The Münsingen Greens are concerned that the community will no longer have any money for compulsory tasks in the future.
Therefore, the costs for the community center should be limited.
Münsing
- The Green
Councilors
Christine Mair and Professor Dr.
Matthias Richter-Turtur would like the community to cap the costs for the planned community center with town hall at 14 million euros.
The municipality is currently assuming 21.5 million euros.
The motion of the two Green municipal councils - the third member of the parliamentary group, Anja Ruhdorfer, has not signed - is to be dealt with at the meeting of the finance committee on April 27th, which deals with the budget.
The motion will be negotiated on April 27th
The local council agreed on this at its meeting on Tuesday evening, in which Mair had made the request. You and Richter-Turtur fear that the community center will blow up the financial power of the community. “The many urgent compulsory tasks are paramount and must not be postponed into an uncertain future,” they explain. Capping investments is common practice in other municipalities, said Christine Mair. The city of Geretsried, for example, has made a big contribution to the Steiner Bürgerhaus project.
In all preliminary planning and calculations for the Münsingen town hall with community center, treasurer Hubert Kühn assumes state subsidies and a sales tax refund.
In the opinion of the Greens, however, it can be foreseen that the state funding will not be received in the expected amount.
An input tax reimbursement by the tax office is "very unlikely", so that the municipality would have to take over this share of the financing.
In addition, increasing construction costs can be expected.
The rising price of wood is a factor of uncertainty
Mayor Michael Grasl (Free Voters) admitted that the construction costs, especially due to the sharp rise in the price of wood, are a factor of uncertainty. A cost update by the planners, the Peck Daam office, should be available by the finance committee meeting. At the same time, the town hall chief made it clear: “We are welcome to talk about cost control, but we cannot always question our own planning, otherwise we will go in circles. And rescheduling also costs money ”. Georg Sebald (voter group Ammerland) asked the Greens representatives to stop “giving shop window speeches every time”.
In preparation for the budget deliberations on April 27, the two Greens would like to have clarified a few questions.
They are concerned with the follow-up costs for the investment, maintenance and operation of the new community center, with the current status of subsidies and input tax refunds.
They also question the cost-benefit ratio of the underground car park, the probable future cultural budget and sums that have not yet been planned, such as for underground car park pay machines.
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The Greens are also addressing more far-reaching topics for the next few years. They worry whether there are enough childcare places in the community, whether the offer for senior citizens needs to be improved in the near future, and whether the town hall has already given some thought to the parents' right to a full-day place in primary school from 2025 want to follow.
Tanja Lühr
As reported, the taxpayers' association is interested in how the cost explosion at the Münsinger community center could come about. Mayor Michael Grasl has now answered the association's questions. In 2018, the municipality assumed gross construction costs of just under 13 million euros. It was not until 2020 that more precise calculations by the specialist planners, including risk surcharges and ancillary construction costs, would have been available, writes Grasl. The amount currently in the room of 21.5 million euros can be reduced, for example, by reducing the outdoor facilities. The taxpayers' association also wanted to know why the municipality was employing a project controller for around 5,000 euros a month. For a project of this magnitude, this is "urgently necessary" from the point of view of the municipality, answers Grasl, especially since the building authority is overloaded.The underground car park for around 6 million euros gross is also necessary, he replies to another question. The government of Upper Bavaria recommended it as a funding agency. Without an underground car park, the municipality would not receive any building permits.
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