“Brief, short but dynamic”: the wish of President Pierre Cuny was respected this Thursday, July 6, the last evening of debates and votes for the Portes de France-Thionville Agglomeration before the summer break. Health, habitat and finance colored the exchanges.
Jean-Michel Cavalli – Today at 07:00
1. Future headquarters of the Agglo: a nice financial blow
Before merger, acquisition. With a view to becoming one with the neighboring Val de Fensch on January 1, 2026, the elected officials of Portes de France-Thionville have recorded the acquisition of a real estate complex calibrated to house the Hôtel de Communauté and the Pôle digital. Already mentioned in our columns, it is the former CCI building, located in Yutz, which was selected.
Built in 1995 by the Mecanica association, the building has housed the Chamber of Commerce and Industry since 2007 via a emphyteutic lease concluded for a period of 30 years. It is therefore appropriate to reimburse this institutional tenant for the part of the rents already paid or for the work undertaken.
“To put it simply and understandably, how much is the building costing us? “questioned, for the form, Pierre Cuny. Answer from Jean-Charles Louis, the great treasurer of the Agglo: “715,955 €”. A nice financial blow from the president’s point of view. Especially in view of the cost of renting the current Portes de France-Thionville headquarters, “€700,000 per year, spent at a loss, for an area of 1,500 m². It is therefore an exemplary operation. »
2. The effectiveness of the Local Health Contract in question
The Local Health Contract is dead, long live the Local Health Contract! In charge of health policy, Jean-Christophe Hamelin-Boyer briefly examined the effects of the CLS over the period 2019-2022. Before unveiling the new roadmap, structured around the following five main areas: access to health, rights and care; well-being and mental health; metabolic and cardiovascular diseases and cancers in adults; environmental health and finally the fight against smoking. So many themes that will feed targeted awareness-raising operations.
Brigitte Vaïsse did not question the existence of this “beautiful tool”. But the elected opposition member from Thionville wonders about the “cost-effectiveness” ratio of the device, “€244,000 for our finances, it is expensive especially when we look at the public affected, as evidenced by these 37 screenings for cancer… “We must have performance and success indicators,” echoed him the Yussois Pascal Landragin.
“So we shouldn’t do anything?” “, tensed Jean-Christophe Hamelin-Boyer. Supporting examples, he defended the benefits of this Local Health Contract by citing a few examples: “Compared to tobacco, the €10 pack of cigarettes does not work for us with Luxembourg. We must act, as we are also acting on the assistance for the installation of health professionals. »
3. Housing: a new plan
After health, housing. Portes de France-Thionville will roll out a third local housing plan. Brigitte Vaïsse’s voice resonated again. In a register that is familiar to her, the elected socialist pointed out the supposed deficiencies of the territory in terms of qualitative social housing. His fear? “An exile of many families from Thionville, where the offer is not satisfactory and where rental prices are constantly rising. This would only aggravate its bedroom-town character. »
Pierre Cuny, in an equally familiar register, swept away this disenchanted vision of the city: “We cannot speak of a dormitory town when its commercial vacancy rate drops from 24% to less than 8% […] Let’s not forget that over the period 2008-2014, where you occupied my place, so to speak, 182 social housing units were created. Since our arrival in 2014, we have almost 1,000 social housing units. »
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