As of: February 27, 2024, 4:06 p.m
By: Dieter Roettig
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The “morbid charm” of the crumbling Huber houses consumes quite a bit of maintenance costs.
The local council will soon have to deal with their future.
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Dießen - The Finance Committee's recommendation to the local council to approve the 2024 budget was unanimous.
Nevertheless, there were two votes against in the final approval, but without explanation: Deputy Mayor Roland scratch (CSU) and Michael Lutzeier (The Party) voted against.
This was preceded by a strong financial effort, which ultimately led to a balanced budget.
According to the plan, the administrative budget includes income and expenses at 28,815,500 euros, the asset budget at 5,396,900 euros.
The “last minute” decision to increase the district levy by one point to 53 percent means an additional expenditure of 166,000 euros for Dießen, which automatically means a reduction in the planned transfer from the administrative to the property budget to just 299,500 euros.
The provisional allocation capacity is 14.7 million euros and is 11.4 percent above the previous year's figure.
The result is high borrowings in the financial planning years up to 2027, which will total up to 26.24 million euros, with the loan interest putting an additional burden on the administrative budget.
According to Mayor Sandra Perzul, attention must be focused on future investments that cannot be financed as things currently stand.
In order to balance the asset budget, only two million euros in new borrowings and an additional half million withdrawal from the general reserve will be necessary in 2024 in order to be able to finance the estimated investments.
In addition, there are 4.9 million euros in borrowings to finance the remaining budget expenditure for construction work that has already been formed in 2022 and 2023.
These currently amount to a total of seven million euros and another almost three million euros for land acquisition.
At the end of 2023, the draft budget was not yet balanced, and the administrative budget closed with a six-figure negative amount.
This meant that the legally required minimum addition to the capital budget could not be achieved.
The local council therefore decided to reduce personnel costs across the board by 200,000 euros and to increase property taxes and second home taxes, which means additional income of around 300,000 euros.
The trade tax revenue was increased by a flat rate of 200,000 euros.
In addition, the finance committee had decided on a flat-rate reduction of all building maintenance expenditure by forty percent, without, however, eliminating individual measures.