Energy crisis: State helps municipalities with additional millions
Created: 11/21/2022, 9:05 p.m
Manuela Schwesig (SPD), Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, speaks at a press conference.
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The state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is helping the local authorities to overcome the energy crisis with a three-digit million amount.
On the one hand, this involves additional aid and, on the other hand, the advancement of services that have to be paid anyway, as Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) made clear after a five-hour municipal summit on Monday evening in Schwerin.
Schwerin - The municipalities themselves should bring in 50 million euros from their additional tax revenue.
In total, the cities, communities and districts should have 185 million euros more available in the coming year than previously planned.
Among other things, the infrastructure flat rate for investments, for example in roads and schools, is to increase from 100 to 150 million euros in the coming year.
An additional ten million euros are to be made available over the next three years for special needs allocations to cash-strapped municipalities so that they too can invest.
There should be an extra five million euros for civil protection.
The reimbursement of the higher costs in the housing benefit offices as a result of the planned major housing benefit reform by the federal government should be brought forward in order to relieve the cities and communities.
There should be ten million euros to pay higher energy costs for schools of all sponsorship, five million euros for the daycare centers.
The chairman of the town and community council, Wismar's mayor Thomas Beyer (SPD), praised the result of the summit, as did the chairman of the district council, Ludwigslust-Parchim's district administrator Stefan Sternberg (SPD).
For the additional expenditure of the state, a supplementary budget with an energy fund of a good 1.1 billion euros is to be launched in the state parliament on Thursday.
Of this, 600 million euros are to come from the federal aid packages and the rest from the state.
dpa
