"Debt is worrying": Marzling faces difficult financial times
Created: 02/20/2022, 13:00
Saving will be announced in the municipality of Marzling in the future.
Symbolic picture © Rolf Vennenbernd
According to the treasurer, Marzling's mountain of debt is "worrying".
Austerity measures are now necessary.
Marzling
- The words on the 2022 budget were clear: "The debt is worrying," said Josef Nießl, Marzling's interim chamberlain and lecturer at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, at the municipal council meeting on Thursday.
The level of debt by the end of the year: probably more than eight million euros.
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The good news that Nießl announced: "You are not yet a candidate for Hartz IV for municipalities." If that happened, for example if a municipality were no longer able to act, according to Nießl applies: "Who pays, creates - and that would be the Government."
Business tax collapsed
The background to Nießl's drastic choice of words is primarily two facts: With the help of an exception, the municipality now has to bring 500,000 euros from the reserves into the property budget in order to then transfer a total of 983,300 euros to the administrative budget - because there is almost a million euros missing.
In addition to the reserves, Marzling is also forced to take out a loan so that business can continue: in the amount of around 1.6 million euros.
While the revenue from the municipality's income tax share is around 2.8 million, the situation in terms of trade tax looks different.
While the trade tax in 2019 brought more than one million euros into the coffers, the income has now collapsed to 469,000 euros.
According to Nießl, the municipality was hit hard.
This is a “financial meltdown”.
Reason: There are businesses in Marzling that would have reacted very "sensitively" to the pandemic.
Cut expenses, review voluntary benefits
About the numbers: the administrative budget is around eight million euros, the asset budget is almost 2.3 million euros.
So it means saving, which is also evident in the financial volume of the construction measures at 436,000 euros.
According to Nießl, luxury is no longer part of it.
He also proposes cutting spending, reviewing existing voluntary benefits and not accepting new ones.
He knows very well that it could be difficult to convey these major austerity measures to the citizen if suddenly something “no longer works” because there is no more money.
While Karl Göls (CSU/FW) was worried about an upcoming new road construction that was not yet included in the budget, it was important to Thomas Sellmeir (SPD) to finally start building a new municipal town hall, because the rent payments for the current domicile would affect the budget would burden for a long time.
When planning the construction, Sellmeir suggested adding around 50,000 euros to the budget – which he failed to do, however.
"Something like that doesn't work," as Siegfried Kleidorfer (PB) put it, due to the difficult financial situation anyway.
Richard Lorenz
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