Mayor Huber starts: skirmishes with the district administrator
Created: 05/25/2022, 16:00
By: Bernhard Jepsen
Keeping an eye on the mayor: Reinald Huber (at the lectern) with Andrea Jochner-Weiß (in a gray and black blazer) and Deputy Mayor Rudi Ottl (right).
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Orderly finances, good infrastructure and constructive cooperation in the municipal council: in Obersöchering everything is going smoothly in local politics.
In any case, there was no "exciting topic" at the citizens' meeting.
Only the mayor and the district administrator exchanged blows.
Obersöchering
– "That you're still inviting someone from the district office?" Andrea Jochner-Weiss caused laughter among the around 80 visitors to the citizens' meeting at the beginning of her welcoming address.
The district administrator's question was directed at Reinald Huber.
The mayor is known to be someone who speaks his mind openly – also with regard to district politics.
There is a lot of fun in the dialogues between Huber and Jochner-Weiss, but there is usually a grain of truth in the teasing.
An example: "We have the highest district levy in Bavaria," Huber stated in his statement of accounts - supplemented with a postscript towards the district administrator: "Thank you for that." The answer from Jochner-Weiss was not long in coming: "Please!" Huber raved whether Obersöchering should not be detached from the district.
Of course it was just a joke, but the district administrator apparently didn’t go down too well: “If you say you don’t need us, dear Reinald, then do your own waste disposal, please rehabilitate the district roads yourself, build your secondary schools yourself, judge yourself an office for security and order and so on and so on.” Huber's reply: “These are keywords that you have with you in every municipality.
But in Bavaria they say: 'That's fine'."
Huber: "You can't spend money that you don't have."
Huber later spoke of his personal "quarrels" with district politics: "You just can't spend money that you don't have." Post” confessed: “After all, the money doesn't belong to me, it belongs to all of us.” The Obersöchering fire brigade also felt the effects of thrift.
The Florian disciples would "do a great job", praised Huber - but: "I don't support them in everything." Specifically, it is about the purchase of a new, not exactly cheap fire engine.
The council has again reversed the decision.
Huber spoke at length about the municipal financial situation.
The bottom line: Obersöchering – with 1,597 inhabitants, the community is just under the 1,600 mark – is financially in good shape.
The municipal budget is solid.
Converted, every citizen has a balance of around 645 euros.
"I think we managed reasonably well," said Huber.
"Quite far" in terms of broadband expansion
In his report, which lasted almost an hour and a half, the head of the town hall covered a wide, thematic arc: Among other things, Huber spoke about the water supply ("My big wish would be my own well"), about nameless letters that were received in the town hall ("They will be destroyed"), about the elementary school (“We will never give them up”), about the standard land values (650 euros per square meter for residential building land), about the broadband expansion (“We’ve come a long way there”) and about conversions in the slaughterhouse, which are necessary due to EU regulations .
When asked by a meeting participant, Huber also explained why Obersöchering's new town center building was not equipped with PV modules on the roof.
This was refrained from, among other things, for fire protection reasons.
As is well known, the municipality is planning with investor partners on the former gravel pit site on the B2 the construction of a solar park - according to Huber an ideal place because the pit would not be suitable for residential development, for example.
The "majority" in the solar project should remain with the municipality.
"But nothing has been signed yet."
Lots of projects in the coming years
And what does Obersöchering's future look like?
"We have a lot planned," Huber announced, referring to the development of a new residential area south-west of the core village, the renovation of the school building and the planning for a club barn.
Huber's final words after two hours of assembly: "We are all a community.
Not everyone is perfect, but unique.
Look at each other."
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