As of: January 19, 2024, 1:00 p.m
By: Veronika Ahn-Tauchnitz
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Important positions were filled in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district office.
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The personnel carousel is turning in the district office.
This became clear at the meeting of the district social committee on Tuesday.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen – Fabian Wilhelm has been the new managing director of the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen job center since December 1st.
The 40-year-old studied political science and was most recently deputy head of the Rosenheim employment agency.
He briefly introduced himself at the meeting before the job center's 2024 budget was discussed.
Wilhelm's predecessor Andreas Baumann, who was head of the job center for 18 years, then immediately took over the next item on the agenda, when it came to the budget of the asylum department, of which Baumann is now head.
His predecessor Karsten Ludwig is now head of the traffic affairs department after Georg Fischhaber - an institution at the district office - retired at the end of the year.
Fabian Wilhelm is managing director of the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen job center.
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Pleasing development in the job center area
There was “a pleasing development” in the job center area, reported Third District Administrator Klaus Koch (Greens), who chaired the meeting.
Contrary to the budget contribution in December, the subsidy requirement in this area falls by 350,000 euros.
The reason for this is that the Free State contributes the amount to the accommodation costs for the Ukraine refugees that the federal government does not cover anyway.
This means there is less left to the district.
Karsten Ludwig is now head of the traffic affairs department.
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A third of the Ukraine refugees are given wages and bread and butter
There is little movement in the number of cases in the job center itself.
At the beginning of 2023, 1,692 cases were handled, and at the end of the year there were 1,723, as controller Hans Gey explained.
The curve only made a strong upward swing in mid-2022, when the change of legal jurisdiction for the Ukraine refugees was completed.
From this point on, they no longer received money under the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act, but fell under Hartz IV and therefore under the responsibility of the job center.
Around 500 additional communities of need were added.
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Jakob Koch (Greens) saw the fact that the numbers have fallen again since then as a sign that some Ukraine refugees have been brought in to earn a living.
But Wilhelm dampened his joy a little.
There are also people who move away or go back to their homeland.
Others would come to the district.
“It is not a homogeneous mass.” Realistically, one could say that around a third of the Ukraine refugees have been put into work.
Overall, the job center assumes a subsidy requirement of 3.5 million euros this year - excluding personnel costs.
The committee unanimously recommended that the district council decide this.
Asylum: The big chunks are booked directly into the state budget
The budget for the asylum department is very manageable.
The plan is for 73,300 euros – that too without personnel costs.
The largest chunks in this area are also recorded directly in the state budget.
Baumann nevertheless briefly addressed it.
Almost 1,900 asylum seekers are looked after.
This too “isn’t a solid block, everything is in motion”.
Andreas Baumann now heads the asylum department.
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The people are accommodated in 200 accommodations – “from small apartments to large gymnasiums,” said Baumann.
“We are practically the largest hotel in the district.” That costs 3.2 million euros in rent per year.
In addition, there are eight million euros for the security service and the monthly payments to the asylum seekers.
Currently that's around 460 euros for single people.
New positions planned in the asylum area
None of this remains with the district because these amounts are immediately recorded in the state budget.
The district only pays for the security service that is on site at the district office during the cash payment that takes place once a month, the migration advice from the “Help from Person to Person” association or maintenance work in the accommodation.
In addition, there are personnel costs amounting to around 1.6 million euros, of which only just under 290,000 euros are incurred by the district.
Edmund Häner (committee community) asked what would happen next in terms of personnel.
The staffing plan is a matter for the district committee, but it wants to know “what to expect.”
Eight additional positions have actually been applied for - two for administrative work and six for property management, said Baumann.
“However, it is incredibly difficult to find people.”
This budget was also passed unanimously.