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Sambreville will receive, for example, 8 million. A very large amount, but as the mayor of Sombreffe reminds us, “the municipality is under a management plan and we will see what we can do. No precipitation. You have to study the file. This money can come to reduce the debt or make it possible to finance projects with less recourse to borrowing and therefore to the burden of the debt.“
Another example in Perwez: the sale brings in around 2.055 million. One million of which has already been allocated to specific projects, as mayor Jordan Godfriaux points out: “we are going to finance the renovation of the church of the Prieuré Sainte-Marie dear to Gabriel Ringlet. There will always be masses but also cultural activities. This project already existed, the difference is that we can inject equity into it and reduce the debt burden, which is reasonable management. In this renovation of the church and the priory, as a place of meeting and exchanges, there are also donors and private partners. Another project is the investment in a citizen wind turbine four times more powerful than the one that will be dismantled. Perwez invests 49% and the citizens 51%, this will bring in money and it is also sound management. Finally, periodically, the municipality takes decisions on road repairs, and we are going to redo certain municipal roads in poor condition. The rest will go into an extraordinary reserve fund. Of course, we don’t spend everything. We keep regarding a million and this cash from the sale of Brutélé is very good news because it represents regarding 15% of our ordinary annual municipal budget.“
A little further on, in Villers la Ville, Mayor Emmanuel Burton is smiling: “the sale of our shares in Brutélé brings the municipality a little less than 20% of its ordinary annual municipal budget. It’s a lot and it’s good news in these difficult financial times, following the successive crises of the reception of Ukrainians, the COVID crisis and the energy crisis. Municipal finances almost everywhere in Wallonia are being undermined and for the municipal shareholders, the sale of Brutélé is a breath of fresh air. What we’re going to do is put that money into the Extraordinary Reserve Fund. You know, in one way or another, the municipal budget is ultimately globalized, and therefore we are not going to allocate the cash from the sale of Brutélé to one or another project, but it is also certain that Faced with the increase in borrowing rates, having own funds is a more favorable context.“
For the municipalities concerned, being realistic, this money also falls very very well… one year before the municipal elections.
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