The district assembly passed the budget for 2021 with a large majority. Expenses of around 875 million euros are planned. If you factor out the expenses for district hospitals and homes, the budget for the coming year is 565.2 million euros. According to press spokesman Markus Mauritz, a larger part of the reserves must be released to cover these expenses. In addition, loans must be taken out. With the help of reserves and loans, it is possible to raise the so-called assessment rate by 0.9 percentage points to 20.2 percent instead of 1.4 percentage points to 20.7 percent. With the assessment rate, the districts and the independent cities contribute to the district’s expenses.
Over 90 percent of social spending
According to district treasurer Andreas Polst, 90.6 percent of the expenditure goes to the social budget. In the next year, social improvements would result in additional social spending of around 32.7 million euros in the Lower Franconia district. The intensive unit for child and adolescent psychiatry and the clinic on Greinberg are responsible for losses. Therefore, after the next five years, these deficits should be compensated from the camera budget. District Assembly President Erwin Dotzel made it clear that the district would not accept the ongoing losses. A discussion in the Bavarian Ministry of Health will soon clarify this.
A large majority supports the resolutions
The 2021 budget was approved with three votes against. CSU parliamentary group leader Stefan Funk saw the adoption of the district budget as a clear indication that the communal family stuck together in difficult times. The SPD parliamentary group leader Marion Schäfer-Blake took a similar view. “We’re a communal family together,” she said. The district budget is solidly set up. Bärbel Imhof, leader of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group, said that an increase in the levy to just 20.2 percent – while at the same time the reserves would be used up – could not be justified from a technical or objective point of view. The Kitzingen District Administrator Tamara Bischof stated on behalf of the Free Voters parliamentary group that it had been foreseeable for a long time that social costs would rise.
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