With a delay of several months, the municipality of Oberschleißheim advised on its budget.
There were lively discussions in the municipal council, some are calling for radical austerity measures.
Oberschleißheim – The Oberschleißheim budget for 2023 was supposed to be discussed last December, which was then canceled at short notice.
Mayor Markus Böck (CSU) and treasurer Larissa Mäder now presented the budget to the finance committee.
"He is sewn to the edge without any leeway," said Böck.
Stefan Vohburger and the FW parliamentary group as well as Sebastian Riedelbauch (ÖDP) saw the situation a little more seriously.
They requested that the deliberations be postponed for another month.
“This budget cannot be financed in this way.
The mayor must save several million,” Vohburger demanded.
In two years, the municipality would accumulate debts of 13.5 million euros, "we have just painstakingly worked off the sum in 25 years.
We have to pay three million euros in three years just for interest and repayments.” Vohburger said the municipality could not afford this budget.
He will never be approved by the district office.
His demand: “We have to make radical savings in voluntary services, clubs and the indoor pool.
With this budget we are broke.”
We are now making up for what has been neglected for 20 years."
Böck denied the blame.
“We are now making up for what has been neglected for 20 years.
Nothing was invested there, nothing was done for more trade and trade tax, the budget remained at the same level for 20 years.” The municipality must invest now.
“We want to grow, so we have to be able to take care of our children.
We need the children’s home for that, even if it is financed through debt.”
For Peter Benthues (CSU), investing in a children's home is a decision for the future.
"It's brave to build on credit -- but other communities have a lot more debt than we do," Benthues said.
Erich Elsner (SPD) recalled that the majority of CSU and Greens rejected a new industrial park nine years ago.
"We could urgently need that now." His parliamentary colleague Irene Bogdain said the community needed childcare places, but to date there are no detailed figures on what the children's home costs.
"But we finally have to decide on the household so that we can work." Vohburger has nothing against a "normal" children's home, "but this is the luxury variant with golden faucets.
We anticipate funding of 3.5 million euros in the budget - without there being any contracts.
The payment
Mayor Böck had summarized the cornerstones of the budget: at 49.1 million euros, it is 19.6 percent larger than in the previous year, personnel expenses increase by 14 percent to 7.7 million, the district levy by 20 percent to 9.2 million.
Instead of the legally prescribed minimum allocation from the administrative budget to the asset budget, 1.2 million are taken from this, a loan of 9 million is also taken out and the reserves are reduced by 1.6 million.
"It's all very close, but it should work," said Böck.
The children's home is also included in the budget with 13.7 million, it started with 7 million.
The budget for 2023 is to be decided in two further meetings of the finance committee.
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