The municipality of Poing buys 40 mobile air purification devices for the Anni Pickert elementary and middle school.
The municipality is spending around 75,000 euros on this.
Poing - The municipality of Poing buys 40 mobile air purification devices for the Anni Pickert elementary and middle school.
The local council decided unanimously at its meeting on Thursday evening.
Based on a gross unit price of 3629.50 euros, the total costs are 145,180 euros.
This is what it says in the sample calculation presented by the administration.
After deducting the expected state funding of 1750 euros per room (total: 70,000 euros), the community's contribution is 75,180 euros gross.
The devices should be procured as soon as possible, announced Mayor Thomas Stark (independent).
Poing: total cost 145,180 euros
As a long-term measure for permanent ventilation with a view to Corona, the installation of a fixed ventilation system (whether central or decentral, must first be checked), says Stark.
The municipal council also gave its approval for this with a score of 24: 0 (only Wolfgang Spieth, FDP, was absent from the meeting).
The administration will now examine different variants and determine the respective costs.
According to Stark, preference is given to those in which small buildings are built next to the existing school building, from which the ventilation ducts are drawn into the classrooms and other rooms.
Advantage: "There is less interference with the facade here," says the statement from the building authority of the municipality of Poing.
However, the implementation will probably take a few years, said Stark.
The goal is a permanently installed ventilation system
As a temporary solution, the municipality will therefore purchase mobile air purifiers.
For this purpose, the administration has obtained offers from two companies - the one that already has three mobile devices in the Anni Pickert School and the one that has equipped the Pliening elementary school.
However, the latter does not offer the devices for leasing, but exclusively for purchase.
However, these meet the noise level of a maximum of 40 dB (A) required in the funding guidelines, which the others who are already in school do not.
In other words: The new devices are quieter - with high quality with HEPA13 or 14 filters that filter viruses out of the air, explained Thomas Stark.
Furthermore, leasing devices from a rental period of three years are more expensive than buying.
Local council Poing: unanimous vote
All municipal council groups were in favor of purchasing the 40 mobile air purifiers.
Also the CSU, which had rejected this in autumn 2020.
At that time, so local council member Franziska Langlechner from the CSU, it was said that children were not particularly at risk from Corona.
In the meantime, science has new knowledge, and there is also a new situation with the delta variant of the virus.
“That's why we're voting for it now,” announced Langlechner.
“Our primary goal is the best possible protection for children and young people.
Mayor Thomas Stark
Günter Scherzl (FWG) warned at the meeting that the devices in the school actually have to be switched on.
This is not the case with the three current devices.
As reported, the headmistress Eva Guerin described that the current air purifiers remain switched off, especially at the request of the students, because they are too loud and annoying.
Mayor Thomas Stark said in the meeting on Thursday evening that he had spoken to the school management and they assured him that they would accept any decision by the local council to set up and operate the equipment.
Stark: "There will be no boycott."
Local council Poing: applause from visitors
After the unanimous resolutions, there was applause from visitors to the municipal council meeting, including members of the parents' council of the Anni Pickert School. Mayor Thomas Stark emphasized: “Our top priority is the best possible protection for children and young people. We have an obligation to do everything we can to contain the spread of the pandemic. ”The two other primary schools in Poing already have permanently installed air purification systems due to their new buildings.