The establishment of a landscape conservation association is also being considered in the district.
The Eglingen municipal council decided to join after intensive discussion.
Egling
- The municipality of Egling will join the new landscape management association.
The pandemic committee, consisting of ten members, cleared the way on Tuesday evening with a 7-3 vote.
"I believe that we as a local authority will benefit greatly from this in the long term," said Mayor Hubert Oberhauser.
The municipality will pay around 3,000 euros a year for this - 50 cents per inhabitant.
The district is one of the last in Bavaria where there is no such association.
Its primary goal is to preserve the cultural landscape.
Everywhere farmers, municipalities and nature conservation associations sit at the same table with equal rights.
“People talk to each other and not about each other,” says Oberhauser.
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The mayor, who witnessed the debate in the district council, reported that the first attempts were not met with much approval from the farmers.
In the meantime, however, opinion has changed.
The positive effects would become more and more apparent.
The municipality of Egling in particular with its 74 square kilometers will benefit from this.
There are many bog areas and litter meadows that the new association could take care of.
Some local councils expressed reservations.
Resi Bauer (CSU) found such an association unnecessary because it works well in the community anyway.
“In the end, we just have some manager who wants to make a living,” she feared.
Oberhauser contradicted: There is no obligation for full-time farmers to have their areas maintained by the association.
It's just an offer.
And landscape maintenance could offer many part-time farmers a perspective.
If you want, you can continue to maintain your space yourself
Johann Meyr (Free Voters) was also unable to gain much from the proposed resolution.
He found that the machine ring responsible to date is "well positioned".
As for the situation of farmers, he painted a bleak picture: “I can only see that one after the other is stopping,” he said.
Oberhauser replied that this was precisely an argument to join the association.
"It is all the more important that care is organized."
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Heiko Arndt (CSU) spoke out in favor of joining.
It was Franz Josef Strauss who prophesied that farmers will soon be more responsible for landscape maintenance than for food production.
He likes the idea because that's the best way to bundle forces under one roof.
"Yes, it's true, it's a new structure again," he said.
“But in the existing structure, the situation is not ideal either.” Josef Bail (United Citizenship) also considered joining to make sense in principle.
“But I don't want active farmers to be impaired in any way.” In the end, the council voted against the votes of Resi Bauer, Jakob Bernlochner and Johann Meyr for membership.