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Gabriel Kennedy
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Nov 5, 2024 at 7:11 p.m.
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Determined to reduce the weight of France's debt, Michel Barnier intends to ask local authorities to scale back.
The 2025 finance bill plans to achieve more than 11 million euros savings on the budget of local authorities.
A rally planned for Thursday in front of the prefecture
Since the Prime Minister's announcement, many local elected officials are up in arms against this austerity cure that is coming.
In Toulouse, the mayor (ex-LR) Jean-Luc Moudenc and president of Toulouse Métropole thus calls on the elected representatives of the Métropole to gather in front of the Haute-Garonne prefecture, Thursday November 7, 2024, from 12 p.m. to protest against “an dangerous loss of revenue for local authorities”.
The mayor of Colomiers closes the Town Hall
HAS Colomierssecond most populous city in Haute-Garonne, the mayor (PS), Karine Traval-Michelet announced for her part “the symbolic closure of the Hotel of City this Thursday.” A way for the elected socialist to “protest against this unilateral decision which would call into question the capacity for intervention of many communities and therefore the quality of the public service provided to users”.
“For the City of Colomiers alone, the impact of government measures is estimated at approximately 3 million euros (direct puncture, reduction in the DGF, increase in the CNRACL levy, etc.). Local authorities are well managed, our budgets are voted in balance, we represent 70% of public investment in France… There is absolutely no reason to blame us for budgetary excesses for which only the government must be accountable. It’s quite simply a political and economic mistake,” says Karine Traval-Michelet, who specifies that she will participate in the rally planned for Thursday in Toulouse.
“At my initiative, mayors of the metropolis and other intercommunities will join this movement,” underlines the elected official.
Colomiers town hall closed: practical information
Only the services present at the Town Hall will be closed to the public for the entire day of November 7 but will remain reachable by telephone or email. Face-to-face appointments previously made for this day of November 7 will be maintained and carried out at the Town Hall.
In order not to penalize users of Town Hall services and residents of Colomiers, all of the Town's other services and sites will be open to the public: Leisure center associated with the school (alaé), Citizens' houses, Municipal center for social action and health (CCASS), Jean-Vauchère Nautical Space, Henri Molina White Pavilion…
For any information, the Town Hall services are available to users on: 05 61 15 22 22.
Many town halls closed
The town hall of Colomiers will not be the only one to be closed that day. Within Toulouse Métropole, the mayors of Aussonne, Beauzelle, Brax, Cugnaux, Launaguet, The Union, Mondonville, Pibrac, Saint John, Tournefeuille and of Villeneuve-Tolosane announced the symbolic closure of their Town Hall on Thursday November 7, 2024.
These municipalities in the Metropolis are thus imitating the movement initiated in Muretain, where the 26 town halls in the agglomeration have decided to close their doors this Thursday, November 7, 2024. A decision taken unanimously by the mayors of this territory to express their fed up with the executive.
Toulouse town hall remains open
On the other hand, the town hall of Toulouse will be open because “Jean-Luc Moudenc does not wish to disturb the people of Toulouse”, indicates his team to Toulouse News.
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