The Villejuifois were there. En masse. No question, Thursday evening, of missing the city council which was to see the new communist mayor address the crucial questions of finances voted that evening. And they got it for their trip.
Pierre Garzon (PCF), who changed the city to the left after six years in the hands of Franck Le Bohellec (DVD), discovered the corpses in the closet while preparing the vote for the 2019 accounts and the 2020 budget.
“We have just learned that the Cahors Pact concluded by Mr. Le Bohellec with the State in 2018 had been exceeded by 1.5 million euros compared to the contract signed. The prefect will therefore ask me to reimburse this amount, announces Pierre Garzon, the new mayor. This is the double sanction because it falls in a year when the public spending needs are even greater, due to the social crisis linked to the health crisis. “
“I challenge you to find a community with an administrative account in deficit”
This debt means that Villejuif, under Franck Le Bohellec, consumed more than the 1.2% of additional public spending authorized each year by the famous pact. “This contract is a fool’s game because it was established in relation to 2017, a year of sharp cuts in public spending,” says Christophe Achouri, Deputy Finance.
Second corpse of the evening: “The 2019 administrative account shows a deficit of 317,179 euros, announces Christophe Achouri. “I challenge you to find a community with an administrative account in deficit. This only happens in Villejuif, strangles Pierre Garzon. In addition, we discovered that this hole has been filled with investment revenue from 2020. ”
“Cleanliness expenses provisioned for 12 months in 2020 were spent in … three months”
Third corpse: “The cleaning expenses provisioned for 12 months in 2020 were spent in… three months (January, February and June), loose the mayor. And especially for the city center. “
Last snake to swallow for the new team: “We have just seen that there has been no collection of local taxes (advertising signs, etc.). An electoral gift from Mr. Le Bohellec which represents a loss of 200,000 euros for the community. “
The opposition recalls “the surplus of 6 million euros of the budget”
“There is a problem of inheritance, summarizes Alain Lipietz (EELV), municipal councilor, thinking for example of the 3.6 M € of communication expenses provisioned in the budget by the former mayor. But let the dead bury their dead. “” Mr. Le Bohellec must have said to himself: After me the flood », Retorts the municipal councilor and senator Sophie Taillé-Polian (Generation-S).
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The formulas have not unsettled Marc Badel, elected opposition, recalling “the surplus of 6 million euros of the budget” Le Bohellec, “the savings rate reduced to 12.70% and the debt reduction capacity to 9 years old, completely correct levels in the eyes of the law. As for the debt, yes it increased during the mandate, but I remind you that you all voted for this increase, created during the renegotiation of the debt. I was the only one to vote against. “Mahrouf Bounegta, another elected opposition member, warned Pierre Garzon about the possibility that he would lower the million euros planned to extend video surveillance:” This would be the way open to illegal deposits and the sale of products illegal ”.
Covid premium for 450 agents
Pierre Garzon, wanting to bring serenity back to the municipal life of Villejuif after these tormented years, announced that he would contact the prefect of Val-de-Marne on Friday to contest the very signing of the Pact of Cahors by his predecessor and request the ‘cancellation of the € 1.5 million levy. “The negotiation margins are extremely thin but when there is an obstacle, I do not back down. I go around it to find a solution. “
In the meantime, he has taken several measures that were close to his heart: the payment of the Covid bonus now to around 450 agents (nearly 400,000 euros), a municipal decree requiring a lessor evicting a tenant to relocate him if he has the means, and 200,000 euros earmarked in the budget for the most vulnerable, including 50,000 euros to three associations fully affected by the coronavirus crisis: the Secours populaire, the solidarity grocery store in Villejuif and the Women’s Initiative 94.
Next municipal council on October 6 with, this time, the amending budget which should, Pierre Garzon hopes, “start to move the lines”.
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