the rant of the president of the departmental council of Haute-Garonne
He assures us that it is not a threat or a rant, rather regrets. Georges Méric specifies in the preamble that the Department of Haute-Garonne has always been in favor of the LGV between Toulouse and Bordeaux. And that it will be done with his support. But the elected socialist is a little upset to have seen Monday that the Occitanie Region and the Regional Prefecture did not comply with the funding of local authorities. Basically, who was going to pay how much. With the support of his majority group, the account will write a letter of intent to the prefect within two weeks.
The Department more in demand than Toulouse Métropole
We already knew that Financial statement 40% of the project, i.e. 4.1 billion euros, we also knew that 20% would come from Europe, in any case he would be asked. And that the local authorities would take charge of 40% of these 10 billion euros. Of the latter 40%, Carole Delga, the president of the Occitanie region and Etienne Guyot, propose that the Region take part up to 41%, and according to Georges Méric the Department of Haute-Garonne 25% and Toulouse Métropole 20%. The remaining 14% distributed between the other territories (Departments of Gers, Lot, Hautes-Pyrénées, Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne and the urban communities of Albi, Auch, Cahors, Castres – Mazamet, Montauban, Muret, Sicoval, and Tarbes-Lourdes).
We find ourselves 2nd financier of contributions from local authorities, ahead of Toulouse Métropole which has more profits to achieve than us with this LGV.
Georges Méric took out his calculator, that meant he said a differential of 110 million euros between its designated Department as the second regional financier of the LGV and Toulouse Métropole. “Toulouse Métropole has offices and housing to build, land to sell, they may have revenues that we are not intended to achieve“, supports the socialist.
He in his letter ask a few questions: wants to know the schedule of achievements and fundraising, to know who is leading the operation (SNCF or ad hoc company), if the train tolls will help financing. He also wants to be more involved in governance and that a ceiling be established for all-rail, in other words a “one shot” payment without surplus linked to budget overruns.
The Department of Haute-Garonne reaffirmed that it was favorable to the creation of an ad hoc financing company. The majority are committed to adopting the definitive financing of the Department by the end of November.