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Mer: spending by policy area · 2025

Town planning and housing

€1.5M

15% of 2025 spending · €234 per resident

€1.1M in 2024

Breakdown of this item’s spending

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  • Shared services35 %€528k
    • Electricity€176k
    • Other materials and supplies€74k
    • Vehicles and rolling stock€49k
    • Maintenance€42k
    • Staff insurance€31k
    • Water and wastewater€25k
    • Fuel€18k
    • Clothing and workwear€12k
    • Other lines€75k
    • Works and equipment€27k
  • Urban green spaces32 %€478k
    • Permanent staff salaries€177k
    • Pension contributions€62k
    • Land€44k
    • Contract staff salaries€43k
    • Social security contributions€40k
    • Permanent staff bonuses and allowances€31k
    • Staff insurance€20k
    • Other materials and supplies€10k
    • Other lines€48k
  • Street lighting30 %€462k
    • Electricity€50k
    • Networks€27k
    • Studies and research€972
    • Other materials and supplies€317
    • Small equipment supplies€60
    • Works and equipment€384k
  • Other urban development programmes3 %€39k
    • Contract staff salaries€12k
    • Permanent staff salaries€8k
    • Social security contributions€5k
    • Pension contributions€4k
    • Staff insurance€3k
    • Permanent staff bonuses and allowances€2k
    • Studies and research€1k
    • Miscellaneous contributions (memberships)€1k
    • Other lines€3k
  • Development schemes< 1 %€4k
  • Authority's own property portfolio< 1 %€3k
    • Electricity€3k
    • Water and wastewater€71

Compared with towns of the same size

18.8% of the town’s running costs goes to this item. Towns of the same size: 9.2%.

A gap this large often comes from how the town files its spending across items, or from what its intercommunal body runs, more than from its choices. Compare with care.

Source: the town’s 2025 accounts (DGFiP), by public policy. Amounts paid in the year. See the source

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