After two special meetings, the Freising budget draft in 2022 was ready.
Now the finance committee has passed the “special” figures.
Freising
- There was no longer any need for much discussion, the "special" budget, as Lord Mayor Tobias Eschenbacher described the budget, was unanimously acknowledged.
The administrative budget comprises 140 million and the property budget 120 million.
The 2022 budget is special because, in a year in which tax revenues flow a little less, a district levy has to be paid, which is based on years with very high revenues, explained the mayor.
In numbers: 42.1 million euros will have to be paid to the district in the coming year.
The consequences
All of this has consequences, as Kämmerer Matthias Nogly explained: With revenues of 27.7 million euros from trade tax, they are below the level of the years since 2014. 35.8 million euros will be received from income tax, 8.3 million euros participation in sales tax, 5.1 million from user fees and 5.9 million from property tax.
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Nibble on the reserve
Because this is offset not only by the district levy, but also by personnel expenses of almost 40 million, in the coming year there will not be enough for the actually prescribed transfer from the administrative budget to the property budget. On the contrary: you have to shovel almost 25 million from the assets into the administrative budget to cover current expenses. This in turn means that you have to take 14 million euros from the reserve and most likely have to take out loans amounting to 47 million euros. This is the only way to have 16.5 million euros available for civil engineering work (for example the redesign of the city center) and almost 60 million euros for building construction work (asam renovation, stone park schools, daycare centers, schools and housing). That then leads, so Nogly, to a debt level of 69,5 million euros at the end of 2022.
The credits
The financial plan provides for further borrowing so that the city's mountain of debt will increase to 128.2 million euros by the end of 2025.
Nogly's recommendations: cut expenses and voluntary benefits, do not start new projects for the time being, stretch or postpone investments.
The speaker
Financial advisor Monika Schwind (FSM) emphasized that nothing new or unusual had been planned - and she was happy about that.
Because from 2024 you can see the valley again from the peak of investments and debts, you can "approve of the 2022 budget" with a clear conscience.
Now that the finance committee has taken note of the budget, it will vote on it soon and recommend it to the city council for adoption.
All of that will happen later this year.
