As of: March 9, 2024, 6:48 a.m
By: Peter Schiebel
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There was a lot of information, 27 exhibition stands and discussions at the Seniors' Day in June 2023 in the Schlossberghalle.
The main and finance committee has now abolished the municipal subsidy in its previous form.
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After the Starnberg City Council's major savings rounds, the Main and Finance Committee began concrete discussions for the 2024 budget on Thursday.
It also became clear that there is still a lot of fighting for positions.
Starnberg
– The 4,000 euro grant for the Starnberg Seniors’ Day: canceled.
The 15,000 euro grant to the Starnberg City Initiative: initially capped at 10,000 euros.
At the beginning of its meeting on Thursday evening, Starnberg's main and finance committee initially continued where the city council had left off the weeks before: with the consolidation of the city's finances.
“It’s about what message we send,” said Mayor Patrick Janik and spoke out against “business as usual”.
This is also important for the senior citizens’ advisory board.
This gives them clarity and can start looking for alternative financing options for Seniors Day 2025.
But Janik also emphasized: “If in the end there is still a sum missing, we are of course ready to talk.” The decision was unanimous to no longer grant the subsidy for the senior citizen’s day in its current form.
With a vote of 8:3, the committee accepted a proposal from Ludwig Jägerhuber (CSU) to continue to donate one euro from the city treasury to the City Initiative for every euro of membership fee - anything over 10,000 euros should be marked with a blocking notice.
The approval by the committee is linked to a concept from the City Initiative.
Janik had previously stated that he wanted to reduce the city's subsidy - "but not this year," he said, referring to the dynamics that have arisen since the election of the new board.
According to head of office Sarah Döringer, the city initiative is planning, among other things, two shopping Sundays this year and, for the first time, an Italian week (we reported).
“If we are consistent, we should only pay 60 cents per euro membership fee,” said Janik, referring to the cultural subsidies, which the city council cut to 60 percent two and a half weeks ago.
The committee didn't want to go that far on Thursday.
“We urgently need location support,” explained Thomas Beigel (CSU).
This cannot be compared with the cultural sector.
Michael Mignoli (BLS) also saw a lot of catching up to do.
“The City Initiative has around 60 members, which is quite a few for Starnberg,” he said.
Tim Weidner (SPD), on the other hand, would have preferred to reduce the subsidy to 75 cents per euro as a first step and, in return, to provide more funding for the Five Lakes Film Festival (FSFF).
“We went overboard with the cuts.
The film festival has our strongest external impact,” said Weidner.
Does the “Amtsboazn” need to be rebuilt?
Afterwards, things became concrete for the first time regarding the budget for 2024.
According to the decisions of the past few weeks, this initially had a positive balance of 1.1 million euros in the administrative budget (ongoing costs), of which 410,000 euros were freely available - for ten million euros that were set aside for investments in the draft capital budget , as manager Ludwig Beck explained on behalf of the chamberlain Thomas Deller, who was ill.
The city councilors now began to go through the series of numbers little by little.
CSU parliamentary group leader Beigel had a general problem.
He doubted that the administration would be able to actually implement everything with its human resources.
“We should push and cut what we can,” he said and picked out 50,000 euros for the renovation of the “Amtsboazn”, a lounge in the town hall.
Eva Pfister (BMS) also expressed criticism on this point.
She missed a template for the building committee.
“With 80 employees in the building, the administration should also create suitable social spaces,” said Patrick Janik.
The committee didn't get very far on Thursday.
The consultation will continue next Monday, March 11th, from 6 p.m. in the small hall of the Schlossberghalle.
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However, the staffing plan was approved - including a new position in the daycare center in anticipation of the obligation to provide all-day care for primary school children in 2026.
Personnel for this are very difficult to find and there is a suitable candidate that the city does not want to lose, Ludwig Beck explained in response to a question from Winfried Wobbe (UWG) why the position should be created now.
In the end there was a slim majority in favor of 6:5.
The CSU city councilors Jägerhuber and Beigel have already announced that they also want to save on staff in the future.
“It’s not enough to increase taxes and fees and then go back to business as usual,” said Jägerhuber.
The structures in the town hall would have to be carefully checked and optimized.
It's more about reducing personnel in the future than creating new jobs, said Beigel.