Germering settles: Stadthalle and Stadtwerke have to pay back money

Created: 07/04/2022, 13:10

By: Klaus Greif

The town hall in Germering.

(archive photo) © tb

The city administration has made budget statements from the city hall and the public utilities.

One thing is certain, there were more grants in 2020 than needed.

Germering

– The budget accounts of the municipal utilities and Stadthalle are in themselves only a kind of formal act of coming to terms with the past.

After the annual financial statements have been approved by an auditor, the Treasury determines the amount of losses and investments that will be paid out as a subsidy and the amount of the budget carried forward for the next year.

From the point of view of the city of Germering, the accounts for 2020 that have now been presented for the two in-house companies were positive, as treasurer René Mroncz reported to the main committee.

In the case of Stadtwerke, this amounts to around 429,000 euros.

If one deducts additional wage costs of 86,000 euros that do not have to be covered by the budget, 342,000 euros remain.

However, the public utilities have to pay this sum back to the city.

Subsidy would not have been necessary at all

According to Mroncz, this result was only reached because the main committee decided in December 2020 to increase municipal subsidies for the indoor pool and leisure center sectors by 500,000 euros.

At the time, it was assumed that this was necessary because of the corona-related decline in visitors and the costs caused by the pandemic.

A fallacy, as it turned out later.

The grant would not have been necessary at all.

CSU parliamentary group spokesman Oliver Simon said that it was difficult to understand: "We pump in 500,000 euros that would not have been necessary.

And then we ask for money back.” Mroncz agreed, saying that it was definitely a small budgeting system error.

It was the same with the town hall.

Here, too, despite Corona, there was a surprisingly high positive result of 100,000 euros.

75,000 euros must now be paid back to the city, the rest can be carried over to next year as a budget carryover.

Sepp Dürr (Greens) summarized these number games with the sentence: "Coronally, Corona was definitely worth it." Chamberlain Mroncz only answered with a shrug.

Mayor Haas states this with "Let's leave it at that."

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