Fahrenzhausen household gets a "keep it up" - but the future doesn't look so rosy anymore
Created: 12/27/2022, 12:00 p.m
The municipality's "purse" is well filled - for now.
Symbolic picture: dpa © Monika Skolimowska
The budget debate was short and sweet.
The Fahrenzhausen municipal council has approved the budget for 2023 of 22 million euros presented by treasurer Markus Eschenbecher.
Fahrenzhausen
– Compared to other municipalities, one can consider oneself lucky in Fahrenzhausen.
Borrowing is not necessary again.
The municipality remains debt-free.
The question is, however: for how much longer?
Because the crises with their unavoidable cost increases do not stop at the Ampertal community.
And a lot has been planned for 2023.
Road construction is the biggest chunk in the budget for 2023
First and foremost is the new town hall building, which is expected to cost a good five million euros.
Currently, more than half a million euros have been estimated for the planning costs alone.
By far the largest chunk in the 2023 budget is road construction, for which 1.7 million euros have been set aside, followed by investments in day care centers and playgrounds with almost 1.3 million euros.
A good one million euros are earmarked for upgrading the sewage treatment plant.
In total, the investments in 2023 will amount to an impressive 7.4 million euros.
A sum that is largely at the expense of the reserves.
Fahrenzhausen currently has twelve million on the high edge.
A cushion that will shrink by half by the end of next year.
What is still missing is to be financed from income and grants.
A plan that could work, because the tax power of the municipality is unbroken.
Income tax is set at 4.5 million euros - the highest value since 2019. Trade tax is assumed to be 5.7 million euros, at least 1.1 million euros more than in the previous year.
Only in 2021 was it even higher at 6.3 million euros.
Borrowing can soon no longer be ruled out
According to Treasurer Markus Eschenbecher, however, it can be assumed that “reserves will be completely used up” in the next few years.
Borrowing can no longer be ruled out in the future.
There are already signs of this: the transfer from the administrative budget to the property budget is only marginal at a good 28,000 euros.
In 2022 it was just over 400,000 euros, in 2021 even 3.7 million euros.
Normally, the allocation should form the basis for investments.
To make matters worse, the district levy has risen by EUR 900,000 to EUR 4.8 million due to the high tax capacity.
(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)
Nevertheless, the municipal council had no doubts about the solidity of the budget – quite the opposite.
The chairman of the audit committee, Astrid Wildgruber-Bolesczuk (CSU), was full of praise.
One could agree to the budget "with a clear conscience," she explained.
Wildgruber-Bolesczuk attributed the fact that everything was no longer just plain sunshine to the general economic development.
Priority list is still desired
She was pleased to be able to hold the budget in her hands now and not until the middle of next year, as has often happened in the past.
This makes it possible to go “to the max” as far as investments are concerned.
"Keep it up!" confirmed Wildgruber-Belosczuk.
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At the same time, she expressed the hope of being able to fix one or the other point at the exam in January.
She was alluding to a list of priorities that various parties have been calling for for a long time.
Among other things, Annemarie Guttner (FWE) had repeatedly campaigned for this.
In the end, Mayor Susanne Hartmann was also satisfied with the 2023 budget.
She spoke of "constructive cooperation" in the committees and within the administration.
"I am pleased that we can get off to a flying start in 2023."
The household key data
administrative budget: 14.3 million euros;
wealth budget: 7.4 million;
Total budget: 21.8 million;
Income tax: 4.5 million;
trade tax: 5.7 million;
District levy: 4.8 million;
personnel costs 4.3 million;
withdrawal from reserves: 6 million;
Reserves as at 31.12.
2023: 6 million;
Debts as of 12/31/23: 0 euros;
New borrowing: 0 euros;
Investments: EUR 7.4 million.
Alexander Fisher
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