"Our goal is a high-level family center"

Created: 12/30/2021, 7:00 PM

From: Friedbert Holz

Hans Wiesmaier: The mayor looked back and ahead at the last council meeting of the year.

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Fraunhofer Mayor Hans Wiesmaier gave an outlook and a review of various projects at the last municipal council meeting of the year.

Fraunberg - At a time when there was still no virus terrorizing the country, it was a nice custom for the Fraunberg municipal council to go to the inn after its last meeting of the year. With half a beer and a snack, they said goodbye to the political year in good company. There was also a “special meeting” on Tuesday evening, as City Hall chief Hans Wiesmaier emphasized, but a little different: At the last meeting of the committee in the community center's public hall, each member was served a glass of wine at the end. And as a complement to the cool drink, Wiesmaier's warm words for the New Year followed.

Before he went into 2022, the mayor briefly looked back at 2021, which was coming to an end.

“We had 15 town council meetings, had 16 committee meetings and four site visits.

We have each completed four master plan procedures or are still in progress, processed at least 51 building applications and preliminary building inquiries in a timely manner - from apartment buildings to warehouses to the dairy cattle pen, even an art object was included. "

In the coming year, the administration has decided, there should be more contact with the Fraunbergers.

Three citizens' assemblies are already planned for March - a first step in the new future workshop for municipalities, "to demonstrate municipal identity on a pilot basis," as Wiesmaier put it.

The focus is on expanding the St. Florian children's home to ten groups in 2022. The roof structure is ready, said Wiesmaier, and there will soon be an agreement with the carrier, the Catholic Church. "Our goal is to set up a high-quality family center here. The building should also be ready for occupancy from the new kindergarten year in September." However, it is not yet certain whether the planned budget of around 3.1 million euros can be adhered to due to the current price development .

A lot is going to happen in schools in the near future, too. In addition to the urgent issue of improved digitalization, stationary room ventilation systems are being installed, with costs of around half a million euros, the municipality expects government subsidies of probably 80 percent. The previous oil heating in the Maria Thalheim school gymnasium will soon be converted to regenerative energy - just one element on the way to becoming a climate-friendly community. Fraunberg recently founded the new “Climate Initiative” project group. “After all, for us climate protection shouldn't be just an idea, but a knowledge. This topic will probably stay with us for a long time, ”said the mayor.

A lot of work in the new year will also bring the community's water supply and disposal with it. As is well known, Fraunberg is also aiming for a merger with the Holzland association in order to avoid supply bottlenecks. At the same time, the tender for the construction of a connection to the sewage association Erdinger Moos (AZV) is being prepared, which experts believe is the most economical and sustainable option. A new sewage treatment plant of our own would be far too expensive.

In addition, the construction of a "market hall of regionality" in Fraunberg is examined as well as the statics and substance of the Jäger property, which could one day serve as a meeting point for citizens.

More than ever before, Wiesmaier advised the councilors, “in a very insecure society, there is a need for people who take responsibility and stand by it”.

And he quoted Victor Hugo, a French writer, as saying "that nothing in the world is as powerful as an idea whose time has come".

If the implementation of the many ideas actually succeeds and Corona does not spread any further, then perhaps a cozy end to the local landlord will be possible again at the end of 2022.