No more room in the daycare center: the city council creates a solution for around 20 girls and boys

The city council has reacted to an acute shortage of childcare places in Wolfratshausen.

In the short term, the ground floor of a prominent property is being prepared as a temporary day-care center.

Wolfratshausen – The starting position for the city councilors before their most recent meeting was precarious: From September, the childcare places in the integrative daycare center at Bahnhofstraße 14 will no longer be sufficient.

If nothing were done, 20 to 25 girls and boys and their parents would be affected.

But the city council managed to solve the problem with 18:5 votes – at least initially.

No more room in the daycare center: the city council creates a solution for around 20 girls and boys

If no further places are created, not all registrations can be considered and children have to be rejected: This is the sober statement of Martin Melf, head of the town hall department for education and social affairs, on the facts.

Against this background, the children and youth development association (KJVF) in Wolfratshausen, together with the municipality, had been looking for ways to create additional childcare places.

Option one: upgrading the ground floor of the small property on Bahnhofstrasse.

As reported in 2012, Antonia Klein inherited half of the building from the city and half from the Catholic Church.

During a site visit, representatives of the city, the KJFV and the specialist supervision of the district youth welfare office came to the conclusion, according to Melf,

that the ground floor of the property, which has been vacant for a good ten years, is suitable for "temporary interim use as a day-care center".

The municipal housing association (StäWo) could handle the upgrade – according to a rough estimate, the work would cost 150,000 to 200,000 euros.

City council agrees: "Alternative three is not an alternative"

Option two: The municipality buys containers that are set up in the garden of the small property.

This would also only be a temporary solution – until additional after-school care places are available in the elementary and middle school on Hammerschmiedweg, which is expected to be around 2027/2028.

The school will be completely renovated and expanded from this summer.

The containers would cost 300,000 to 400,000 euros.

Should the city not buy it but rent it, according to Mayor Klaus Heilinglechner (Bürgervereinigung Wolfratshausen/BVW), the bottom line is around 300,000 euros in rental costs,

The third option: The city does not create any additional childcare places.

In fact, it is a voluntary task - other municipalities would not shy away from this ultima ratio, says Heilinglechner.

But neither the mayor nor the city council want to leave the children and their parents out in the rain.

"Alternative three is not an alternative," stated CSU faction leader Claudia Drexl-Weile.

She pleaded for the container solution, for which all five Christian Socials voted unanimously.

According to the mayor, the city will continue to be concerned about the lack of childcare places

The remaining 18 city councilors voted for the temporary use of the small property.

"There should be life in there," said BVW parliamentary group spokesman Josef Praller.

"It's good for the house," agreed Fritz Buckler (SPD) and Green Party spokesman Peter Lobenstein.

"Containers don't make the place any more attractive," said Dr.

Manfred Fleischer (Wolfratshauser list).

However, he attached importance to the fact that "only what needs to be done is done" when upgrading the ground floor of the property with a view of the city coffers.

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Ulrike Krischke (BVW), who, as reported, developed a usage concept for the listed property together with the city's senior citizens' advisory board, can, in her own words, live with a daycare center in the small property for "four, five years".

Krischke: "I see no problem there."

However, City Hall boss Heilinglechner assumes that the lack of childcare places will continue to concern the municipality: "It will never end."

Almost 120 apartments have been built here.

This means that families with children are expected to move to the rafting town.

(cce)

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