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The city only provides a symbolic grant for the renovation of the Holy Cross Chapel.
City priest horrified © Hans-Helmut Herold
A decision by the city council on Tuesday caused a lot of head shaking among the audience: the committee adapted the funding guidelines adopted in 2015.
Churches and former municipal facilities are no longer included.
The grant amounts will also be capped in the future.
Schongau - The previous funding guidelines had already caused discussions in the Schongau city council on many occasions, most recently in December.
The reason at that time was an application for a grant from the parish community in the amount of 46,000 euros for the renovation of the Heilig Kreuz chapel at Maxtor.
At a previous meeting, the city councilors had already had a controversial debate about funding for the new bells of the Assumption - but found a compromise.
Parties, churches and municipal institutions are no longer covered by the directive
City Treasurer Kurt Konrad now briefly summarized the most important points of the new funding guidelines: Upon request, the city supports clubs that are based in the city and promote sporting, cultural or social issues.
Parties and clubs that pursue political goals, however, should be excluded, as should municipal or club-owned facilities that serve school sports.
The former municipal facilities such as the music school or the library are excluded from the previous guidelines, as are religious communities and churches.
In the future, applicants will have to keep an eye on the deadline of November 30th for the following year.
“This is important so that you already know the amounts for the budget preparation,” says Konrad.
Applications received later cannot usually be considered.
There is also no legal claim; decisions are made based on the available budget resources.
Funding is capped
The funding is also capped: a maximum of 20 percent of the eligible costs are recognized over a period of five years, a maximum of 15,000 euros for investment projects and 10,000 euros for other measures.
The club must make its own contribution.
For regular subsidies such as rent, applications must be submitted every three years.
“This is going in exactly the right direction,” summarized Markus Keller (Greens).
However, he advocated not necessarily limiting the club's headquarters to Schongau.
“There are fewer and fewer volunteers, we should not see the city limits so narrowly and think more interculturally in the future.”
There were no further comments on this.
“We have discussed this intensively in advance, so we no longer have to discuss it at length,” said Mayor Falk Sluyterman.
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The city council unanimously approved the new directive
The city council unanimously approved the funding guidelines and then immediately applied them to the following agenda items.
This means that the postponed application for the Holy Cross Chapel has now been dropped.
Even if the church is an “element that defines the townscape”: “The financial situation of the city of Schongau is currently very tense, and times are not getting better,” said the town hall boss in the direction of the city pastor Norbert Marxer, who led the discussion together with one Dozens of spectators watched.
Stefan Konrad (SPD) called for the old rules to be followed in this case, as the application had already been received at the end of November.
“Anyone who owns a building is responsible for its maintenance,” argued Keller.
Kornelia Funke (CSU) submitted a proposal for a compromise of 20,000 euros, but she did not have the budget savings proposal requested by Sluyterman.
The mayor also pointed out that they also have a church - St. Anna - that urgently needs to be renovated.
Stephan Hild suggested the symbolic amount of 1,500 euros for the renovation of the chapel
Stephan Hild (UWV), who submitted the application to revise the directive in December, was, like Keller, of the opinion that no money should be paid for structural maintenance.
He proposed a symbolic amount of 1,500 euros, which was approved with four votes.
The grant application for the entire sum of 46,000 euros had previously been unanimously rejected, and Funke's application was also rejected by a majority (against five yes votes).
City priest Norbert Marxer is horrified
“I'm speechless,” said Pastor Marxer after the meeting.
“The Holy Cross Chapel is part of the cityscape,” comments former district administrator Helmut Schmidbauer.
He further criticizes that a city should not only award funding with a view to its own budget: “Public funding is not a private handout that you give when you have enough, but a legitimate interest of the general public.”
It was only recently announced that parish priest Norbert Marxer would be leaving Schongau