In Moosburg there are budget consultations - some of them without the public.
The reason is a recommendation from the district office.
But this is now receiving criticism.
Moosburg
- The budget for 2021 is to be discussed in the finance committee meetings on November 26th and 30th - but without an audience.
In order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the number of participants should be kept as small as possible, Moosburg's managing director Josef Mühlberger justified the city's decision on FT request.
That is why a “compromise” was reached: “The preliminary consultation is non-public, and the actual household consultation is public.” All of this is due exclusively to the corona pandemic, said Mühlberger.
“On the one hand we have to meet the needs of the city and get ahead, on the other hand we also have to take into account the Corona regulations.
This is now an attempt to find a reasonable compromise. "
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Philipp Fincke (FDP) urges transparency.
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Philipp Fincke, who has been on the city council for the FDP since May, sees it differently.
Among other things, he ventures his anger on Facebook: “I am immensely disappointed.
A few months ago I was sitting a row further back in the meetings myself and can therefore identify very well with the busy city council meeting visitors.
I have the feeling that the interest in local politics is being hindered more than it should be encouraged. ”As a digitization consultant, setting up a live stream is“ one of the most important issues ”for him.
In a first survey of the city councils, over 90 percent of the councils showed that they were open to this modernization.
“The only one who immediately gave me a very brisk refusal is the mayor Josef Dollinger.
He let me know that he was definitely not available for any variant and thus sees the topic buried directly. "Philipp Fincke is annoyed:" I consider such a non-solution-oriented approach to transparency and disenchantment with politics in Moosburg to be a big mistake and would like to accept remind the principle in Art 52 (2) of the Bavarian municipal code: 'The meetings are public, unless there are considerations for the general good or justified claims of individuals.' "
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Administrative boss Josef Mühlberger relies on a compromise.
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Green city councilor Alfred Wagner is also pushing for a public budget consultation.
"Protection against corona infections is very important.
Nevertheless, with every measure it must also be weighed whether the same goal can not be achieved with milder means. "With a view to the low number of visitors to the budget consultations in recent years and the generous space available in the town hall, he sees it" uncritical to the financial consultations to allow the public and above all the press ”.
And further: “If necessary, you could also set a numerical restriction on the number of audience seats.
This, too, would be a milder means of ensuring adequate protection against infection than locking out the entire public. "
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Alfred Wagner (Greens) wants public consultations.
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This year in particular, Alfred Wagner believes it is important “that the public and the press can also follow the process of preliminary budget discussions.
In the case of the expected loss of income, the public should also be able to be informed about how we city councilors discuss, weigh and decide on individual items in the budget. "
Josef Mühlberger takes the wind out of the sails of the accusations that they want to keep something behind a closed door, after all, the household would be open to the public anyway.
"These measures are purely due to Corona."
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