Waltrop: Retirement pension for Moenikes – WA wants to revise council resolution

In its 44th and last meeting, the committee decided non-publicly with 18 yes to 13 no votes that Moenikes should receive a monthly pension of almost 3000 euros, even though she was only six and a half years and not the legally stipulated eight years as mayor was. Because her studies – Moenikes is a business graduate – counted towards the term of office.

Waltrop: Legal opinion was subsequently submitted to the parliamentary groups

At the first meeting of the newly elected council on November 12th, Bernd Schäfer, new council member of the Waltroper Aufbruch, initiated a public discussion by asking for a legal opinion from the administration. The CDU parliamentary group leader Andreas Brausen had mentioned this in a Facebook entry. Schäfer then criticized the fact that this legal assessment had not been made available to the other groups. That has now been made up for.

Now the Waltrop departure has even more doubts

The study of this legal assessment has apparently not been able to answer the questions about the legality of the monthly payment to Moenikes in the WA parliamentary group. On the contrary. Only then did it become known that it was not the city administration but Moenikes himself who commissioned this report. The reason was that the administration had concluded that 730 days of Moenikes’ study would have been eligible for retirement benefits. However, Moenikes himself was of the opinion that she should be allowed the maximum of 850 days. A lawyer commissioned by Moenikes is said to have confirmed this. The administration then recognized 850 days of study time.

Why should the taxpayer pay the bill?

What now causes incomprehension in the WA parliamentary group is the fact that the taxpayer in Waltrop is supposed to pay the bill for the lawyer appointed by the ex-mayor. After all, he demands almost 2400 euros for his services. Since it was all about personal matters, the Aufbruch representatives asked whether it was not a case of embezzlement if the city settled this bill and not Moenikes himself.

The “Causa Moenikes” will be discussed and decided in the main and financial committee (December 10th) and the council (December 17th).

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