Bordeaux pays the bill of his major works – Les Echos

OUR CORRESPONDENT – The city managed by Alain Juppé increased taxes of 5%. Stadium, City of civilizations wine, new auditorium: investments multiply

Alain Juppe Bordeaux awakened … and taxes.. Brilliantly re-elected mayor last year, he has never hidden that he would pass by. To complete a provisional budget of € 512 million, the city council April 13 passed a 5% increase in the residential property tax rates and rising to 24.13% and 29.51% respectively. Alain Juppe even estimates it would have taken them to climb 21% to finance lower provisions and additional costs such as those related to the reform of school time. Two measures that resulted in his “a loss of 13 million euros in 2015 and a cumulative loss of 68 million euros in 2017.”

4,000 municipal employees

“Bordeaux became one of the most taxed cities in France,” denounced the PS MP Michèle Delaunay. An unjust accusation to the mayor stressed that if the rates are high, three quarters of the population enjoy a reduction of nearly 20%. For the municipality, it is difficult to reduce the lifestyle of the municipality that employs 4,000 municipal officials for lack of synergies with Bordeaux Metropole.

The city, which has suffered from chronic under-investment by the end of the “period Chaban,” also pays its beautification policy. “It is with prestigious investment at the expense of the local facilities” , deplores Matthew Rouveyre, Councillor PS. Some sites, such as the new auditorium, were well negotiated with an inclusive price of 26 million. This is not the case of the City of wine civilizations whose bill has exploded, reaching 81 million euros, of which almost half is paid by the city. The stadium, which opened this month and the new municipal city also expensive. “The initial budget shows the heavy burden of these public-private partnership” , peak Matthew Rouveyre.