Communauté d'agglomération Amiens Métropole

Communauté d'agglomération Amiens Métropole
Country	France
Region	Picardie
Department	Somme
No. of communes	33
Established	2000
Seat	Amiens
Government
– President	Gilles de Robien
Area
– Total	312 km2 (120.5 sq mi)
Population (2005)
– Total	177,345UNIQ68b532,507,725acfd-ref-00,000,000-QINU
– Density	577/km2 (1,494.4/sq mi)
Budget	295,845,311 € (BP 2006) with 98,796,417 € invested
Website	http://www.amiens.fr

The Communauté d'agglomération Amiens Métropole is a communauté d'agglomération in the Somme département and in the Picardie région of France.

History

In 1991 a study was started by SIEPA (Syndicat Intercommunal d'Etude et de Amiénois Programming), which was the origin of Greater Amiens, established in 1994 with 18 municipalities.

Pursuant to the Chevènement Act, 2000, it was turned into a communauté d'agglomération, Amiens Métropole, which then encompassed 20 communes with the arrival of Allonville and Bertangles.

Since then, Amiens Métropole has continued to add more communes : 2003, with 21 municipalities, 2004 with 27 municipalities, and in 2007, 33 municipalities.

Composition

This Communauté d'agglomération comprises 33 communes:

1. Allonville
2. Amiens
3. Bertangles
4. Blangy-Tronville
5. Bovelles
6. Boves
7. Cagny
8. Camon
9. Clairy-Saulchoix
10. Creuse
11. Dreuil-lès-Amiens
12. Dury
13. Estrées-sur-Noye
14. Glisy
15. Grattepanche
16. Guignemicourt
17. Hébécourt
18. Longueau
19. Pissy
20. Pont-de-Metz
21. Poulainville
22. Remiencourt
23. Revelles
24. Rivery
25. Rumigny
26. Sains-en-Amiénois
27. Saint-Fuscien
28. Saint-Sauflieu
29. Saleux
30. Salouël
31. Saveuse
32. Thézy-Glimont
33. Vers-sur-Selles

Responsibilities

• Action for Economic Development (Support for industrial, commercial or employment, support agricultural and forestry activities)
• Action to promote housing for the disadvantaged
• Advocacy
• Sanitation
• Waste Collection and household treatment
• Construction and development, maintenance and management of equipment or cultural institutions, socio-cultural, socio-educational, sports
• Design, development and maintenance of the roads
• Design, development, maintenance and management of business areas (industrial, commercial, service, craft or tourist)
• Design, development, maintenance and management of port or airport activities
• Crematorium
• Contractual urban development, community development and economic and social integration
• Local crime prevention
• Water (treatment, supply, distribution)^[2]
• Research and Programming
• Noise control
• IT networking (Internet, cable)
• Operation scheduled for improving habitat (OPAH)
• Urban Transport Organization
• Housing policy
• Agenda local housing
• Protection and enhancement of the environment
• Air Quality
• Tourism
• Rubbish processing^[3]

Tax and budget

The community is financed by the single business tax (15.27% 2006), which replaces the taxes once payable by the member communes.

See also

• Communes of the Somme department

Sources

• Article de Paul Oudart "Amiens métropole" de la revue Mappemonde N°65 (2002-1) (French)
• le splaf (French)
• la base aspic (French)

References

1. ^ Amiens Métropole, Rapport d'activité 2005, (page consultée le 8 mai 2007), http://www.amiens.fr/citoyen/rapport-activite-2005.pdf (French)
2. ^ Amiens Métropole distributed 15,125,988 cubic metres of drinking water to 37,542 subscribers in 2005
3. ^ SOURCE : base de donnée ASPIC du ministère de l'intérieur(French)

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