As of: March 28, 2024, 5:00 p.m
By: Miriam Kohr
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Fahrenzhausen's budget is no longer as rosy as in previous years. © Symbolic photo: Patrick Pleul
For the first time in a long time, the community of Fahrenzhausen has to transfer money from the property budget to the administrative budget. And that's not the only bad news from treasurer Markus Eschenbecher.
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– The 2024 budget was unanimously approved at a special meeting of the Fahrenzhausen local council. Not least because the councilors had discussed, discussed and made a few adjustments in many different committee meetings since November so that a budget with a quorum could now be presented that all councilors could support.
Treasurer Markus Eschenbecher went through the expenses and income with the local councilors and explained how there was a loss of 850,000 in the asset budget. “We have a slump in business taxes. The reasons are the economic development of the last few years.” Although there is a strong increase in interest income, this is not enough to offset the deficit.
District levy “really hurts” the community
At the same time, expenses are continually increasing. When it comes to energy costs, allocations, material administrative and operating expenses as well as personnel expenses, the cost bars are getting higher and higher in Eschenbecher's graphic. The last item in particular weighs in at over 4.5 million euros. “We were able to close all the gaps in vacancies and there are wage increases,” he explains the cost increase of 1.5 million compared to the previous year. The necessary change of contract for electricity in 2023 and the current abolition of the electricity price cap also “hit the community hard”. An even greater burden is the district levy, which increased again by over 500,000 euros to 5.5 million euros compared to 2023. “It really hurts us, but we can’t get out of it. “The upper one stabs the lower,” said the chamberlain. In other words: the community's expenses are higher than its income.
Rising bar of the district levy: Treasurer Markus Eschenbecher presented the budget to Mayor Susanne Hartmann and the local council. © mik
His outlook wasn't rosy either: "We have to assume that there will be a deficit in the administrative budget in the coming years, which will have to be made up through the reserves and the sale of land." In his forecast, he stated that the reserves would be up until will be used up in 2027. This could result in the legal supervisory authority not approving any loans that may be necessary for investments. Sales of properties worth over three million euros are planned for this year.
But “we also have a lot planned” for future investments. The largest amounts are made up of the new town hall, the renovation of the sewage treatment plant and the construction of PV systems.
The key data of the Fahrenzhausen budget 2024
Administrative budget: 15.7 million euros.
Asset budget: 9.9 million euros.
Transfer from the capital budget to the administrative budget: 842,670 euros.
Income tax: 4.8 million euros.
Trade tax: 5.8 million euros.
Interest income: 160,000 euros.
Saxon. Administrative/operating expenses (including energy costs): 2.7 million euros.
District levy: 5.5 million euros.
Personnel costs: 4.7 million euros.
Reserves: 6.4 million euros.
Debt: zero euros.
Investments 2024: 8 million euros.
Despite budget concerns, the community is optimistic about the future
Andreas Karl (FWE) expressed doubts about being able to manage all of this solely through land sales and pointed out that future expenditure would have to be examined in more detail. It was important for Eschenbecher to emphasize to the public that austerity measures had of course already been decided to keep expenses lower. For example, the administration would have to save on office supplies and some vacant positions will not be filled. The conversion to LED in street lighting is also having an effect.
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Nevertheless, Mayor Susanne Hartmann was optimistic. She thanked her “great team” and the local councilors and said: “I am confident that we will be successful in the future with the budget.”
Finally, Annemarie Guttner (FWE) asked that the sale of land be better integrated with building construction work in the future and that the entire local council be informed more frequently about budgetary matters over the course of the year. “So that we don’t just have to face the facts at the end of the year, but are picked up earlier.” Eschenbecher’s answer: “We can do it.”
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