Participate in meetings in person or attend online: The Tegernsee city councils should have a choice.
It still has to be checked whether and how this is technically possible.
Tegernsee
- The Tegernsee City Council wants to try it out. Only Andreas Feichtner (CSU) voted against the recommendation by Mayor Johannes Hagn (CSU) to examine the technical possibilities for the implementation of hybrid meetings and to create them for the time being on a trial basis. The administration has already obtained a specific cost offer. According to this, the technical support by a company costs around 2000 to 3000 euros per session.
The experts are familiar with the situation: They also support the city at the mountain film festival.
It is being checked whether the technical requirements can be created in the town hall and also in the Quirinal parish center, where the city council has met since the beginning of the pandemic in order to be able to maintain the necessary intervals.
Mayor Hagn said that a building committee meeting could be a test run.
The committee members could be in the room and the other city councils could be involved.
In principle, the city council had already dealt with the subject of hybrid meetings in March.
An inquiry via e-mail showed that only four city councilors absolutely wanted to be present at the meeting, all the others would take part online, Hagn said.
How important is presence?
Nevertheless, the decision to examine the feasibility was preceded by an intensive discussion.
Florian Kohler (citizen list) warned against simply giving up compulsory attendance.
"Presence also shows commitment," he said.
In the many online discussions that he conducts professionally, he experiences that participants simply leave their place in between.
Now that the pandemic has apparently and perhaps finally subsided, there is no need to force the issue now.
High cost for every session
Thomas Mandl (SPD), on the other hand, thought that the city should set a good example in the “mega trend digitization” and develop routine with the technology.
This gives her the freedom to hold meetings even in difficult situations.
He does not attach great importance to physical presence: "In auditoriums, the participants are often physically present, but mentally withdrawn." Commitment can also be established online.
He is only skeptical because of the high costs.
These, in turn, are relative for Ursula Janssen (Greens).
The sum of 3,000 euros is minimal if you look at the Corona disaster in Gmund: “That was a disaster.” From a health point of view - which weighs the heaviest - but also economically.
The city council should definitely try the new technology.
A stable network is a prerequisite
The decisive factor will be whether a stable WLAN is guaranteed, Hagn made clear. Only the technical test and the test run have now been decided. Only then will the city council decide whether its meetings will also take place in hybrid form in the future. On the same evening, the Gmund municipal council dealt with the topic.
