As of: March 17, 2024, 9:00 a.m
By: Nico Bauer
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This makeshift padel court was the first in the district.
Now TSV Allershausen is building a permanent facility and wants subsidies from the community.
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TSV Allershausen wants to score points in the community with the trend sport of padel tennis.
But there is considerable resistance in the local council, which could bring down its own funding guidelines.
Allershausen
– Padel tennis is a trend sport related to classic tennis, with which TSV Allershausen expects significant growth potential.
With the application for funding in accordance with the municipal sports funding guidelines, the facility is now becoming a political issue.
The debate in the local council was heated, so the decision on a significant subsidy was postponed for the time being.
Sports club adheres to the guidelines
The municipality of Allershausen has actually clearly regulated such investments by local clubs.
If an application is submitted, the regulations provide for a 20 percent subsidy to be granted.
In most cases this amounts to four-digit payments.
The padel tennis facility financed by the TSV through private lenders costs over 200,000 euros, so the funding here would amount to a good 45,000 euros according to the guidelines.
Local councilor Leonhard Held (CSU) took massive shots against the sports club and refused his consent.
He pointed out that the TSV had written in the application for the construction of the facility that they would finance the facility themselves.
For Held, the matter is clear: “Anyone who writes this passage into the application exempts the community from the funding guidelines.” In view of the grant application that has now been submitted, the CSU local council rumbled that it was “malicious deception” and “disrespectful”.
His conclusion: “I won’t let myself be fooled.” Held received support from the third mayor Siegfried Lerchl (SPD): “It was clear to me that the TSV has an investor from Munich – and we have no costs.”
Padel tennis fan: TSV chairman Dennis Henning sees great growth potential for the sports club.
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Mayor Martin Vaas (PFW) replied to Held that the sports funding guidelines would then have to be questioned.
If a club submits an application, the money will be paid according to the rules and put into the budget.
Vaas warned against blowing up the big picture because of the padel facility: “If we don’t grant the subsidy, the sports funding guidelines will be obsolete.
And everything is regulated there, including youth support.” 2. Mayor Manuel Mück (CSU) warned that with the abolition of the guidelines, every single application would have to be discussed and voted on in the local council in the future.
Lerchl brings the fire department into play against TSV
Finding a compromise was difficult due to the amount of funding.
Lerchl made it clear that he had a problem paying the subsidy for padel tennis and having to inform the local fire departments that the purchase of new vehicles had to be postponed due to budget problems.
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Ultimately, the motion was not voted on.
Mayor Martin Vaas instead promised an administrative proposal that would save the sports funding guidelines for the future.
You could include a clause there that states that for grants above a certain amount (20,000 or 30,000 euros), the local council must decide individually on the respective application.
The money for padel tennis funding is initially recorded in the 2024 budget - and if the subsidy is rejected, according to Mayor Vaas, the expenditure item would not be implemented.
There will still be a heated discussion in the local council about the political issue of padel tennis.
The decision showdown on the TSV application has merely been postponed.