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In order to cover its expenses, the municipality of Dietramszell is planning to take out three new loans this year.
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The Dietramszell local council recently passed another record budget.
Mayor Josef Hauser was confident.
“We’ll get it done.”
Dietramszell - Mayor Josef Hauser is confident: “We can do it.” Creating a balanced budget while at the same time managing all of the municipality’s tasks is becoming an “increasingly challenging challenge” from year to year.
Dietramszell: Local council approves budget - mayor confident
At their most recent meeting, Treasurer Katharina Laß once again presented the local councilors with a record budget with a total volume of 25.5 million euros - almost three million more compared to the preliminary accounting results for 2023. The upward trend of the last ten years is continuing.
The budget in the form now adopted was preceded by two deliberations lasting several hours in the Finance Committee.
Its most important decision: The assessment rates will not be increased - even though the municipality's property and trade tax rate of 320 percent is well below the district average.
Josef Hauser Dietramszell's mayor is satisfied with the approved budget.
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Accordingly, Laß expected income to remain the same or slightly decrease.
When it comes to wage and income tax, however, it assumes that the amounts will continue to rise.
With a total of almost 8.5 million, the planned tax income exceeds that of the previous year by around 420,000 euros.
That is more than half of the revenue from the administrative budget.
However, the municipality's increased tax capacity in recent years has resulted in the Free State's key allocation falling by 108,000 to just under 750,000 euros.
The district levy that goes to the district is also calculated based on tax capacity.
In 2024 it rose by 276,000 to around 3.9 million euros, making it around a quarter of the expenditure in the administrative budget.
Other large items here are the material operating expenses of around six million and personnel costs of almost 4.8 million euros.
According to Hauser, the community employs more than 80 people, spread across around 50 full-time positions.
Around 55 percent of personnel costs arise in kindergartens.
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Budget plan for Dietramszell: Most of the expenditure in the capital budget
The lion's share of the expenditure in the capital budget - almost 6.3 of a total of 9.2 million euros - is made up of the planned construction work.
These include the ongoing school renovation, which costs 2.2 million, as well as road work, broadband expansion, disaster protection and community housing projects in Ascholding and Linden.
According to the draft budget, income should exceed expenditure in the administrative budget by 680,000 euros.
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This amount, which will be added to the capital budget, will be lower in 2024 than it has been for many years.
In the previous year the surplus was 1.9 million.
Nevertheless, the free financial margin - i.e. the amount that goes beyond the so-called minimum contribution to repay the loan - is still around 480,000 euros, as Laß emphasized.
The municipality's general reserve, which amounted to 5.2 million in 2022, will fall to 635,000 euros in 2024 due to further withdrawals - also a record low.
Dietramszell: The municipality is planning to take out three new loans this year
In order to cover the expenses, the municipality is planning to take out three new loans this year: two publicly subsidized housing loans totaling a good 670,000 euros and a loan of two million euros for the expansion of the infrastructure.
The total debt level increases from the current 824,000 euros to 3.3 million, which corresponds to a per capita debt of 575 euros.
In 2026, this will rise again to 680 euros, the treasurer predicted - but then it will fall again according to the financial plan.
Even the targeted high is still below the average per capita debt of Bavarian municipalities with a similar population of 751 euros.
“A successful piece of work,” Hauser praised the budget and financial plan, which the local councilors approved without much discussion and without any dissenting votes.
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