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Despite the energy crisis: the city of Geretsried continues to promote ice sports

2022-10-05T15:14:30.897Z


Despite the energy crisis: the city of Geretsried continues to promote ice sports Created: 05.10.2022, 17:00 By: Susanne Weiss Cool air by the ice, warmth in the stands: The Heinz-Schneider Ice Stadium is an energetically complex and therefore expensive building. © Hans Lippert The ESC River Rats association should also receive funding from the city in 2023. That was decided by the main and fi


Despite the energy crisis: the city of Geretsried continues to promote ice sports

Created: 05.10.2022, 17:00

By: Susanne Weiss

Cool air by the ice, warmth in the stands: The Heinz-Schneider Ice Stadium is an energetically complex and therefore expensive building.

© Hans Lippert

The ESC River Rats association should also receive funding from the city in 2023.

That was decided by the main and finance committee.

The future is uncertain.

Geretsried – The city of Geretsried wants to continue to promote ice sports.

At its meeting on Tuesday, the main and finance committee agreed on a grant of a maximum of 235,000 euros for the ESC River Rats for the coming year.

With soaring energy prices and deteriorating finances, the decision is fraught with uncertainty.

In mid-September, the committee grudgingly agreed to increase the subsidy for the association for the current year from 96,000 to 200,000 euros.

As reported, he had to ask for help because he could not have managed the massive increase in operating costs on his own.

The city has renovated the Heinz-Schneider-Stadion for more than twelve million euros.

The club ESC Sportstadion operates it as a tenant.

The ESC River Rats association, on the other hand, is a tenant and is supported by the city as part of sports promotion.

ESC River Rats should also receive funding from the city in 2023

This is how it will continue in 2023.

Actually, the committee should also decide about the following years, but did not feel able to do so at the time.

On the table was a step-by-step model developed by the Budget Consolidation Working Group.

"It is based on the promotion of indoor swimming pools," explained Johanna Brauer, who heads the Department of Family, Social Affairs and Sport in the town hall.

Accordingly, the city supports 950 hours of use of the ESC as "basic supply in the cold season", i.e. from November to March, 100 percent.

In the following months, the city will assume half or a quarter of the costs in stages.

If the club wants to go on the ice in summer, it has to pay for it itself.

As the committee decided with two dissenting votes (Martina Raschke, Dr. Detlev Ringer, both Greens), the model will be used as early as next year.

However, Mayor Michael Müller warned that the city had to talk to the ESC about the future.

Because: The model was "created at a time when energy costs were not yet flying around our ears," says the head of the town hall.

The hourly rate is calculated with an annual "dynamization" of five percent.

"The operating association is currently assuming a 100 percent increase," Brauer noted.

The main and finance committee wants to continue to support ice sports

Ewald Kailberth (CSU) showed understanding that no one could say privately how the energy costs would continue.

"If we don't decide that today, we can bury ice sports right away," he emphasized.

Volker Reeh (Geretsrieder Liste) campaigned for the ESC: "We will not let the club die." The city has modernized and renovated the stadium.

"It would be the wrong way to think about how we close it," Reeh said.

Hans Hopfner (SPD) agreed.

"But we have to sit down and stay tuned," he warned.

Sabine Lorenz (CSU) praised the funding model because it also benefits popular public ice skating in winter.

For the summer, she suggested an alternative occupancy to generate income.

"We should consider how we can use the stadium for the general public."

Hans Ketelhut (CSU) left no doubt that the ESC is close to his heart and that the topic affects many young people in Geretsried.

But he also saw the Federal Association for Ice Sports as having a duty: "It's about time he helped the clubs.

It cannot be that this is only at the expense of taxpayers.”

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Source: merkur

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