The 2013 budget dramatically increases the support to local economy

 The Angers town council i soming back to the good old use : the city renews with the stability of the local tax rates and want to support the living forces of Angers : the economy whose ability to generate jobs is deteriorating because unemployment is increasing.

The council tax and the property tax will keep the same rates in 2012 and 2013. Regarding the operating budget, Angers city has exactly, in spite of the worsening of the economic context, the same level in self-financing : € 23, 6 millions in 2013 compared to... € 23,6 millions in 2012. The self-financing, which is the difference between receipts and expenses, illustrates the worrying of the town council not to spend more that it earns. In the operating expenses, the wages are the first expenses : € 103 millions in 2013 vs. € 99,4 millions the previous year. Their percentage in the total of expenses doesn't change. The growth of expenses is 3% in 2013.

The capital budget, dedicated to the facilities the city wants to offer to its inhabitants, increases from € 65,8 millions to € 68,6 millions. The annual variation is 4,25%. So it is rather reassuring that the increase of capital expenses is faster than the increase of operating expenses. But an important change has occured in 2013 regarding the support of economy. While, in 2012, the economic development got only € 1,1 million, the amount of money dedicated to the same goal has soared to € 7,3 millions.  (Credit Pictures : Angers city)