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Now it's time to save: the budget consolidation working group will meet in Dachau on Thursday

2021-04-20T11:09:59.928Z


The City Council's “Budget Consolidation Working Group” will meet for the first time on Thursday. Regardless of this, the political groups continue to submit expensive proposals. Mayor Hartmann is therefore “not so optimistic” that the savings advice will be successful.


The City Council's “Budget Consolidation Working Group” will meet for the first time on Thursday.

Regardless of this, the political groups continue to submit expensive proposals.

Mayor Hartmann is therefore “not so optimistic” that the savings advice will be successful.

Dachau

- It would be nice if you as a cyclist could get around town safely and easily anywhere or directly to Munich. When as a citizen you could stroll along the streets under shady trees and find out more about funding opportunities for climate protection measures.

But: These dreams are expensive or - if they are funded by the Free State - are tied to conditions that make implementation as good as impossible. For example, the alliance for Dachau had applied for the city to examine which cycling measures would be suitable for the special funding program “City and Country”. Response from the administration: none, as the grant from Munich is linked to the requirement that the project be implemented by December 31, 2023. This time frame, said Mayor Florian Hartmann, cannot realistically be kept. "The award procedure alone takes months!"

Just as utopian is the idea of ​​the Alliance for Dachau and Alliance for Karlsfeld to find a connection between Dachau and Karlsfeld west of the railway as part of the planning of a bicycle superhighway between Munich and Dachau - with a tunnel under the B 471 as an extension of Joseph-Effner-Straße. This route - even if it were not suitable for a cycle expressway to Munich - definitely represents a significant improvement in the cycle paths from Dachau to MAN / MTU.

OB Hartmann, however, shook his head. The chronic staff shortage in the civil engineering department is only a secondary reason why this connection will not be built in the foreseeable future. In addition, there is above all: “The construction of a tunnel with the approval of the state building authority? How is that supposed to work? ”Apart from that, the required space would not belong to the city at all. And considering a cooperation with Karlsfeld, as suggested by the alliance, makes no sense at all, according to traffic officer Volker C. Koch (SPD): "They have even less money than we do!"

So that something changes in the Dachau budget situation again in the medium to long term, the “Budget Consolidation Working Group” of the city council is to meet for the first time on Thursday. When asked, the mayor explained that the rules of the game would first be agreed on how the committee would decide or make recommendations. In further meetings it should then get down to the nitty-gritty and set priorities: What else does the city want to afford? What else can she afford? Basically, the mayor thinks: “You can always save, every household has air.” But he personally does not see “the very large leeway”, which is why he is “not so optimistic” that the city councils actually focus on “creative” and from will agree with all of the savings that have been shared. But be surethat you want to advise openly and without time pressure.

The deliberations will no longer focus on whether the city should become greener. The application by the SPD and the alliance to develop a concept to increase the tree population in the city area already received its (narrow) majority - even if CSU spokesman Peter Strauch said: “We shouldn't spend any more money if we haven't even met with our working group to have."

Source: merkur

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