« The secret of a budget is the stabilization of revenues is what I do in my town, “says Jean-Pierre Duez, mayor of Saint Paul and vice-president of the finance of the community of communes of Blaye (CCB). And the secret of a quick and serene meeting is perhaps not to vote anything that relates to the minimum wage. Until then, this Wednesday evening, the first 16 points on the agenda had been voted unanimously, or with abstention.
Among these, notable and rare in this period of budgetary recession, the CCB voted unanimously an increase of 12 % for associations with an inter-community vocation and for sporting and cultural events of the same nature, all for a total of 52,350 euros. The rate of the taxes of built and not built land as well as the housing tax are unchanged. Sport is not forgotten, since 19,800 euros are devoted to him for five events.
The activity report of the Intercommunal Center for Social Action (CIAS) was marked by a moment of emotion with the mention, by Murielle Picq, vice-president in charge of the file, of the death of a person working in this service. 900 people benefit from social support from the CIAS.
“Real situation in the territory”
The point that has been debated was therefore that of the vote of the household waste removal tax (TEOM). The product called is 4,345,912 euros and increased by 11.90 %. “We asked the minimum wage a sincere product call, that is to say taking into account the real situation of the territory,” said Denis Baldès, president of the CCB. It is proposed to keep a door-to-door collection (PAP) with a passage every three weeks for the entire territory, communes equipped with collective contribution points (PAC) or not, until December 2025.
“If there is no agreement, it will be the rate last year which will apply with an additional cost of 310,000 euros which will be taken on the CCB budget,” he said.
Session suspension
Xavier Zorilla, mayor of Cars, opened hostilities by questioning the legality of the motion and by calling the increase “unacceptable and unjustified”. “The subject is not to deploy or not, but to vote the rates,” replied Denis Baldés. Marie-Lise Giovannucci, mayor of Samonac, complained that for “small municipalities, the Smicval projects seem exorbitant, we are not heard, we know nothing”. “The communities of communes of the Grand Cubzaguais and Latitude Nord Gironde have a 1 % drop in their rate,” said Baldès. “By what miracle do PACs lower the rate compared to PAP?” Asked Jean-Michel Belis, mayor of Fours.
For Eric Page de Saint-Girons-d’Aiguevives, “no question of the PAC”, when Catherine Vergès, mayor of Villeneuve, pointed out the “drifts of investments” and an absence of discussions with the union. Gérard Carreau, delegate in the Smicval, defended the reform and Patricia Merchadou assured his confidence in the figures given. Denis Baldès argued that studies showed that the PAP had the volume of waste buried via better sorting. A session suspension was requested before the vote by approval of the accuracy rates, by 20 votes for and 17 against.
