A heated debate broke out in the Hallbergmoos municipal council about the feasibility study for two new fire stations.
A local council threatened to leave the meeting.
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- The first council meeting of 2021 began with a minute's silence for the late Hallbergmoos mayor Harald Reents - and almost resulted in a scandal.
In the heated and confused debate about the feasibility study for two new fire stations, a local council even threatened to leave the meeting in protest.
Agree or take note?
“Nothing will change, regardless of whether we vote on it now or later with a new mayor,” said Vice-Mayor Helmut Ecker before the discussion.
A "later" would have been better in retrospect.
Because the fronts between “fire brigade lobbyists” (Heinrich Lemer, FW), who pressed for approval, and those councilors who only wanted to “take note” of the feasibility study because of the unclear budget situation, clashed violently.
These are huge sums of money that we are facing.
Green councilor Sabina Brosch
The study was developed from the space program approved at the beginning of November and was intended to provide clues about the costs for the new fire stations in Hallbergmoos and Goldach and - optionally - for apartments, a vintage car shelter in Hallbergmoos and a material store in Goldach.
Architect Stefan Rentz has now presented the data, even though, if you look at the content, it is not a feasibility study, but rather a supplemented room plan: As before, only a rough estimate with a cost accuracy of “plus minus 40 percent” is available .
For the Hallbergmooser Wache in Predazzoallee, Rentz expects almost eleven million euros;
for Goldach, where no location has yet been determined, of almost seven million euros.
The additional options totaled 2.5 million.
"We are talking about a total package of 18 million euros, in the worst case even 28 million euros," said Sabina Brosch, justifying the Greens' request to merely "take note of" the study.
She fears that consent could "trigger automatisms".
“These are huge sums of money that we have to face,” she reminded of other mammoth projects such as building a school building and redesigning the town hall.
Without a budget and an overview of the financial basis, your group could not agree.
Incidentally, "the coming mayor should carry this backpack with him".
Building authority manager pleads for progress
Heinrich Lemer (FW) also emphasized: “An approval must not trigger the commissioning of the planning.
We need a clear financial basis. ”There would still be enough time for that, said Lemer.
The municipality will not be able to start building the fire stations until 2024 or 2025 at the earliest, if there is consensus.
"We will not award any planning contracts until they have been on the local council," assured Ecker.
A lot of “preliminary work” is necessary.
“We have to get ahead,” said building authority manager Frank Zimmermann.
The strongest proponents of a "degree" and a fundamental decision were Helmut Ecker, Josef Fischer and Thomas Henning (both FW).
Christian Krätschmer (CSU) also reminded that hardly any other project had been examined so thoroughly and coordinated with experts and the local council.
And added: “I do not understand the heat of the debate.” Council newcomer Christiane Oldenburg-Balden (SPD) felt “downright run over.
We should go slowly and give new councils the chance to get information ”.
Ecker, however, opposed “turning the wheel backwards”, while Henning “turning in circles”.
We have been in a singular exceptional situation since March 2020 and we are discussing a glass house for fire brigade classic cars.
You can not be serious.
CSU councilor Marcus Mey
The words of previous speakers that all parliamentary groups had signaled their approval at a “preliminary meeting” - presumably the parliamentary group spokesman - annoyed Marcus Mey (CSU): “This body is where decisions are made.
If someone says again that someone else is not allowed to have a say because he said this or that yesterday, the council meeting loses its meaning.
Then I get up immediately and leave. "
Agreement on a common line
Ultimately, after a roll-call vote requested by Robert Wäger had been rejected, the council was able to agree on a common line with 17: 5 votes: The approval of the study presented for both guards was supplemented by the addition that this would not trigger any planning or costs will.
Providing three old-timer parking spaces for around 745,000 euros in the Hallbergmooser Wache was rejected by the council with a large majority (20: 2).
The warning from Marcus Mey (CSU) had apparently had an effect: “We have been in a singular exceptional situation since March 2020, and we are discussing a glass house for fire brigade classic cars.
You can not be serious."
After consulting Stephan Zobel, Goldach's fire brigade commander, who was a spectator at the meeting, there is no roofed material depot in Goldach, but the open space is kept.
The (company) apartments for active people in the Hallbergmoos fire station will continue to be left as an option.
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