Haars councilor Peter Siemsen (FDP) has made an urgency request.
He wants a concept for digital or hybrid sessions for the meetings.
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- Despite the pandemic, local politicians in Bavaria have to meet on-site for votes and resolutions in accordance with the applicable requirements of the municipal and district regulations.
"A situation that raises questions in times of home office and homeschooling," writes the Haarer local council Peter Siemsen (FDP) in a press release.
That is why he has made an urgent motion for the next meeting of the municipal council.
The community should develop a concept for digital or hybrid meetings.
Provided that the Bavarian state parliament is in favor of such a solution.
Meetings from the hall and from home
At the beginning of the week, the CSU and free voters presented a draft law in the state parliament.
The municipal bodies should be able to hold hybrid meetings, initially for a limited period until the end of the year.
This means that the members can have a say both in the meeting room and from home on the screen.
“An overdue step in the right direction,” said Siemsen, commenting on the current move in the state parliament.
While the digital implementation of appointments has established itself to a large extent in everyday work, politics is lagging behind here.
That bothered the liberal in the first lockdown in spring 2020.
So in Haar he is now pushing the pace.
Siemsen wants to bring the urgency motion to a vote at the municipal council meeting on Tuesday, February 23.
"We have to be technically ready when the law is passed," he writes.
According to the local council, the virtual meetings have another advantage: it is even easier for citizens to participate in the political decision-making process.
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