The new construction of the Freising vocational school has long been planned, but suddenly the district council was discussing renovation again.
A fight vote ended the debate.
Freising
– After around 45 minutes of discussion and nine outstanding requests to speak on the subject of vocational school renovation or new construction, the need to speak and the drifting into partisan political statements for Josef Dollinger (FW) then got too out of hand.
Using a show of hands, he introduced a motion for the rules of procedure, a rather unusual and very seldom used means of so-called battle votes in the district council in order to prevent further pending discussions.
The origin of the long debate in the district council: Stegmair had requested in the most recent district committee meeting to examine the renovation of the vocational school because the costs for a new building could currently be around 160 million euros.
He asked the same question again: "Do you really have to demolish a 35-year-old building?" However, Sailer had done the math: "The school opened in 1972, that's 50 years now and not 35."
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Johann Stegmair (CSU) asked whether it was really necessary to demolish the building.
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What apparently no one had on the screen before: "The renovation effort has long been checked," explained Martin Pschorr (SPD), who referred to an old report, also in terms of needs.
His opinion on Stegmair's suggestion: "That's backwards."
Why do we need remediation studies now?”
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For Bönig it has been absolutely clear for at least 15 years that the vocational school cannot continue in this way.
Stegmair also received objection from party colleague Martin Reiter (CSU), who criticized that the topic had been discussed for 20 years.
“The school has reached its limits.
The youngsters have to be trained in Freising and not somewhere else.”
Benno Zierer finds clear and loud words
Benno Zierer (FW) couldn't and didn't want to hold back, who found clear and quite loud words: "That's a pure slap in the face for the craft, especially because people are constantly whining that we need craftsmen." His guess: "If If it were about a new grammar school, everyone here would raise their hands right away.”
Rainer Schneider (FW), on the other hand, was surprised "that the mayors present didn't say anything at all," because the communities would ultimately have to dig deep into their pockets via the district levy for the vocational school.
What Schneider warned: "This is the largest expenditure after the hospital that the district has ever made."
District Administrator Helmut Petz was then confused about his own assumption that a parallel renovation test would not lead to any delays in the ongoing planning of the new building.
"A time delay can definitely be assumed," explained Florian Plajer from the building construction office -- an assessment that he had already made in the district committee.
Petz, who was basically positive about a renovation test, was surprised: "That made me prick up my ears - I'll do some more research."
Refurbishment could exceed 100 million mark
What Plajer could now roughly estimate: A renovation could well cost around 100 million euros, if not even more.
Samuel Fosso (FSM) then saw the need for a reorganization test all the less.
What also bothered him: "We complain about staff shortages in the district office, but we decide on further tasks, which irritates me a lot." In addition, a data center should be housed in the vocational school, which simply would not be possible in a renovated house.
A loud groan went through the ranks as Petz counted the outstanding requests to speak – at least nine, and counting.
Dollinger's motion for the rules of procedure was largely accepted with thanks, only 17 councilors wanted to continue the discussion.
The vote on whether a reorganization should now be examined or not was also quite clear: 36 spoke out against it, 27 in favor.
The district administrator had actually gone back to himself: he too now voted against a renovation test.
Richard Lorenz
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