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The smallest community in the Ries takes out new loans. This is also necessary because a road is being expanded
FromPeter Urban
Since 2008 the parish Forheim Debt-free, terms such as borrowing or repayment have been foreign words for the small community in recent years. This was said by the treasurer of the Ries administrative community, Moritz Gerstner, who explained the budget for the year 2021 to the Forheim council. This year, for the first time in 13 years, new loans are planned.
The senior administrative officer first explained to the council in a routine and comprehensive manner the meaning and systematics of administrative and asset budgets of a municipality, and then went into the details. The administrative budget comprises a total of 44 pages, the most important items of which were then explained and discussed. The budget in the administrative budget 2021 closes in income and expenditure with 938,223 euros, the asset budget with 1,703,000 euros.
This difference requires the necessary borrowing for investments and investment promotion measures to be added to the budget in the amount of 676,475 euros. This measure makes the so-called “total coverage principle” necessary and does not necessarily mean that the loan actually has to be taken out – especially not in full.
The extensive investment planning in Forheim for 2021, however, makes this approach necessary: The planned expansion of Bollstädter Strasse with street lighting alone is estimated at EUR 478,000, and EUR 255,000 for the sewer rehabilitation measures. In addition, the development of the planned “Southeast” building area including sewerage costs 415,000 euros, and the next larger item in the budget falls under the item “General land purchase” with 340,000 euros.
These investments are of course also offset by future income, so government subsidies of over 200,000 euros can be offset and the future sale of land in the new building area will also significantly reduce the loan requirement. Mayor Andreas Bruckmeier said: “The planned (construction) measures are an investment in the future of the community, triggered by the subsidies that are currently available and that we simply have to use.” And only because the community is on the money market with interest of about 0.4 percent at most, it is possible to make these investments now.
Bruckmeier made a comparison: In 2008, the last year of Forheim’s debt, the municipality had to pay the same interest for 81,000 euros back then as it is today for a whopping 680,000 euros. Not least because of the plausible justification and explanation of the state of affairs, the budget planning and budget charter of the municipality for 2021 was unanimously adopted after the discussion.
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