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Fast and prompt: Neufahrn buys 144 mobile air purifiers for schools and daycare centers

2021-08-24T17:06:33.641Z


Mobile air purifiers will also be purchased in Neufahrn for the coming school and kindergarten year. But whether they will arrive on time is in the stars.


Mobile air purifiers will also be purchased in Neufahrn for the coming school and kindergarten year.

But whether they will arrive on time is in the stars.

Neufahrn

- The basic decision to purchase mobile air purification devices for the schools and daycare centers in Neufahrn had already been made by the Neufahrn municipal council in July.

However, a specialist office should be called in beforehand, the number of devices for the daycare centers queried and a supplementary budget approved.

All of this happened so that on Monday the local council decided to procure 144 mobile air purifiers.

589,000 euros are set for this in the supplementary budget.

"We will not make it"

The Glasmann Ingenieure office from Pfaffenhofen had carried out an inventory of the two elementary and middle schools, for the day care center, lunchtime care, the two crèches and the kindergartens in the community area Setting up mobile air purification devices would be eligible. The purchase of these devices was still out of the question for the vast majority of local councils. However, the period until when these devices can be installed in the rooms was the reason for consultations and discussions in the municipal council.

It was suggested from various sides to do without a Europe-wide invitation to tender - which is actually given for this contract amount - by, for example, advertising separately for each school and daycare center.

“Why shouldn't that be building-related?” Asked Burghard Rübenthal (CSU), for example.

And why does it have to be advertised for daycare centers and schools together?

Christian Buschendorf (citizen for Neufahrn) said that it was already too late to be able to equip all rooms with air purifiers at the start of the school year in three weeks.

Norbert Manhart (FW) also saw it this way: “We will not make it.” That is why it must now be done as quickly and promptly as possible.

Six votes against

Building authority manager Michael Schöfer said that in cases like these, at least the offer period could be shortened to 15 days, which at least calmed the majority of the local councils a bit. And so the procurement of 144 air purification devices was decided - with six votes against: In addition to Barbara Auinger (SPD), there were four “green” local councilors who apparently shared the opinion of Christian Meidinger (Greens): Such devices would have little effect, they would be worn a mask and ventilation. Classroom teaching can only be guaranteed by the “political will” of the state government. And against it was Ozan Iyibas (CSU), who investigated whether all 144 listed rooms should really be equipped with air purifiers or whether one could not do without them in one or the other room.

589,000 euros will therefore be set as expenditure in the previously approved supplementary budget for the current year 2021 - but also 206,500 euros in grants. And because treasurer Johann Halbinger was there, so to speak, he had also included the expected increase in trade tax income by 2.5 to 8.2 million euros in the supplementary budget, but also took into account expenses for the renovation of the bridge at Kurt-Kittel-Ring.

Because the increase in trade tax income ultimately increases the allocation to the asset budget, the planned borrowing can be reduced - from 8.3 to 6.75 million euros.

The sentence "The cash position is good due to the remaining reserves" probably completely convinced the Neufahrner municipal councils to give the green light to the supplementary budget for 2021 without any request to speak and without any dissenting vote.

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Source: merkur

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