Financial planning celebrates its premiere in Andechs

Created: 02/17/2022, 17:12

By: Andrea Graepel

The future of the current fire station in Frieding and the whereabouts of rural youth there are currently not entirely clear.

A sale is in the air.

© Andrea Jaksch

The municipality of Andechs has approved its budget for 2022.

The debt will increase to ten million euros by 2025.

Andechs – The household of the municipality of Andechs continues to move in stormy waters.

"The situation is serious," says Josef Nießl, but it is not hopeless.

Nießl has been supporting the monastery community's budget planning for six months as an advisor.

This support had become necessary after the treasurer of many years retired and his successor left the town hall shortly afterwards.

Together with the new treasurer Marlisa Schweiger, Nießl presented a budget draft on Tuesday with which Mayor Georg Scheitz wants to break new ground: for the first time there is a five-year financial plan that looks to the future.

And after 20 years, the municipality got rid of its "non-household" (Nießl) custody account.

As reported, the money in the custody account (1.14 million euros) comes from the property sales in Rothenfeld, but belongs to the Free State, which processed the purchase at the time but never settled it.

For many years, the money was used to fill gaps in the household - always with the risk that the payment request would suddenly be on the table.

In order not to continue to fall into dangerous temptation, the money has now been transferred to the Free State - without a final invoice.

This is one of the reasons why a prescribed balanced budget management is currently not possible.

Nießl does not expect this to happen again until 2024. Nevertheless, he considers the draft, which also envisages debt of ten million euros by 2025, to be approvable.

However, the legal supervisory authority has the last word.

Municipality wants to sell land

To balance the debts, however, the municipality also wants to part with properties, including the old fire station in Frieding, since a lightweight hall is being purchased for the emergency services (we reported).

"But what will happen to the rural youth," asked Christian Pfänder (Bavarian Party).

The young people have their rooms in the roof of the old fire station.

These are not only in need of renovation, but also not barrier-free.

After it became known that the fire service was moving, concerns about the future of the club premises had become louder.

The council promised support.

One solution was to use the lower rooms after the fire brigade had moved out.

"We don't yet have a concept for rural youth," says Scheitz when asked.

Therefore, a sum for the sale of the property is planned in the budget: 1.2 million euros.

Pfänder did not think much of "selling off the silverware" and vented his displeasure.

The level of debt up to 2025 also seemed too high to him.

Borrowing of around four million euros is planned for the current year alone.

However, there are also some investments to be made, such as the renovation of the school roof (250,000 euros), the purchase of land in Maimoos (40,000 euros) is also planned, as well as the purchase of areas, among other things, for social land use - a total of 2.7 million euros.

Pledges considered it “difficult” to finance property purchases through debt.

He would have liked to cut back more often, considered, among other things, a hose testing system for the Frieding fire brigade to be superfluous and thus got a slate from council colleague and fireman Christian Kaiser (SPD).