City Council: Discussion of budget guidelines for 2011, statement by Jean-Jacques PORCHERON Creteil City Council, February 7, 2011 In a national context marked by an economic crisis and a system that has not finished producing social inequalities, against the government's willingness to associate with local authorities forced march to austerity policies he leads, the preparation Budget 2011 promises to be a difficult exercise .
Everything is in place for the State to adjust downward the total aid provided for the local communities, including those resulting from its own policy choices.
Between striking TP , freezing and falling endowments, the Finance Act 2011 requires communities with severe bleeding.
To fund local services and facilities useful to the population, there remains only the housing tax and property taxes that become variable adjustment. And between levels of taxation on households, suspension, maintenance or development of services, trade-offs will be painful.
The state remains deaf to the legitimate concerns of local officials. It transfer communities whole areas of expertise without providing the corresponding means for the sole purpose of reduced to mere subcontractors its policy.
fiscal autonomy is called into question, and with it the autonomy of decisions and choices of local communities. Without this autonomy, we depend more and more allocations that the state gives us, and when the allocations are set aside the rules of the game change and then what are the strong commitments for which we were elected are attacked.
Thus the government completes its plan to destroy local public services.
In this political context that the report provides guidance to master budget current expenditure, subsidies to associations and pooling services with Central Plains to streamline actions.
On the investment side, we believe that funding the work of the future crèche the Breach designed to accommodate 60 children, housing with social development project the Pernod-Ricard , funding for urban renewal of blueberries and "Little Pre-Pit," the commitment of the renovation of the former Heritage ICADE, construction of the stadium locker room Desmont, help meet the expectations of our citizens still live in a better quality environment.
The quality of living together will be strengthened by keeping the level of benefits to the population, and this beautiful festival that is hosting a stage of the Tour de France. Just as efforts to social justice will be maintained with the actions of the school, going on holiday for children, and the development of welcomes leisure without accommodation.
However, any budget is a political construction, the state deficit is largely the result of choices we disagree with the logic.
We are even more opposed than the new basket recipe community does not lead us to calmly consider the evolution of local policies to better meet the needs of the population.
uncertainty in which we place the government is agonizing choice. If on the one hand, in the absence of precise information on the level of revenue we do not know where we can go through cons, we know we will be forced to act as shock absorbers to the harsh political rigor imposed on our citizens.
Thus any increases: unemployment, job insecurity, poverty, consumer prices, as energy, gas, electricity water, heating, rent, transport. J'arête here this endless inventory of the consequences of unjust government policy when the next gift to the richest, profiteers, speculators increase. No doubt the budget will be very heavily used CCAS.
And so far the community has always been a bulwark against the policies of austerity, the future will she cope with the deterioration of the situation. We ask all the more sharply the question of government is now unable to say when it will pay and at what level will be his contribution to the Commons.
there somewhere irresponsible choices. I want to expose, for example the 172 billion euros in lost revenue for state coffers in 2010, following the measures of social and tax exemptions granted to employers, as the decision to package the end of the shield tax to the abolition of the ISF
At our territories or need finance for projects enabling policy interdependent society, the State has found 360 billion euros to rescue the banking system from bankruptcy, can find the funding necessary to give every level of community resources to help develop the country, knowing that they involved 70% investment in the nation.
It is therefore necessary that communities benefit from a new tax-related economic territory, voted by the councils and taxing financial assets of companies. Just as it is useful to promote closer cooperation and solidarity increased between financial communities.
In this context, we support the Mayor your proposed budget guidelines for 2011 and the policy of non-alignment to that of the State mentioned in the report before us presented. In this respect, facing the withdrawal of the state, we do not want to make a dogma of stabilizing the debt if the issue of a small increase it is necessary to better meet the needs of our citizens .
However, lack of oil wells on the town, we think the municipality should alert the population and offer the commitment action policy for financial autonomy of the commune is respected.
