have actual difficulties to redeploy spending

There is urgency. But for some departments only. And in condition of course that the effect of well scissors known expenditure and revenue of the departments did not aggravate. Otherwise it will probably need to reconsider the rules of the game. It is summarized in a few words, the General conclusion of the report, Pierre Jamet, Director General of the Department of the Rhône, presented yesterday to the Prime Minister. A report commissioned under pressure from the rise of the discontent of the Presidents of General Council. Yesterday, Prime Minister's Office has seized this opportunity to announce that it would commence next month with their association, the ADF, "a work of consensus" on these issues of funding, given that "the State has a certain share of responsibility in the drift of certain local expenditures."

The report relativizes the dramatic financial situation in which a large number of departments to departure. Pierre Jamet concedes that there are a dozen really desperate and with which public authorities should provide support without delay. For these emergency situations, the official advocates the establishment of a follow-up Committee that would prepare "a device to aid, either by direct matching, advance on receipts", for 2010 (or even 2011) for those who are definitely unable to complete their budget in the coming weeks. The cost for the State could roughly near a hundred million euros.

Heterogeneous situations

"The end of the first half of 2010 will be crucial," said the rapporteur. This deadline until certain components of the effect of scissors (an evolution of 8 of the expenditure against 3 for revenues last year) may indeed vary significantly. At least if according to some recent cases of spectacular rise of transfer rights, important source of revenues of the communities. After a heavy fall the last two years, rising have thus reached on the last four months 32 in Rhône and 44 in Seine Saint-Denis. But they continue to fall in some departments, notes Pierre Jamet, who insists throughout his report on the great heterogeneity of situations. The economic development of the territories, their density, population movements, the pyramid, the employment situation is if various that the effects of the crisis can only be differentiated. Nevertheless "some rural departments, more than the urban departments ..., have actual difficulties to redeploy spending." Hence the need, according to Pierre Jamet, reinforcement of péréquateurs systems.

The 40 proposals in the report are attached mainly to optimize day-to-day management of the departments, potential source of significant cost savings. For much of the Interior the workings of the system, Pierre Jamet suggested and implement of real instruments of decentralised management (which would for example avoided to a General Council to correct 67.000 errors on 110,000 data files RSA poorly Crusaders with headquarters!). Problem: "the departments have become heavy ships, margins of manoeuvre exist but require time. "This may be the result of one or two fiscal years", admits the rapporteur. However the territorial reform in preparation will certainly reshuffle the cards.

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