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The Darmstadt regional council has approved the Offenbach budget for 2021. However, the reserves will be used up in 2022 and 2023.
A strict consolidation course, a lower increase in social spending and increased subsidies from the federal and state governments. For the Offenbach treasurer Peter Freier (CDU), these are the main reasons that the city was able to set up a balanced budget for 2021, which has now been approved by the Darmstadt Regional Council.
“We are even generating single-digit surpluses that are urgently needed as a reserve for the coming fiscal years up to 2024,” said Freier. That is 5.7 million euros for the year 2021. The income of around 546.6 million euros is offset by expenses of around 540.9 million euros. However, the RP also sees that the budget for 2022 and 2023 will only be possible through the reserves formed from the surpluses of previous years.
That is 24.1 million euros. “Countermeasures in the context of budget implementation and the presentation of budget balancing are therefore urgently required from the budget year 2024 at the latest,” says the FP. A budget gap of 14.7 million euros is expected there. The question arises why the previous Tanzania coalition of CDU, Greens, FDP and Free Voters lowered the property tax from 995 to 885 points a few months ago if such a budget gap was foreseeable. After all, the 100 points correspond to around 4.5 million euros.
The RP sees the development of the deficit in local public transport as a particular risk, “which the city budget in the previous planning should cover with a maximum of five million euros in 2024”, the city announced. It is now assuming a significantly higher minus for the transport companies – 10.8 million euros for 2023 and 10.2 million euros for 2024.
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