With the energy crisis, the mayor of Marseille Benoît Payan announces, Friday, September 16 on franceinfo, that the bill for the second city of France will “more than double” : “Before the price spike, we had it for 20 million euros. There, it’s going to be 45 million euros!” The elected socialist compares this “increase of 25 million euros” to “price to build three schools” and “welcome tens of thousands of children over decades”.
Pending further details from the government, of which it “wait to see” the safety net of 430 million euros for the 6,000 largest municipalities in France announced Thursday on franceinfo by the Minister Delegate in charge of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal, Benoît Payan assures that it will “have to completely review the accounts” and “to be imaginative”.
I’m going to have to get money where I can, smooth out the debt, renegotiate the loans, but it can’t always be the same, and especially the people of Marseille, who contribute to all this
Benoît Payan, PS mayor of Marseilleat franceinfo
If he planned to save “two million euros by lowering the heating” and “a million euros by raising the air conditioning by one degree”Benoît Payan believes that he “can’t save 25 million euros”. “Or else I turn everything off!” The mayor of Marseilles refuses to “crop” on public services. “I see closed swimming pools, closed libraries, closed museums. We have made the decision not to do anything close, says the elected socialist. In a city where public services have been abandoned for years, I have no right to do this.”
“There can no longer be a building that consumes energy”, believes the mayor of Marseille. Saving money by cutting back on public services? “In a city where public services have been abandoned for years, I have no no right to do that.” pic.twitter.com/QU6XsfkwEG
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“Afterwards, if tomorrow we are at 100 million euros in energy bills, we will move into the fourth dimension”, warns Benoît Payan. For the mayor of Marseille, “the state must be careful”. It has nevertheless planned a whole series of measures to save energy in the coming years: “light up the city with LEDs by 2030”, “extinguish the monuments earlier and earlier”, “halve our fleet of 1,000 cars”, “reduce the consumption of city agents by 30%”or “build all the buildings in the city with positive energy”.