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Finances – Controversial budget – Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen

The 2021 budget will split the Geretsried city council. A look at the voting result is sufficient for this: In the end, eight representatives refused to give their consent. “We have no choice but to reject it,” said Volker Reeh, spokesman for the Geretsried List (GL) in the meeting on Tuesday. Among other things, he justified his no with the savings proposals made by his group that were not taken into account. Except for Kerstin Halba, the SPD and two of the Greens did not want to support the budget either. There are also major reservations about the working group, which is supposed to put the budget situation back in order. Again, eight city councilors from the ranks of the GL, SPD and Greens voted against it.

The budget for results shows a minus of 5.7 million euros for this year, the financial budget of 12.6 million, summed up finance department manager Nadine Zikeli. The financial cushion, which currently still has a whopping 27 million euros, will melt away in the next few years and will be used up in 2023. The city wants to implement major projects by 2024 and spend more than 38 million euros on them without taking out further loans. The largest items relate to schools and childcare, such as the extension of the Stifter-Mittelschule (eight million euros), the establishment and increase of lunchtime childcare at the two primary schools (4.8 million) and the construction of the new large daycare center at Johann-Sebastian-Bach Street (five million). The renovation of Buchberger Strasse (300,000) and the funeral chapel (350,000), the loft extension in the town hall (1.4 million) and the completion of the indoor swimming pool parking deck (550,000) and Karl-Lederer-Platz including Egerlandstrasse (3, 8 million) also make a big difference. The Stein community center is also on the list with more than six million euros.

“We will have to work hard on the consolidation,” said Mayor Michael Müller (CSU), who saw the city as well positioned for this year. “I am aware that we have to clear the budget in the long term.” While SPD parliamentary group spokesman Hans Hopfner predicted that new loans would be taken out in 2024, the Greens showed the deep crack that is currently going through the parliamentary group. The new spokesman Peter Curtius was consistently “satisfied” with the budget, Detlef Ringer and Martina Raschke, who is now independent, voted against it. CSU parliamentary group spokesman Gerhard Meinl expected a “blue letter” from the district office as a reaction to the budget, but trusted the working group to turn things around.

It is clear to everyone that savings will have to be made in the future. So far, the working group, which has been praised as a budget miracle weapon, has only been heard that it should be composed of city councils and administrative members. Now its future head Thomas Schmid explained the details. The working group should determine, said the new controller in the town hall, what will be important for the city in the future and “what will not be”. Schmid is hoping for savings through leasing, outsourcing, centralized procurement and more intermunicipal cooperation. “The introduction of an e-file for simple processes can create freedom for the administration,” he explained using the example of digitization.

While Gerhard Meinl trusted the new control body to discuss “without resentment” and bring courageous proposals to the table, the SPD feared the city council would be disempowered: “If everything is left to the working group, there will be no more discussion,” said Hans Hopfner.

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