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Freising District Administrator Petz: The district authority is being saddled more and more

2022-08-03T06:11:44.455Z


Freising's District Administrator Petz raises the alarm: The federal government is increasingly burdening the district authority, employees are slowly being "exhausted".


Freising's District Administrator Petz raises the alarm: The federal government is increasingly burdening the district authority, employees are slowly being "exhausted".

District

– Nothing but crises!

There was a mood of alarm at the most recent meeting of the IHK regional committee Erding-Freising in the Gräfliche Hofbrauhaus zu Freising: In addition to the impending bottlenecks on the energy market, the shortage of skilled workers, the (un)affordable living space, the deficits in the infrastructure and the bureaucracy are driving the companies in the airport region around.

Guest of the meeting: District Administrator Helmut Petz.

A "urgent question" from the assembled entrepreneurs to the Freising district chief was, according to IHK spokesman Florian Reil, after the meeting, "what initiatives are there from the district office against the excessive bureaucracy".

Petz's answer was passionate and very clear: the district authority was working on the attack itself.

Petz: More staff is not the solution

Petz: "We're not doing any better than the free economy." The federal government is increasingly burdening the authority, true to the motto: The district authority will do it.

"More and more tasks, but always the same staff," Petz added critically on Tuesday in an interview with the FT.

The solution, however, is not to increase the number of staff and to inflate the administrative apparatus, but rather not to burden the district authority with more and more.

In front of the IHK members, Petz called for a move away from the “better through more regulations” attitude.

District administrator calls for change in the culture of the authorities

But Petz also believes that a "cultural change" in the authorities is necessary.

"We don't have to do everything perfectly," he explained to our newspaper, "100 percent is enough." After more than two years of the pandemic, many employees of the district office were "exhausted".

If more and more tasks and demands were placed on the authority, said Petz, "I have to protect my people".

(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)

In the FT interview, Petz emphasized that a move away from perfectionism is essential, given the challenges that are emerging in the future.

“We have to get used to the idea that the current crises cannot be resolved so quickly.

We will have to get used to the crisis mode.

The crisis is the new normal.” Without counteracting this, Petz emphasized, “we are still choking on ourselves”.

At the meeting, the members of the IHK regional committee also made it clear "that laws are often not practical and that over-regulation is the wrong approach and slows down companies," as spokesman Reil reported.

Delaying the main route would have fatal consequences for Freising

Local public transport was also a topic of exchange between District Administrator Petz and the committee members.

Reil reported: "Above all, the latest impending delays in the construction of the second S-Bahn trunk line caused a lack of understanding." District Administrator Helmut Petz spoke of "fatal consequences for the connection to Freising and the airport" if the project, as feared, should only take place much later getting ready.

At the same time, the district must be multimodal, so that it is even easier to switch to different means of transport, said Petz.

Heinz: The airport region must remain strong

Otto Heinz, chairman of the IHK regional committee and IHK vice president, thanked the district administrator for the open exchange: "It is important that the local economy meets regularly with the political leaders in the region and discusses the current challenges.

Especially in a time of uncertainty for companies, it is all the more important that politicians recognize the concerns of the economy and promote economic action instead of slowing it down with new restrictions or regulations.

This also means that the airport region does not lose its attractiveness and remains a strong business location.”

You can find more current news from the district of Freising at Merkur.de/Freising.

Source: merkur

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