Metropolis of Rouen. The key figures of Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol’s “combat budget”
By Julien Bottler
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“The context is very difficult”, recognizes without difficulty Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol. However, despite the crisis, the president of the Metropolis Rouen Normandy ensure that you want to “stay the course” within the framework of the 2023 budgeta “combat budget”, voted on Monday, December 12, 2022. We summarize it for you (non-exhaustive) in a few numbers.
An increased 2023 budget for the Métropole de Rouen
The budget is up sharply, from 899.2 million euros in 2022 to 961.3 million in 2023. The reason is simple, operating expenses increase, from 549.4 million to €605.9 million in one year. “This increase is mainly related to budgetary impacts due to the energy crisis and the increase in the index point”, can we read in the metropolitan budget.
On the investment side, the Métropole is counting on 309.2 million euros in 2023against almost 307 million in 2022.
The first item of investment in this budget is the social-ecological transition, which represents 123 million euros.
On the transport and mobility side, on account €137.5 million operating and management costs, mainly allocated to the Tip and Lovelo network, but which also include carpooling aid.
“We stay the course”
Also in the budget, there is an envelope of €30.8 million dedicated to development of public space with the focus on the fight against heat islands, revegetation, de-waterproofing of soils and the requalification of roads.
To enhance the attractiveness of the territory, the Métropole puts 34 million euros on the table, including 16.9 million for economic development and higher education and 4.8 million for tourism and trade. 11.8 million euros will be donated to municipal grants.
It should be noted that, during this difficult period, the Métropole has adopted a sobriety plan which plans to reduce its energy consumption by 15% in two years.
Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol welcomes the ambitions of his budget in these uncertain times. “When you’re in the fog, either you don’t move, or you stay the course. It remains to be hoped that the fog does not thicken further in 2023…
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