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A cure for equality among municipalities, that is the goal of the reform of the General Operating Grant, which was just confirmed this Friday by the Minister of Local Authorities, Marylise Lebranchu, and the Minister of the Budget, Christian Eckert. It will indeed be included in the 2016 finance law, which will be discussed in the autumn.
The DGF, its small technocratic name, is not insignificant: 21 billion euros were distributed in 2015 to municipalities and communities, which represents more than 20% of their operating revenues.
Today, about thirty parameters come into play in determining the amount received by each of them, a complexity that often results in glaring inequalities.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls has decided to instill more simplicity and fairness into the system. The Prime Minister wants to decentralize part of the decisions, allowing the elected officials of an intermunicipality to arrange their own distribution among the municipalities.
A casus belli for the Association of Mayors of France, whose main characteristic is not reformative energy.
