The city of Bad Tölz will once again put a lot of money into investments this year.
Numerous major projects that have started must be continued.
How the investments will continue from 2023 is open.
Bad Tölz - The financial situation of the city of Bad Tölz can be described as well-ordered.
2020 was already "corona marked", as treasurer Hermann Forster explained in the meeting of the finance committee.
“But it didn't turn out as bad as predicted.” On the contrary: Contrary to the trend, the city took 2.5 million euros more in trade tax and thus compensated for slumps in income tax participation, parking fees and tourism contributions.
As in the previous year, the debts were further reduced, the planned reach into the reserves was not necessary.
The budget for 2021 is also on solid feet.
The asset budget - which includes all investments - has a "record volume because there are many major projects in it" that will be continued or completed this year, said Forster.
These include the expansion of the Jahnschule (3.8 million euros), the new construction of the kindergarten (1.1 million) next door and the new construction of the apartment building on Königsdorfer Strasse (1 million).
All in all, around 12.8 million euros will be invested this year.
In 2023, an emergency stop will be applied for the time being
The measures that have been started and are unavoidable can also be found in the financial planning for 2022 to 2024.
The next year is “still easy to calculate”.
With everything else, with a view to the difficult to estimate financial development, they first “put on the brakes.
You then have to say what is to be implemented - and you will have to prioritize, ”said Forster.
“We have to consciously consider which priorities we want to set,” clarified Mayor Ingo Mehner.
The chamberlain is already expecting slumps in income this year.
There are already more requests for deferral or reduction of advance payments for trade tax than in the comparable period of 2020. Tourism and spa contributions are also likely to be lower.
There is a certain amount of compensation from the Free State here.
"But if the lockdown lasts longer, we can forget about the budget," said Forster.
He also calculates with less money for income tax participation - especially because of the corona-related short-time work.
Tölzer budget 2021 in figures
Important income
(in brackets: rate from 2020):
Property tax B: 2.89 million euros (2.84 million)
Business taxes: 7.5 million euros (7.5 million)
Income tax portion: 12.73 million euros (13.3 million)
Key allocations: 3.87 million euros (4.43 million)
Parking fees: 950,000 euros (1.07 million)
Tourist tax: 700,000 euros (800,000)
Tourist tax: 462,000 euros (462,000)
Major expenses:
Personnel costs: 12.4 million euros (12.3 million)
District levy: 11.29 million euros (10.53 million)
Deficit compensation for daycare centers: 2.27 million euros (2.21 million)
Allocation to the asset budget:
3.2 million euros (5.6 million)
Debt level at the end of '21:
9.04 million euros (7.35 million)
Reserves at the end of '21:
3.42 million euros (7.53 million)
The city benefits from the fact that personnel expenses are only increasing by 100,000 euros compared to the previous year because a wage increase did not come as expected in autumn 2020.
It is also good that the district is lowering the assessment rate for the district levy this year by one percentage point - "Thank God," said Forster.
If the tax rate had been retained, the city would have had to pay another 238,000 euros more to the district.
In fact, because of the increased allocation power, around 800,000 euros more are passed on to the district than in the previous year.
At the same time, there are fewer key allocations from the state.
The Greens are critical of the sale of land in the Hintersberg area as a budget item
The fact that times are getting tougher can be seen from the allocation to the asset budget.
These are the funds that the municipality has left over for investments after deducting all running costs.
That was 5.6 million euros last year, this year the chamberlain is reckoning with 3.2 million.
In order to really be able to cope with all investments, the city is taking a good 4 million euros from its reserves.
In addition, a loan of 2.2 million euros is planned.
At the same time, a good million in liabilities will be paid off.
In addition, property sales in the Hintersberg II development area are said to bring money into the cash register.
Richard Hoch (Greens) sees this post as critical.
“It has not been decided what is and what is not to be granted here in leasehold,” he said.
Until that was determined, he asked that the item be removed from the household.
Christof Botzenhart (CSU) found that too complicated, after all, the next city council meeting would decide on the Greens' proposal - before the final budget decision.
"I don't want to ask the chamberlain to unravel the whole set of figures," said Botzenhart.
That could always be changed if the Greens motion found a majority.
Approval of the budget with reservations
Johanna Pfund (Greens) is also "a great friend of labor savings", but did not want approval of the budget in the finance committee to be understood as a preliminary decision for the proposal of her own group. "We just put the reservation in the minutes," suggested Mehner as a compromise. With this in mind, the recommendation was passed unanimously to the city council. It meets on March 23rd.
