In the future, the city councils in Unterschleissheim will be prohibited from posting news on social networks during a meeting. Not everyone likes that at the council table.
Unterschleissheim - a Facebook post here, a tweet there: that's over now. In future, city councilors will report news from meetings via smartphone. The councils in Unterschleissheim are now prohibited from sending information from current meetings to social media channels or other digital platforms. The majority of the city council decided this in the new rules of procedure.
CSU parliamentary group spokesman Stefan Krimmer resisted. He believes that such a ban has “fallen out of time”, “the opposite should be the case, the city councils should inform the citizens very quickly and without delay. That is the job of the parties. "
Majority votes for the ban
SPD leader Thomas Breitenstein sees it differently: after the meeting, information and opinions can be published on the Internet, he said. "But during the session, city councils should be able to focus on the issues and discussions." Sending information during the session would create an advantage that would put the others under "public pressure," said Breitenstein. "We don't want that. It is important to us that the councils can concentrate on the meeting instead of having to keep up. "Krimmer countered:" This is against the interactive internet. "It makes sense to inform the citizens. In his eyes, it is "a testimony to poverty" if one assumes that the city councils are unable to "follow a meeting and at the same time formulate a few sentences." Krimmer asked to remove the ban, which the majority agree with 13:17 declined.
Social Committee may make decisions in the future
The city councilors have reduced the number of committee seats from twelve to ten and have not increased their allowances due to the impending recession and economic crisis, which has affected many companies and consequently the city treasury. However, the city council has created eight new positions: In addition to the CSU and SPD, the Greens now automatically receive a position for finance, construction, environment / transport, municipal utilities, youth sports, social affairs, culture and equality. The representatives of Free Citizenship, FDP / BfU and ÖDP vary when filling the fourth speaker position.
What is new is that the social committee has a more important role and even a decision-making character. It had originally been removed from the main committee because of increasing social issues. Now, with ten city councilors, he has the same members as all other committees. While Lissy Meyer (Greens) suggested that the social committee should "decide on investments and other expenses up to the amount of 300,000 euros" according to its important social issues ", Stefan Diehl (CSU) called for a limit of 50,000 euros. The majority of 19:11 voted for the limit at 300,000 euros. The budget of the Building Committee has been increased from 300,000 to 400,000 euros.
