Comment: When governing becomes uncomfortable

In 2021, the consequences of the Corona crisis will not be felt so strongly.

But even more so in the years after that.

Editor-in-chief Hans Moritz comments that some city councilors have still not understood the local basics.

Free - five euros into the phrase pig: “Money rules the world.” And with a lot of money it is much easier to rule.

However, city councils have found it easy in the past few years: the tax sources were gushing.

Many wishes could be fulfilled.

There is nothing wrong with that.

A municipality can reward itself and its citizens for the entrepreneurial success and hard work of its workers.

But these times should be over for now.

That means: governing becomes more difficult.

It is easier to build a swimming pool than it is to close one.

If the city councils have to cut or cancel voluntary services such as subsidies to associations, this puts the relationship between those in power and those in government to the test.

Distribution struggles will increase, the fault lines in the already fragile city parliament will increase.

Economic development will be a completely new challenge in Erding.

The city should focus on businesses that pay high business taxes.

As bleak as the prospects are, the more tempting is a challenge that will arise from 2024.

When the air base becomes a new district, Erding has to shoulder millions in expenditure on the one hand, but also the chance to reposition Erding in an innovative way on the other.

Municipal committees in particular tend to wave millions through and grit their teeth at the much-cited peanuts.

In the household consultations it was the desire for a warm room.

The debate has shown that even veteran city council members have not understood the basics of public procurement law.

No parliamentary group questions the fact that more needs to be done for the homeless in Erding.

But the way to a warming room, for which Second Mayor Petra Bauernfeind from the Free Voters stands, is - to put it carefully - adventurous.

Obviously, it is (also) about finding a new job for a highly deserved chairperson in refugee aid.

Two birds should be killed with one stone here.

It is important to stop this.

There is only one way: if the city wants a warm room, it has to put out a concept with a precisely defined job and qualification description, for which the sponsors can apply.

Who is then chosen by the city council decides who heads the warming room.

Everything else is post haggling.

If the CSU did that, there would be great indignation.

Bauernfeind should know that even in their own faction, colleagues clench their fists - still in their pockets.

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