The municipality of Poing pays corona aid to associations to compensate for canceled events and costs.
A signal for the preservation of volunteer work.
The municipality of Poing pays financial corona aid to four local associations.
Mayor Thomas Stark announced this (non-party) in the local council meeting on Thursday evening.
The total amount of the grants is 22,000 euros, which would be paid out as follows: 8,000 euros to the boys' association, 7,000 euros to the family center (plus 3000 euros donation from the VR Bank), 5000 euros to the music band and 2000 euros for the club cartel.
Poing: Financial aid for four clubs
According to Stark, the money comes from the festival that was canceled due to Corona.
For this, the municipality spends around 75,000 euros per year (for example for the honorary reception and the senior afternoon), said the mayor.
He reported at the meeting that the community had written to all Poingen associations in May with the request to make an appointment if they needed support because of Corona and the associated cancellation of events or income.
Stark had already presented the idea of the Corona aid package, which was intended as a small support for voluntary work, at the constituent meeting of the newly elected municipal council at the beginning of May.
Further financial support
Now the mayor reported that nine clubs had asked for help.
Three of them asked for grants for events in autumn or for the rent for the triple hall to be waived.
Due to the ongoing corona restrictions, these planned events were ultimately canceled, said Stark.
Another association helped a donation, another the waiver of the rental costs for the community transporter.
Amounts do not cover actual costs
So in the end there were four clubs.
According to Stark, they have all demonstrated their expenses, their losses and their lack of income and the effects on club life.
According to the mayor, the boys' association, for example, has “invested a lot of money in the maypole parlor” that is set up on the fairground.
After the first lockdown and because neither the maypole watch nor the maypole party were possible, the club had thought of renting the hut to other clubs.
But that was and is not possible because of Corona.
Thomas Stark said in the local council meeting on Thursday evening that the amounts paid out would not cover the costs at any club.
That was also not intended.
With the voluntary Corona aid fund, however, "the municipality of Poing wants to make a contribution to maintaining our club life, which is characterized by great voluntary commitment, even in these difficult times," said the mayor.