The city will reimburse part of the lost parental contributions to the providers of the day-care centers.
Puchheim - Although there was clear dissatisfaction with the state taking the municipalities into liability without being asked, the city council finally decided unanimously to share the costs.
The city bears 30 percent of the fee losses, the rest of the Free State.
After a few weeks of lockdown, the state government decided not to be able to charge parents for closed kindergartens, crèches, after-school care centers and lunchtime care.
The contributions already paid for January and February should be reimbursed by the institutions, whose loss of income is in turn compensated by the state and municipalities.
There is a flat-rate reimbursement that is independent of the fees actually charged and is between 68 euros (short lunchtime care) and 300 euros (crèche place).
The day-care centers can decide for themselves whether they will reimburse the contributions and seek state help for this or not.
The regulation only applies to children who are cared for in emergency care for no more than five days a month.
In Puchheim, almost 30 percent of daycare children were in emergency care in January, but only every 20th elementary school pupil and one per cent of middle school pupils.
Since all sponsors - churches, charities, private individuals - want to participate in the reimbursement, this results in an estimated cost of 50,000 euros for the city for January and February.
Since the lump sums do not cover all the institutions' loss of income, half of the deficit that has arisen, presumably around 30,000 euros in total, is borne by the city budget. OLF PASCHEN