of the city's social actions. »

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