The topics ranged from “cheerful” to “nice” to “unsuitable” in the contributions of the locals in the Lenggries citizens' meeting on Friday evening in the Alpenfestsaal.
It was the first citizens' meeting under the new town hall chief Stefan Klaffenbacher.
Lenggries
- At the beginning, the mayor provided comprehensive information about the development in the community since the local elections in March 2020. At that time the local council had increased from 20 to 24 seats because the Brauneckdorf had exceeded the limit of 10,000 inhabitants.
There were now 10 070 citizens in the community at the end of 2020.
The town hall chief also recalled the short term in office of his predecessor Markus Landthaler, who died completely unexpectedly after only a few weeks in office.
In the following new mayor election in September 2020, Klaffenbacher was elected with 58 percent of the vote in the first ballot.
As a result, a lot in the community was fallow due to the Corona, so that Klaffenbacher was only now holding the citizens' meeting.
Due to the pandemic, guest arrivals in Lenggries fell by 40 percent in 2020 and the number of overnight stays by 21 percent, reported Klaffenbacher. That would have had an impact on the number of visitors to the “Isarwelle”. These fell from around 59,000 in 2019 to around 21,000 in 2020.
In contrast, the changes in municipal finances were only minor.
The larger construction projects in recent history were all initiated by Werner Weindl, who was mayor for 24 years, and the former local council.
Special mention was made of the complete renovation of the former Gasthof Post for around eight million euros.
In addition to two new kindergarten groups on the ground floor, a multi-purpose hall was also integrated on the first floor, which is also used as a new meeting room for the municipal council.
"Overall, a significant upgrade of the townscape," said the mayor.
District Administrator: District levy will increase
District Administrator Josef Niedermaier praised the "impressive statement of accounts in a time that has left us all a little perplexed and still does".
The pandemic presented everyone with unexpected, new challenges.
The district administrator warned against “looking for someone to blame with the usual social reflex.
That doesn't get us any further either ”.
Niedermaier thanked everyone who had accepted losses and hardships and helped to get out of the matter again: “It certainly didn't go well, but it wasn't all bad either.” What the pandemic ultimately cost (“Testing, vaccinations “) Cannot be estimated at the moment.
Nevertheless, Niedermaier is convinced that the district levy will increase in the future as a result of new laws passed.
As an example, he cited the parents' legal right to all-day care of their children in schools.
“Here I am assuming that around 80 percent of parents will make use of this.
And the communities and the district will have to pay for it. ”The ongoing digitization in schools will also burden the district levy.
Citizens ask about traffic and public transport
Four written inquiries from citizens had been received at the meeting. Andreas Meyr complained about the excessive traffic and especially the speeders on the B 13 through the Winkl district. Mayor Klaffenbacher referred to a statement by Georg Fischhaber from the traffic department in the district office, whose core sentence was: "New signs, for example to reduce speed, leave the speeders unimpressed." So the authorities want to keep a close eye on the traffic there and the number of accidents . Meyr was far from satisfied with this, however, and he added personally at the meeting: "The best thing would be for us to finally get the yellow sign of a closed town and thus Tempo 50." He is well aware that this is extremely difficult be, "but I will continue to fight for it".
Anton Gerg called for an improvement in local public transport between Lenggries and Fall.
Klaffenbacher referred him to the new regional public transport plan: “There will now be significantly more buses.
In particular, the so-called mountaineering bus to the Eng will be more frequent in the future. "
Boys ask about the skate park
The appearance of four eleven-year-old boys was really nice and praiseworthy: "Mia san da Bene, da Tobi, da Leo and da Matthias, and want to know what happened to our signature list for a skate park?" The mayor promised them that the matter will be discussed in the local council in October.
The written request from Irmgard Gläsemer, who was excited about the “nonsensical custom” “which is maintained when a daughter is born with signs about 'sex-making'” was met with a joyous success in the hall ”: The woman emphasized that“ equal treatment of the sexes ”.
Thereupon the town hall chief announced with great laughter in the hall that the community had no way of influencing it: "Everyone can decide for themselves whether this is discriminatory."
So far, 216,000 euros have been collected for flood victims
Reiner Schwab had complained in writing that the promised information event had not come about because of the planned 5G location. "That has not been forgotten either, but has not yet taken place because of Corona," said Klaffenbacher. When Schwab then denounced an ominous radiation exposure in the sky at the meeting, the mayor pointed out that this was not a Lenggries topic and therefore had no place in a citizens' meeting. He said, "That sounds like a conspiracy theory to me," and cut off the speaker.
Then Adelheid Dreistein from Lenggries was allowed to present a “climate report” drawn up by 160 people, which is to be handed over to the new federal government.
In it she came to the conclusion “that the future of our children is no longer secure.
We will become extinct if we do not act now ”.
The mayor then concluded the meeting with a pleasant cause.
The “Lenggries helps” campaign has so far raised 216,000 euros for those affected by the flood disaster.
This “unimaginably high sum” is to be handed over to the village of Dernau in the Ahrweiler district (Rhineland-Palatinate) soon.
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