Much more than the administrative account – now CFU (Single Financial Accounts) – for the 2021 financial year
or the various subsidies allocated to associations, it is the report of the Regional Chamber of Accounts (CRC) Centre-Val de Loire on the local public company Chartres Aménagement which made people talk about it, during the meeting of the Municipal Council, Thursday June 30th.
As during the Community Council of Chartres Métropole, Monday, June 27, if it was the only one of the sixty-eight points on the agenda for which the municipal councilors did not have to deliberate. But it is nevertheless this one which caused the most stormy debates in the hemicycle of the administrative pole, for more than an hour. premium
“Criticism of the SPL” or “political charge”: the report on Chartres Aménagement is talked about
The SPL report is once again talked about
After recalling the various elements and the five recommendations of the magistrates of the CRC, on which the SPL Chartres Aménagement has a period of one year to act, Franck Masselus, elected in charge of finance and forecasting and CEO of Chartres Development, notably pointed to the press release published by the magistrate on April 6. “This press release made me react because it is particularly incriminating and contains many inaccuracies,” he says, straight away.
Quentin Guillemain, Chartres Ecology opposition councilor, is the first to react. “We hear your remarks well since it seems, with you, the magistrates are always wrong”, insists the elected official. “This report illustrates what we have been saying over the past two years on LPSs and in particular those around the city of Chartres and Chartres Métropole. »
“You can say it with your creaky little voice of a little people’s commissar, but there is no irregularity in all this! “says the mayor, Jean-Pierre Gorges.
“We can clearly see that it is against the SPL, but it is the tool that is multiplying everywhere, with the advantages of the private and the public at the same time. » Jean Pierre Gorges
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(mayor of Chartres)
After the appeal filed for material error on May 25 by the SPL Chartres Aménagement, Franck Masselus indicated that the latter was under investigation by the Regional Chamber of Accounts of the region and this since June 17. premium
The Regional Chamber of Accounts points to “a lack of transparency” within Chartres Aménagement
“We have a lot of merit in stimulating the democratic debate here”
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In turn, several elected opposition members also spoke. “The report deals with a period when we were not there (2014-2019), but it points to excesses and flaws that we seem to have already highlighted several times”, reports Jacqueline Marre (Chartres on the left), which also raises the indebtedness of the SPL. “This relationship is still quite violent in the descriptions that are made! »
An intervention to which Franck Masselus immediately replied: “Madame Marre, you did not understand what a development company is. Faced with indebtedness, there is a stock that will be valued and then sold afterwards! »
After almost an hour of debate, Jean-François Bridet (Chartres Ecology) spoke in turn. “We have a lot of merit in animating the democratic debate here in order, each time, to be qualified as more or less remained, who understand nothing of anything and who are always taught a lesson. »
The international silent film festival sparks debate
The new silent film festival project in Chartres has captured the attention of opposition politicians, fiercely opposed to granting such a subsidy for its holding. “We solemnly ask all the elected representatives of the majority if they really want to sign a blank check”, asks Jean-François Bridet, elected Chartres Ecology. The international silent film festival, “destined, through a vast and rich program, to cultivate the memory of cinema ‘without words'”, according to the majority, provoked strong opposition .
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For an overall budget of €476,754, the City of Chartres will make a contribution to the association organizing the festival estimated at €277,275. An “excessive” sum, according to the opposition. “No municipality gives so much! For its festival, Gérardmer grants 50,000 €, Montpellier, 270,000 €. We have the impression that this association is asking the city to be credulous, ”insists Jacqueline Marre, elected Chartres on the left. “There is a real disproportion compared to other cultural projects. It’s public money and we ask ourselves questions, it’s very risky. »
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Jacqueline Marre
(elected Chartres on the left)
While opposition politicians pointed to the lack of experience and the absence of members of the organizing association, Institut de la Mémoire Vive, Jean-Pierre Gorges strongly defended the project. “We are capitalizing on this city, where is the problem? You make a trial of intent with an indictment that is more than limited! »
Community funding highlighted “I throw, I take a risk, and it may not follow: so what? We’ll see, ”defends the city councilor. Another point of contention: the lack, or even the absence of funding from local authorities. “We do not even know if the Drac (Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs), the Department or the Region will give subsidies, so we would be the first to act! », worries Jacqueline Marre who subsequently proposed, without success, that the vote be postponed to the next meeting of the Municipal Council.
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