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Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz is a French agglomeration community, created on 1 January 2017 and located in the
Loire-Atlantique
Loire-Atlantique (; br, Liger-Atlantel; before 1957: ''Loire-Inférieure'', br, Liger-Izelañ, link=no) is a department in Pays de la Loire on the west coast of France, named after the river Loire and the Atlantic Ocean. It had a population o ...
department
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Government and military
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and the Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire (; ; br, Broioù al Liger) is one of the 18 regions of France, in the west of the mainland. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital, Nantes, one of a handful of "balancing metropolises" ().
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region
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Historical
After several months of negotiations, the community advisers of the two community of communes of Pornic and Cœur Pays de Retz decided to merge them on 13 June 2016 within an urban community called "Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz". The agglomeration community was created on 1 January 2017 by prefectural decree of 9 November 2016. On 5 January 2017, during its inaugural meeting, the community council elected the mayor of Pornic, Jean-Michel Brard, as president of the agglomeration community. On 1 January 2020, the municipality of Villeneuve-en-Retz left the ' and joined Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz.Community territory
Geography
Located in the southwestern department of Loire-Atlantique , Pornic intercommunal Agglo Retz includes 15 towns and has an area of .
Composition
The agglomeration community includes 15 municipalities:Demography
Administration
Seat
The headquarters of the urban community is in Pornic, 2 rue du Docteur Ange Guépin.Political trends
Community council
The 42 permanent advisers are thus distributed according to common law as follows:Elections
The agglomeration community is administered by its made up in 2020 of 42 community councillors, who are municipal councillors representing each of the member municipalities. Following the 2020 municipal elections in Loire-Atlantique, the community council of 9 July 2020 re-elected its president, Jean-Michel Brard, mayor of Pornic, as well as its 9 vice-presidents. As of this date, the list of vice-presidents is as follows: With 13 other elected officials, they form the community office for the period 2020-2026.List of Presidents
Powers
The intercommunality exercises the powers which have been transferred to it by the member municipalities, under the conditions defined by the general code of local authorities .Tax regime and budget
The agglomeration community is a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax system. In order to finance the exercise of its powers, the intercommunality collects the single professional tax 3 (FPU) - which succeeded the single professional tax (TPU) - and ensures an equalization of resources between the residential municipalities and those with of activity zones.Workforce
In order to implement its obligations, the inter-municipal association employs 200 agents.Notes
References
External links
* {{official website, http://www.pornicagglo.fr/ * Pornic Agglomeration communities in France Intercommunalities of Loire-Atlantique 2017 establishments in France