A new kindergarten is to be built at Pollnstrasse 5.
Because the city councils did not finally agree on how big and expensive the new building should be, the project is now on hold.
Lord Mayor Florian Hartmann is angry.
Dachau
- “Great, now we don't have a majority for anything.
The thing is buried.
Whoever wants to understand that now.
For the children it brings us a long way forward. ”The last sentence from Mayor Florian Hartmann at the end of the most recent building committee meeting was bitter sarcasm.
The rest was true, however.
Unfortunately.
The history of the "thing" goes back to 2019. At that time, the decision was made to build a day-care center for six groups at Pollnstraße 5, at the height of Hackenängerstraße.
Sure, the city is growing, there are more and more small Dachau residents who need to be looked after.
And in order to do something good for the caregivers of the children, at the request of the CSU it was decided to build a second floor and to accommodate staff apartments there.
Alone: The big solution, i.e. the day-care center plus apartments, will be expensive.
In view of the “currently very dynamic cost development due to the pandemic”, it was so expensive that the city planning department wanted to submit the matter to the city councils again.
According to the calculations of the building authority, the small solution, i.e. the six-group daycare center plus an upper floor for daycare administration, would cost 6.74 million euros gross.
The daycare center plus five apartments for the teachers, a first and a second floor, on the other hand, would cost 8.9 million euros - and thus go well beyond the budget planned for the daycare construction.
The administration, including the mayor, therefore clearly tended towards the small solution.
Especially since Hartmann, as he admitted, is not that convinced that the apartments would actually make the search for care staff easier.
After all, it has not even been clarified according to which criteria the apartments should be allocated.
And the question of what happens to the tenancy, "if an employee leaves us, is not that trivial".
And the city's lack of money is absolutely by no means trivial: “We have to start prioritizing.
We can only spend our money once ”.
CSU spokeswoman Gertrud Schmidt-Podolsky, on the other hand, thought: “We need buildings to be well looked after.
But what we also need are educators. "In this respect, despite the high costs, she is" firmly convinced: We need the apartments! "
City Councilor Kai Kühnel (Alliance for Dachau) did not share this conviction, but found the estimated costs - for all solutions - too high.
The draft submitted by the building authority was "not very economical".
For example, why does the building need a 130 meter long, circumferential balcony?
These construction costs are simply “superfluous” and “the whole design is worth revising”.
Horst Ullmann (citizen of Dachau) referred to the currently cheap loans, whereupon Hartmann explained to him, "that the music is in the repayment".
And even if the apartments belonged to the city and generated rental income, it would "take years for it to pay for itself".
In the end there was no majority, neither for the big solution nor for the small one. The building authority manager Moritz Reinhold didn't want to look as black as his boss the next day. "My feeling tells me that we are going to build the day-care center anyway." He will therefore submit the subject to the city council again soon, "with a resolution that will finally get us ahead".
