On Tuesday, the city council approved the settlement between the municipal utilities and Mayor Erich Raff (CSU) in its role as shareholders’ meeting. The decision in a closed session is said to have been made with a majority of around two thirds, according to SZ information, especially many BBV politicians, parts of the SPD and the ÖDP parliamentary group rejected the compromise. The manager’s liability insurance, which will cover the amount, had apparently declined a higher payment. The background to this is the approval of additional bonuses for the former head of the municipal utilities, who has meanwhile been dismissed, by the chairman of the supervisory board, Erich Raff – without the required approval of the supervisory board. According to the municipal utility’s calculations, the allowances totaled a good 120,000 euros. The comparison with which they now want to avoid a risk of litigation costs provides for 75,000 euros. The supervisory boards of the municipal utilities took part in the vote, Mayor Raff left the room during the debate.
BBV parliamentary group spokesman and supervisory board Christian Götz commented on Wednesday when asked by SZ about the settlement that has been decided, which will be signed by the second mayor Christian Stangl (Greens) in the next few days. He considers the claims in the original amount to be largely justified, the insurance company has been accommodated too far – at the expense of the municipal subsidiary. It is not about the person of the OB, said Götz. He had long admitted his mistake.
Götz doubts the representation of Alexa Zierl (ÖDP), who fears that the city council could, in the worst case, be made liable for voluntarily renouncing part of the claim. In the public part of the meeting, Zierl had called for the point to be canceled because it had to be decided first by the municipal utilities’ supervisory board. She criticizes the fact that the control body is being ignored when it comes to compensation and settlement. Götz does not agree with this point of view: A discussion in the supervisory board, which is largely made up of city councilors, would not have changed anything. Like Stangl, he hopes that one can “draw a line” under the matter in the interests of the public utility company. It remains to be seen whether the additional bonuses approved without the approval of the Supervisory Board will have legal consequences. The public prosecutor has questioned several city councilors in the past few months, but so far has not commented on the possible start of a preliminary investigation.
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