In the Adour basin, only Pau was scrutinized within the last group: small towns, from 64,790 to 80,000 inhabitants. While Colmar tops this category with a score of 15.5/20, the Bearn capital is far behind (14th) with a 10.4. In addition, the trend is downward since in 2014 had obtained a score of 11.
The Béarnaise capital is singled out for the high level of local taxes per inhabitant as well as that of operating expenses.
Agnès Verdier-Molinié explained the approach: “ We have taken indicators that allow a total financial comparison between cities. Simple on paper, the idea is difficult to implement. Why ? Firstly because it is necessary to add the budgets of the communes and the intercommunalities, since, from now on, their competences are shared. Then there are to be taken into account not only the main budgets but also a multitude of supplementary budgets, which include a number of investments and often heavy parallel deficits. ».
« We have taken as criteria operating expenses – including personnel expenses -, investments, the level of indebtedness and the tax burden, reasoning, for investment, “per inhabitant” and over the period of the mandate, in order to not to penalize mayors who invest a lot at the beginning and less at the end, or the reverse. It puts everyone on the same footing. Debt per capita is a very good indicator of sound management. We have also considered taxes in their totality, so as not to limit ourselves to local direct taxes alone, even if they are highlighted ».
“Our figures are those of the 2018 budget year. To establish the variation, and therefore to follow the evolution of the policy carried out, we compare them to those of 2014, the year of the beginning of the mandate. It is a marker of the political action which makes it possible to underline the effort or the degradation in the mode of management. From these figures, we derive a score out of 20, for 2014 and 2018, which provides unprecedented information to citizens as the municipal elections approach.
Awards…
Very large cities (more than 150,000 inhabitants) – Villeurbanne comes first ahead of Angers, Toulouse, Toulon and Bordeaux. Next, in order: Rennes, Reims, Nantes, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nîmes, Montpellier, Saint-Etienne, Lille, Le Havre, Dijon, Paris, Grenoble, Marseille and Nice.
Large cities (between 107,565 and 150,000 inhabitants) – Boulogne-Billancourt is N°1 ahead of Annecy, Besançon, Limoges and Metz. These are followed by Amiens, Brest, Mulhouse, Saint-Denis de La Réunion, Caen, Aix-en-Provence, Orléans, Le Mans, Rouen, Argenteuil, Clermont-Ferrand, Perpignan, Saint-Denis, Montreuil and Tours.
Medium cities (between 80,000 and 107,565 inhabitants) – Colombes wins ahead of Versailles, Cherbourg-en-Contentin, Saint-Paul, Nanterre, Roubaix, Courbevoie, Asnières-sur-Seine, Tourcoing, Créteil, Poitiers, Saint-Pierre, Vitry-sur-Seine, Aubervilliers, Nancy, Avignon, Rueil-Malmaison, Aulnay-sous-Bois, Dunkirk and Fort-de-France.
Small towns (from 64,790 to 80,000 inhabitants) – Colmar is at the top ahead of Quimper, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Noisy-le-Grand and Le Tampon. This is followed by Mérignac, Saint-Nazaire, La Rochelle, Drancy, Ajaccio, Bourges, Champigny-sur-Marne, Béziers, Pau, Calais, Levallois-Perret, Antibes, Cannes, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés and La Seyne-sur-Mer .
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