The Bavarian state government may be rather negligent with taxpayers' money.
When it comes to overpriced real estate purchases, there is now trouble from the Supreme Audit Office.
Munich / Nuremberg - After overpriced property purchases by the Free State, the Bavarian Supreme Court of Auditors has drawn up proposals on how to avoid such so-called over-value purchases in the future.
Among other things, experts from the state “Real Estate Free State of Bavaria” (IMBY) should always be involved and the ministries, especially Bernd Sibler's (CSU) science department, should absolutely refrain from single-handed purchases.
The Landtag Greens assessed the statements as a rebuff for the state government.
"What is listed very politely in the ORH paper is in reality again a proper wad for a carefree, clueless and irresponsible handling of taxpayers' money," said the Green MP Claudia Köhler.
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Specifically, there are four acquisitions that have already been discussed several times and that benefited universities and research institutions: In the years 2018 to 2020, the state government, each sanctioned by a resolution of the budget committee in the state parliament, had the Carmelite monastery in Straubing *, a piece of land in Nuremberg, the so-called The Raspberry Palace in Erlangen and several pieces of land for a new information and advice center for renewable raw materials in Straubing (the so-called Nawareum) were purchased.
Problem: In some cases, the purchase price was over 90 percent above the market value.
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Particularly delicate with the ORH recommendations: In addition to being the lead manager at IMBY, the auditors recommend sanctioning each individual purchase with a separate law in future.
A method of financing must also be shown.
The aim is to uphold Parliament's budget rights.
That goes decidedly too far for the building ministry *.
For the first time this year, the ministry set the framework for real estate purchases, but does not want to create any “individual legal authorization”.
Otherwise, the Free State's ability to act when purchasing land would be too severely restricted.
The Greens fear that the series of expensive purchases will continue.
Why did the Free State of Bavaria pay 90 instead of 45 million euros for a university property in Nuremberg?
A question that Markus Söder was asked back in 2019 - and that became topical again in 2021 *.
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