As of: March 26, 2024, 6:28 a.m
By: Thomas Zimmerly
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“Don’t cut corners”: District Administrator Stefan Löwl (left) and Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter at the topping-out ceremony for the Karlsfeld high school.
1,350 students from the Dachau district and the state capital are expected to attend the new school from 2025.
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The Dachau district council and its committees are putting the red pencil in this year's budget.
But the CSU wants to save even more.
Dachau – It won't be long before people will feel that money is missing everywhere in the Dachau district.
If you see fewer security personnel at Lake Karlsfelder.
Or can no longer take part in city cycling.
Students will find fewer hygiene products, paper for copying and no covered bicycle parking spaces in their school.
Active clubs like “Zamgricht”, which organizes music and dance events that are well received by the audience, will have to hold their planned traditional costume festival without subsidies.
There are dozens of savings measures that the district council and its committees decided on at the most recent meeting (we reported).
To list them all would be beyond the scope of this article.
Overall, the savings are enormous
Sometimes it is projects, programs and events for little money that have to suffer.
Overall, however, the savings are enormous.
But there could soon be even more cuts.
Michael Reindl (Free Voters District) has been a district councilor for almost 40 years.
He said: “I have never experienced such a difficult budget and financial situation!” His colleagues from the CSU developed an additional motion to go beyond the urgent motion that the Christian Socials submitted together with the Free Voters of the District, the Greens and the SPD at the end of January and in which the quartet of parties demanded ten percent savings compared to the draft budget for 2024 and made it known that they were prepared to make “massive cuts”.
Now the CSU even went one step further.
Their additional request can be explained “exclusively by the precarious financial situation and the overall municipal finances that are out of control,” said Dieter Kugler, who sacrificed himself to be the bearer of the bad news.
It is difficult for him and his party friends, but “unfortunately the current savings proposals have not yet reached their specified target for a district levy of a maximum of 49.99 points,” said the mayor of Röhrmoos.
The administration should take another look at where money could be diverted.
“That is legitimate if you look at the situation of the municipalities,” said Kugler, certain that the 17 district municipalities will be heavily burdened by the district levy.
Resolutions on hundreds of pages
The district administration still has to think about the additional application.
When it comes to urgent applications, “the last few weeks of work were very labor-intensive,” says District Administrator Stefan Löwl.
The result was a lot of suggestions as to where the district could cut money.
The relevant draft resolutions totaled hundreds of pages.
It was ultimately the responsibility of the district councilors to determine in a mammoth six-hour meeting which items would turn the subjunctive into an imperative.
And in the end that was the case for many points.
The councils penetrated every individual household.
A lot was saved on culture.
But the circle is also narrowing when it comes to climate protection, a central issue today.
In addition to city cycling, educational offerings such as the energy-saving village are falling victim to the red pen.
These are voluntary services provided by the district, which makes things easier.
But the belt is also being tightened in subject areas that are mandatory, such as secondary schools or district roads.
A petite, but comforting: The district fire inspector's training dinner will (probably) not be disturbed.
“There’s a lot of heart and soul in it,” said District Fire Commissioner Georg Reischl.
Canceling the roast pork and the two friends would also be a very bad symbol.
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The decision-makers went into detail
The decision-makers went into detail.
And again and again it was representatives of the Greens who followed up.
That's her job.
Arthur Stein got to the point.
Because of the “solidarity principle”, all areas should be examined equally.
His party colleague Carsten Schleh warned that “we are ruining existing schools and schools that are currently being built right from the start.”
He suggested “considering a small increase in the district levy instead of cutting corners to 49.99 percent at the expense of schools, children and teachers.”
After the cuts that have now been decided, “we are now at 51 points,” said district treasurer Michael Mair.
The administration's new proposals, which are necessary due to the CSU application, are to be presented at a meeting on April 19th.
“Hopefully with a recommendation for a resolution to the district council,” said the district administrator.
The 2024 budget is scheduled to be finally approved on April 30th.
You can read more news from the Dachau region here.