The Greens in Unterhaching are campaigning for more transparency in city hall policy - and are seeing their first success.
Unterhaching
- It's a bit like drinking coffee.
Before enjoying the steaming cup, there is the creation process.
Pour hot water on the ground beans and let it run through the filter.
A symbol, the filter defines it: what gets through and what doesn't?
A question completely beyond coffee that the Unterhachingen council has dealt with.
From general noise protection walls to individual patio roofs, the majority of local political decisions in Unterhaching are made in the public meetings of the various committees and of course in the local council.
But who will notice if he does not make an effort to attend these public meetings or read the daily press.
Now the Greens are campaigning for more transparency in city hall policy - and are seeing their first success.
Insufficient documents in the information system
The criticism of the Greens: The town hall information system integrated into the community website always only briefly and officially briefly outlines the agenda items as such, but not what is behind them.
Neither the status report nor the draft resolution are visible to the citizens.
What encourages their lack of interest in following a local political debate live.
Speaker admits inadequacies
At the latest municipal council meeting, city hall spokesman Simon Hötzl admitted that “we see the inadequacies in the system”.
However, he added: “Everyone complains, but nobody knows anything better.” That is why Unterhaching will continue to work with the “more! Rubin” system developed by the Institute for Communal Data Processing in Bavaria (AKDB) for “one to two years”.
"If we reorient ourselves, it will be in dialogue," says Hötzl.
At the moment there is "nothing more optimal".
More information online than before
After all, the request from the Greens has already caused one thing: that the community is now putting more information online than before.
The so-called “meeting folder”, i.e. the advance information to the municipal councils, can now be found on the day of the respective meeting, albeit somewhat complicated, as a PDF file.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Because what is written does not replace what has been discussed and finally decided: the local politicians always have the last word.
