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The Economic, Social and Cultural Council of Saint-Martin acknowledges the Collectivity's commitment to strengthening its efforts to improve private housing and combat substandard housing. The CESC emphasizes that difficulties in accessing decent housing are now a major challenge for many Saint-Martin families, in a context marked by a strained real estate market, the aging of existing housing stock, and the persistent consequences of Hurricane IRMA.

The Economic, Social and Cultural Council of Saint-Martin acknowledges the Collectivity's intention to undertake a more comprehensive tax reform aimed at modernizing the territorial tax system, making it more transparent, more equitable, and better adapted to the economic and social realities of the territory.

Addressing the 2026 draft Initial Budget of the Collectivity of Saint-Martin, the CESC notes first of all that the budget report presented by the Collectivity highlights the particularly constrained local and national context, which weigh directly on the preparation of the 2026 financial year.

The Economic, Social and Cultural Council of Saint-Martin takes note of the will of the Collectivity to implement, as of the 2026 initial budget, the multi-annual management of capital expenditure by means of program authorizations and payment credits (AP/CP).

The opening of a receivership procedure with respect to SEM Air Antilles requires the Collectivity, in application of the CGCT (General Code of Local Authorities) and the principle of caution, to assess the risk of depreciation affecting all the assets it holds in this company