As of: February 2, 2024, 5:39 p.m
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At the topping-out ceremony for the extension in September, it was already clear that the construction would be more expensive.
However, the error in the distribution of costs was still unnoticed.
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Error in the distribution of costs: The communities of Planegg and Neuried paid too little for the extension of the Feodor-Lynen-Gymnasium from the start.
2.7 million euros are now due retroactively.
Planegg
– The Munich district can look forward to an unexpected windfall of 2.7 million euros.
The municipalities of Planegg and Neuried have to pay.
As it turned out on Thursday, the previous distribution of the costs for the expansion of the Planegger Feodor-Lynen-Gymnasium (FLG) was incorrect.
Planegg will receive 1.7 million euros in back payments and Neuried 1 million.
In 2018, the Würmtal State High School Association decided to build an extension in the north of the FLG building, which was over 40 years old and had long since become too small.
This is scheduled to go into operation at the beginning of the next school year.
The cost calculation amounts to 11.72 million euros, but it is already clear that the three-story wooden cube with a gross floor area of 2,725 square meters will be significantly more expensive.
Christin Muhr, managing director of the association, spoke of an excess of around 30 percent at the topping-out ceremony last September.
Error noticed when looking through the numbers
The members of the special-purpose association divide the costs of the expansion among themselves: the Munich district and the communities of Planegg and Neuried and finally the community of Krailling in the Starnberg district.
The Munich district covers 100 percent of the costs of ongoing school expenses for its two communities and 70 percent of the expansion.
Now it turned out that the cost distribution between the district, Planegg and Neuried had been calculated with incorrect proportions from the start.
As Planegg's mayor Hermann Nafziger explained to the local council's main finance and culture committee on Thursday evening, manager Muhr noticed this the same day when looking through the numbers.
The decisive factor for this is that the percentage in a table created in 2020 was incorrect.
All calculations were made on this basis.
Muhr informed Nafziger, who in addition to his mayor's office is also chairman of the special purpose association, as well as Neuried's mayor Harald Zipfel and the district office by email.
When asked on Friday, they said that they would not be able to comment until next week.
Neuried wants to check
Zipfel was surprised that the topic had already come up in a Planegg committee.
“Actually, this should first be discussed in the special purpose association.” And further: “We will check it.” He initially did not want to comment on the content.
The municipality of Neuried has to make significant savings due to its tense financial situation.
All items in the 2024 budget will be examined and investments will be reduced to a minimum.
Zipfel: “A million would tear an even bigger hole in our budget.
This is fatal.”
In Planegg, the councilors learned the bad news while discussing the draft budget for 2024.
Instead of the originally targeted 80,000 euros that were supposed to be included in the budget for the share of the extension, it is now around 1.8 million.
“We assume that we will have to pay more,” said treasurer Katharina Gaspers.
Mayor Nafziger said in the Merkur interview: “We can cope with this without projects being endangered.” He was glad that the municipality had a sufficiently large buffer.
It is not yet clear how the error could have occurred.
Since Muhr, the executive director of the association, is now on vacation, the clarification will have to wait until she returns.
What is certain is that no one noticed the incorrect assumptions from 2020 until Thursday.
The share of the municipality of Krailling is unaffected.