Posted Sep 29, 2022 9:48 AM
This is the second time she has done this exercise. Monday September 26, the prefect of Val-de-Marne Sophie Thibault came to present to the Departmental Council the activity report of the State services for 2021. A year of “transition” marked by the health crisis and where the State action had in particular focused on vaccination and support for economic activity. In Val-de-Marne, the solidarity fund has, for example, benefited 42,000 companies for an amount of 823 million euros.
But if the session was dedicated to the activity of the State in 2021, the local elected officials also came to give voice to more recent issues. Starting with the energy crisis, inflation and their impact on community finances. “We currently estimate the additional cost of rising energy prices for communities at the national level at 11 billion euros,” says Nicolas Tryzna, president of the Free and Independent Republicans group.
Concern for transport projects
Another sensitive subject is transport. To open up, the territory hopes to benefit from several extensions: those of lines 1 and 10 of the metro, and that of the RN406. But the extension of line 1 to Val-de-Fontenay, supported by elected officials, was challenged in May by the public inquiry commission. State services are currently examining a new copy sent by Ile-de-France Mobilités.
For the president (LR) of the Department, Olivier Capitanio, the sinews of war are funding. Negotiations concerning the mobility component of the State-Region Plan Contract (CPER) 2021-2027 have still not started, yet it is the latter which will determine the level of support from the State. “The State must be there” adds the president of the communist group Fatiha Aggoune.
On Monday, the prefect wanted to be reassuring. On the mobility aspect of the CPER, she declares that she wants to defend the department’s projects “with strength and conviction” with the regional prefect Marc Guillaume. And in terms of public finances, she assures that “the government has taken the measure” of the effect of inflation and soaring energy costs, when it has just unveiled the main lines of its project. of the 2023 finance law. The impact of the crisis is still being felt in the territories, and within the framework of the amending finance law, 120 million euros will be distributed to the departments to compensate for the increase in the RSA.
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