In order to ensure better organisation of services, in the year following each general renewal of the municipal councils, the president of the public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status may draw up a report on the pooling of services between the services of the public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status and those of the member municipalities. This report includes a draft scheme for the pooling of services to be implemented during the term of office. In particular, the draft plan sets out the projected impact of the pooling on the staffing levels of the public inter-municipal cooperation establishment with its own tax status and of the communes concerned, and on their operating expenditure.
The report is sent to each of the municipal councils of the member communes for their opinion. The municipal council of each commune has three months in which to give its opinion. In the absence of a decision within this period, its opinion is deemed to be favourable.
The draft scheme is approved by decision of the deliberative body of the public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax system.
The mutualisation scheme is sent to each of the municipal councils of the communes that are members of the public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation.
Each year, during the budget orientation debate or, failing that, when the budget is voted, the progress of the mutualisation scheme is the subject of a communication from the president of the public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status to its deliberative body.