Zoff in Kochel: At the second meeting of the new municipal council there was fierce argument. The Committee for Emergency Times was the main driver.
Kochel am See - In the Kochler town council there is a grating and cracking. That could not be ignored in the session on Tuesday evening. The disturbing noise from the loudspeaker system is still somewhat tolerable. When a local councilor goes to the hall microphone on the home stage, he has to pull a plastic bag over the microphone. If the "Corona contraceptive" is removed afterwards, it rustles again tremendously.
Zoff in the municipal council
An atmospheric noise of a very special kind now occurred at an actually unspectacular agenda item. The new municipal council was only supposed to confirm that the municipal council, which was still in office until the end of April, had set up a so-called committee for emergency times and had passed resolutions in circulation. "We followed a recommendation from the Ministry of the Interior," said Mayor Thomas Holz.
After the local elections there was only an emergency session
In other words, the local council had set up the emergency committee at that time without the entire body meeting. For this purpose, the signatures of the mandate holders were obtained in the circulation procedure. "We did not want to expose the town councils or the employees of the town hall administration to an impending infection," said the mayor. Now many seemed to have forgotten "what happened in the aftermath of the Corona crisis after March 15th".
"I am not a lawyer, but I was nevertheless elected to the municipal council," said free voter newcomer Frank Sommerschuh at the start of the discussion. The letter from the Interior Ministry is only a recommendation, according to the municipal council from Walchensee. "If someone advises me to jump into the lake, I won't do it either." The municipal code stipulates that the decisions must be taken in the usual way, according to Sommerschuh.
Klaus Barthel (SPD) had also made smart decisions about this agenda item and leafed through the manual of self-government published by the Hanns Seidel Foundation, which is close to the CSU. The long-time member of the Bundestag and Kochler newcomer to the local council is convinced: "The old committee should have decided on this point".
Young list local councilor Eduard Pfleger, who has been in the group for several periods and likes to sit back and relax at the beginning of a session, was hateful after these speeches. Time is a waste of time for this "rubbish". And: "We didn't start a coup with the emergency committee!"
Dispute over emergency committee during Corona
UWK local council and lawyer Jens Müller explained that lawyers may also have different opinions. He himself initially "disagreed" with the Committee on Emergency Times. It is all the more important that the decision is now taken retrospectively by the new body. He agreed to the procedure. "We haven't done anything reprehensible."
CSU councilor Hans Resenberger then closed the tiresome discussion with an application for rules of procedure. He gave the emergency committee critics along on the way: "I would have liked to hear you if one of us had infected another during this time."
"The words have been exchanged enough," said Mayor Holz, finally, voting. Only Klaus Barthel (SPD) as well as Frank Sommerschuh and Reinhard Dollrieß (both FW) opposed the proposed resolution.
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