Question 8758 — municipalities

Summary

Mr. Fabrice Roussel draws the attention of the Minister of State, Minister of the Interior, to the rural solidarity endowment and the eligibility criteria for its “town center” fraction. One of the eligibility criteria is that the main town of the canton does not have more than 10,000 inhabitants. A purely demographic criterion, on which the municipalities have no power to act and which can mechanically make certain cities ineligible, without that their budgetary and territorial realities are not taken into account. Municipalities which leave the system for this reason see their allocation reduced by half in N+1 and completely eliminated in N+2. This allocation makes it possible to finance significant and essential operating costs to maintain a level of public service that meets the needs of those administered, but also to nourish the capacity to invest, it is It is difficult to understand why municipalities are excluded from benefiting from the DSR for this reason alone. Even more so when they play, in a territory, a structuring function in terms of centrality and attractiveness, but also in the quality and density of equipment and services. This criterion, which had to be reviewed as part of the reform of the overall operating allocation (DGF) announced since 2019 and recently advocated by the Court accounts in its report dated October 9, 2024, therefore questions regarding equality between territories and in particular between rural territories. Also, in an increasingly constrained budgetary context for local authorities and in order to prevent the municipalities which benefit from it from unfairly losing financial support essential to their development and the maintenance of local public services, the State will undertake concretely a revision of the eligibility criteria for the DSR and more broadly a reform of the DGF? Otherwise, is it envisaged that derogatory measures will be put in place allowing municipalities close to the capital to retain the first fraction of the DSR, when it reaches a population of 10,000 inhabitants? He wants to know her intentions on this matter.

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