The IFrap foundation has published, with Le Point, its prize list after very in-depth work on the 80 largest cities in France, divided into 4 categories.
–In the Adour basin, only Pau was scrutinized within the last group: the small towns ”, from 64,790 to 80,000 inhabitants. While Colmar tops this category with a score of 15.5 / 20, the Béarn 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 Béarn capital is pinned for the high level of local taxes per capita as well as that of operating expenses.
Agnès Verdier-Molinié clarified the approach: “ We took indicators that allow a total financial comparison between cities. Simple on paper, the idea is difficult to implement. Why ? Firstly, because the budgets of the municipalities and the inter-municipal authorities must be added together, since, henceforth, their powers are shared. Then, not only the main budgets but also a multitude of ancillary budgets, which include a number of investments and often heavy parallel deficits, must be taken into account. ».
« We took as criteria the operating expenses – including personnel expenses -, the investments, the level of indebtedness and the fiscal pressure, by reasoning, for the investment, “per capita” and over the period of the mandate, in order to do not penalize mayors who invest a lot at the beginning and less at the end, or vice versa. It puts everyone on an equal footing. Per capita debt is a very good indicator of sound management. We have also considered taxes in their entirety, so as not to limit ourselves to only direct local taxes, even if we highlight them ».
“Our figures are those for the 2018 budget year. To establish the variation, and therefore to follow the evolution of the policy carried out, we compare them with those of 2014, the year of the start of the mandate. It is a marker of political action which makes it possible to underline the effort or the degradation in the management mode. From these figures, we obtain a score out of 20, for 2014 and 2018, which delivers unprecedented information to citizens as the municipal elections approach ”.
Awards …
Very large cities (over 150,000 inhabitants) – Villeurbanne takes the lead ahead of Angers, Toulouse, Toulon and Bordeaux. Follow, 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. Follow: 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-sized towns (between 80,000 and 107,565 inhabitants) – Colombes wins in front 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 in front of Quimper, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Noisy-le-Grand and Le Tampon. Follow 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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