As of: March 2, 2024, 3:00 p.m
By: Bernhard Jepsen
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This is what the usage distribution of the Peißenberg ice rink looks like according to TSV statistics.
Source: © tsv Peisenberg/jep
Reduce costs and increase revenue: This was the goal with which the “Finance” working group of the Peißenberg Market Council started a few months ago.
However, a reduction in ice rink subsidies did not play a role in the considerations.
Peißenberg – The dog tax was tweaked a bit, the usage fees for the deep tunnel hall were increased and the admission prices for the mining museum were adjusted upwards: so far these are essentially the rather manageable results of the municipal “Finance” working group.
It was installed by the market council to develop proposals to improve the municipal budget situation.
The ongoing problem: Peißenberg has extremely low tax power.
Without state key allocations through local financial equalization, nothing would work.
One area of action for the working group would have been voluntary services, for example.
But local politicians are obviously finding it difficult to make cuts in this area.
There are sometimes strong lobby groups behind the subsidy recipients - and you don't want to mess with them.
The best example is the ice stadium operated by TSV Peißenberg.
There is no real plan as to how the ice stadium can be maintained in the long term and managed in a financially and organizationally viable manner.
The TSV survives from season to season with a lot of volunteer commitment.
Nobody knows how long this will last.
The municipality still pays a subsidy of between 80,000 and 90,000 euros to the TSV for ice rink operations - year after year.
Only part of the market council questions this.
Otherwise, the ice rink is sacrosanct for many council members.
On the occasion of the approval resolutions for the municipal annual accounts for 2022, Georg Hutter reported at the most recent market council meeting on the work in the audit committee, whose personnel is almost identical to that of the working group.
The committee chairman also announced the results of the discussions on the “ice stadium” case.
The ice rink was a “big topic” in the committee, explained Hutter.
The TSV executive committee also appeared in the committee, which did not meet publicly, to provide figures and to explain the structural interaction between the main TSV club (it is the owner of the ice rink) and the ice hockey division (the “Miners” are just one user of the ice rink). .
In 2022, the TSV main club received 57,500 euros in pure cash benefits from the municipality as part of the ice stadium subsidy.
Without subsidies there would be no ice rink
The amount is broken down into a lump sum payment that has been granted for many years (40,000 euros), a subsidy for the leasing installments for the ice reprocessing machine (7,500 euros) and a payment into a blocked account for ongoing repairs (10,000 euros).
But this is not the end of the line yet.
Around 27,000 euros must also be added for the personnel costs of an ice cream master borne by the municipality.
This means you end up with a whopping 84,500 euros.
Nevertheless, in the working group's opinion, no cuts should be made to the level of subsidies - "if the municipal budget allows it," as Hutter put it into perspective.
The reason for the reluctance to make savings: According to Hutter, the TSV club management had clearly signaled that the ice rink could not be operated without municipal subsidies.
In this context, it was “important” for the working group to clarify that the subsidy was intended solely to support the sports facility - and not to support a club.
This probably meant less the main TSV club, but rather the “Miners” with their commercially oriented first team.
The “Miners” currently pay an annual amount of around 16,000 euros to the main club in return for the advertising rights in the stadium.
But that should change soon: Hutter avoided talking about “conditions” for municipal subsidies in the market council.
However, he used the term “recommendations” and emphasized that the working group had suggested to the TSV executive board to increase the sector fee and thus the participation of the “Miners” in financing the ice stadium.
“The TSV is given this as a task,” explained Hutter – without giving any figures.
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“Noticeable adjustment” in the sectoral fee
When asked by the local newspaper, TSV President Stefan Rießenberger was also unable to find out how much deeper the miners should dig into their pockets in the future.
“As soon as the ice hockey season is over,” announced the TSV boss, “we will sit down with the division and talk about the increase.” But there will be a “noticeable adjustment”.
But that actually has to exist for another reason: As is well known, the TSV is aiming to build a new, modular replacement building for the dilapidated stadium cabins (we reported).
In order to finance the project, including various subsidies (BLSV and the municipality), the TSV main club is dependent on additional income from the separately managed “Ice Stadium” cost calculator.
As Rießenberger explained at the most recent club council meeting, the TSV could provide recurring debt service of a maximum of 1,800 euros on its own.
However, you don't want to max out the amount, but rather keep it at a level of around 1,100 euros.
According to the TSV president, the difference to the fictitious 1,800 euros will then flow into a reserve account in the future.
After the hall roof was built around 35 years ago, an account (today's blocked account) was set up into which annual depreciation should flow.
But a reserve cushion was never created.
Only ongoing repairs have been paid for from the account – until today.
In the future, the pot of money, also known as the “Zamboni account,” will run through the community.
“This means that we as TSV can no longer withdraw money ourselves, but we need the approval of the community every time,” explains Rießenberger.
Incidentally, the creation of reserves is also a requirement of the audit committee or the working group - as is the preparation of a maintenance plan.
In addition, the TSV should think about how it intends to pay the outstanding payment of the final leasing installment for the ice reprocessing machine.
According to the committee's recommendations, the “heating network with the Rigi-Rutsch'n” project, which has been discussed for ages but has never been implemented to date, should now be tackled seriously, according to the committee's recommendations.