Against three votes from mayors, the district council yesterday approved the new budget for the planned Herrsching grammar school - 87.04 million euros.
Some district councils are more likely to assume 100 million.
Some other things, however, do not work out the way that high school supporters would like.
Herrsching / Starnberg -
“A dreamy school at nightmarish costs.” This sentence by District Councilor Albert Luppart (Free Voters) describes the Herrsching grammar school aptly, after the costs have now risen to 87.04 million euros - and possibly a little more until the opening will rise.
The district council, however, stands by earlier decisions and its word, yesterday it approved against the votes of the mayor Dr.
Brigitte Kössinger (Gauting, CSU), Bernhard Sontheim (Feldafing, Free Voters) and Rainer Schnitzler (Pöcking, Free Voters) both the current cost calculation and the next steps.
The school has cleared this hurdle, but not others.
The updated plans (we reported) were undisputed in the district council, and neither was the further progress.
More concrete plans are now to be made so that the building permit is possible in the second half of 2021 and an opening in autumn 2023. The buildings were slightly moved, driveways changed and break areas relocated, mainly because of the biotope.
Details of the basic principle of the learning house did not change.
The costs, on the other hand, are clearly on the minds of many district councilors.
Harald Schwab (CSU) applied for the “heart project” of his party that ten percent should be saved.
The CSU is behind the key project, "we can't go back," he said.
Everyone was aware that the school would be expensive.
Similar is the assessment of the SPD: The school has a "future-oriented educational concept", Tim Weidner promoted for the grammar school - and currently there are loans almost free of charge.
In addition, the district is still free of debt.
Martina Neubauer (Greens) rejected the CSU proposal, which was ultimately very narrowly accepted, as "absurd" because it implied that it had not been properly planned.
The grammar school is one of the most important educational projects in the district alongside the technical college and grammar school in Tutzing, not the most important, as Schwab classifies it.
Anne Franke (Greens) called for the expansion of the railway underpass in Königswiesen to be avoided in order to have money for the grammar school.
But nobody went into that.
The costs are “suboptimal”, said FDP parliamentary group leader Willi Boneberger, but a ten percent saving should not be at the expense of quality.
The FDP has always been at the “exclusive location” for the school.
The opponents, the three mayors and possibly some district councilors, who did not vote against the bill or were not there, reject the project because of the costs that the municipalities have to pay through the district levy.
Because of the comparatively low funding, because the district is building more modern than the Free State considers necessary, according to treasurer Stefan Pilgram up to 70 million euros, which the district has to raise.
This is feasible, thought District Administrator Stefan Frey, of course that had been calculated.
A vote for the project is "a brave decision that we can cope with financially".
Educational projects shouldn't be collected halfway, he emphasized - and also at FOS and Gymnasium Tutzing (both projects with costs of well over 20 million euros) don't let up.
The district council authorized Frey to sign all the necessary contracts for the next steps.
The construction committee of the district council will deal with the details of the construction, and there is still a lot to come.
In six months the question will probably be whether the grammar school should not be built in four classes immediately (four classes per grade).
Then the new school requirements planning is available, from which it is expected that again increasing numbers of pupils can be expected.
The Ministry of Culture rejected the district's wish to appoint a headmaster as soon as possible to take part in the planning and construction.
Pilgram reported from a conversation a few days ago that the director is to be determined one year before commissioning.
Whether, when and where there should be so-called transition classes at other schools that move to Herrsching in 2023 (or later) will be discussed among school principals in November.