SPD savings proposals rejected: district office receives 150 new jobs

Created: 2022-11-24 07:12

By: Charlotte Borst

150 new jobs will be created in the district office.

© Robert Brouczek

The finance committee has rejected the savings proposals of the district SPD.

The majority supports up to 150 new jobs in the district office.

District – In the finance committee, the district councils have approved up to 150 new jobs with a large majority.

Only the SPD insisted on deletions.

"We have to make cuts," said Dietmar Gruchmann and warned: "If we look at the financial plan for the next few years," one has to worry "how many loans are planned there." Instead of 150 new jobs, "the bottom line is 40, with which we could live.” Garching's mayor and Annette Ganssmüller-Maluche (SPD) demanded detailed savings proposals from District Administrator Christoph Göbel (CSU).

He energetically rejected the SPD's deletions, as well as Gruchmann's criticism that he would not do "his homework": "Do you seriously think the word homework fits here?

Compared to the number of staff in your town hall, I'm in a better position with my district office." The sum of the most necessary positions is already on the table: "You don't even want to know the number of applications that the administration sent to me .”

"If you factor out the job center, we're on average for Bavaria."

Regarding the allegation by the SPD that personnel costs had risen more sharply than in the neighboring districts, Göbel said: "You're comparing apples with pears." The district of Munich, for example, operates its own job center as an option municipality.

Special features like these would not be taken into account by the comparative figures from the Bavarian district association.

In 2020, 7.1 million euros were booked for the job center staff.

“That is 20.33 euros per year per inhabitant.

It costs that elsewhere, too," said Ernst Weidenbusch (CSU): "If you calculate out the job center, we're on average for Bavaria." The SPD agreed to the 23 job center positions because Göbel explained: "84 percent of the costs for these positions will be replaced us by the federal government.” In particular, the SPD continued to reject those positions that had to be created for tasks of the Free State.

Christoph Nadler (Greens) referred to the effects of the increasing number of refugees: "Of the 150 new jobs, 127 are due to an increase in cases." The committee unanimously passed a request to the federal and state governments: They should make the district financially better for the completion of state tasks at district level equip.

Otto Bussjäger (Free Voters) showed understanding for the SPD's point of view: "A radical deletion is out of the question now." But in the next eleven months one must probably save temporary positions.

More news from the district of Munich can be found here.