Full throttle through the crisis: Unterföhring will spend 479 million euros in four years

The municipality of Unterföhring will spend a total of 479 million euros in the coming years.

Despite corona-battered finances.

This is made possible by the (still) ample reserves.

Unterföhring - Unterföhring continues to draw on the full, even if the trade tax in the Corona crisis does not flow quite as abundantly as usual.

The municipal council intends to finance 31 large and small projects from the reserves over the next four years, including the new town hall.

Only the new sports park building (98 million euros) has been postponed to 2025 or 2026.

One month later than usual, the local council defines local politics for the next four years with the 2021 budget and the 2024 financial plan.

In the most recent meeting, he unanimously decided on the ambitious goals.

"There is hope that ..."

The trade tax income, which makes up 56 percent of Unterföhringen's income, is the stabilizing backbone of all planning: The municipality expects 60 million euros in 2021, and 60 million is also estimated in the next four years.

That is a lot compared to other municipalities - the city of Unterschleißheim calculates at 35 million - but Unterföhring has always been able to look forward to much higher amounts in previous years.

"There is hope that a surplus can be achieved again in the coming years," said treasurer Robert Beckerbauer.

The further developments are difficult to predict, said Mayor Andreas Kemmelmeyer (PWU).

Nevertheless, Unterföhring is planning a lot in residential construction, other major projects are the fire station, the building yard and the town hall (33 million) at the train station.

Debt free for the twelfth year

The municipality is now in its twelfth year of debt and can afford its enormous investments thanks to the large reserves.

31 projects for an estimated 478.5 million have been approved in the financial period up to 2024.

Of these, 236.5 million have already been spent.

Savings were withdrawn, especially for the school campus, which has almost been paid off at 163 million.

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Large and small construction projects are also pending in Unterföhring in 2021.

© Graphic: Municipality of Unterföhring

At the beginning of 2020 the reserves stood at 335 million, currently Unterföhring has 217.4 million on the high edge.

By the end of 2024, the reserves will melt to 22 million.

The budget for 2021 has a total volume of 206.5 million euros, 6.5 million less than in the previous year (273 million).

The district levy of 31.9 million accounts for 30 percent of the administrative budget.

Personnel costs account for eleven percent: around 12 million for 159 full-time positions, compared to 152 in the previous year.

Reserves are shrinking: "But the question arises as to how things will continue"

The postponement of the longed-for but most expensive project had caused debate in advance: the new sports park building including an indoor swimming pool (98 million).

The SPD was able to approve the budget and financial plan, "because we have come to terms," ​​said Thomas Weingärtner (SPD): "If we only have 22 million euros in reserves in 2024, the question arises of how things will continue." possible if new reserves could be built up.

"We will feel our way in the next few years and see whether we have to implement the sports park as planned or make compromises."

Second Mayor Manuel Prieler (PWU) hopes that it will be possible to shed new light on the subject of the sports center in summer.

“Living in old age” is also important, and participation in the community's demand survey among residents aged 55 and over was high.

Marianne Rader (CSU) is grateful "that we can continue our projects in this way despite the crisis."

The so-called “quarterly list”, a complete list of all ongoing project costs that the building authority and finance department update every three months, gave the municipal council better cost control.

"An extreme up and down"

Unterföhring experienced an "extreme ups and downs" as a result of the Corona crisis, said Mayor Andreas Kemmelmeyer (PWU): 70 million euros were budgeted for business tax in 2020, 90 million have been posted in the meantime.

Then the amount fell by 40 million, to just under 51 million euros.

After the supplementary budget had already been drawn up in autumn, the municipality experienced a surprising increase in trade tax of 25 million euros within a week.

“From a budgetary point of view, it was a very exciting year,” at the end of which the trade tax of 76.2 million was still above the expected 70 million.

The largest construction projects:

Sports park & ​​indoor swimming pool: 98 million (ready in 2025/26);

New fire station: 24 million (finished by 2023);

Building yard: 22 million (ready by 2022);

Renovation of the Bahnhofstrasse primary school: 6.4 million;

Renovation of the youth center: 8 million (by 2021);

Expansion of the sewage treatment plant: 13.1 million (ready by 2021).

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