The corona pandemic is leaving its mark on the finances of the 6,000-inhabitant community. For the second time in a row, the municipal council had to pass a budget that actually cannot be approved. Because this year, too, the municipality will not be able to repay its loans as prescribed by the state. Instead of the necessary 488,000 euros, the municipality earns only 91,000 euros in its business operations. In order to meet her obligations, she has to use her savings and take around 570,000 euros from the reserves and incur further debts of 1.55 million euros.
Hebertshausen must therefore save. Just where? Mayor Richard Reischl (CSU) gives in an interview with the SZ Dachau as a rule from: “We have to separate what is desirable from what is necessary.” But before he goes into detail, he points to the considerable number of properties he has acquired for the community in recent years, the best investment of all today. Back to the financial distress of the community. Reischl mentions the keyword “Corona”: “Because of the pandemic, we received around 1.6 million euros less in taxes.” A hole that cannot be closed even with an iron austerity course. The two most important sources of income, income tax shares and trade taxes, are still gushing much more sparingly this year than in the pre-Corona times, says Reischl. His chamberlain, Christopher Reichelt, expects the municipality to receive around 4.6 million euros from the income tax pot this year. That is around 60,000 euros more than last year, but 155,000 euros less than in 2019. Reichelt also hopes that the Hebertshausen companies will be able to pay around 1.16 million euros in trade tax to the municipality by the end of the year. It would be 250,000 euros more than last year, but still 50,000 euros less than two years ago. But whether that will happen is uncertain. Reischl has noticed an increase in requests for deferral. For this reason, too, Reichelt warns: “The further possible financial effects of the Corona crisis are, like last year, still difficult and predictable.” Reischl is still annoyed about the “so-called help” of the Bavarian Ministry of Finance in matters of tax losses. “Only the municipalities with large industrial estates benefited from this. We and many other district municipalities, however, went away empty-handed,” says Reischl angrily. “Shameful for the Free State” is it.
—Mayor Richard Reischl (CSU) complains about the tax breaks.
(Photo: Niels P. Jørgensen)
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Especially since Hebertshausen, like all other district municipalities, has to shoulder constantly rising personnel costs. The community is growing and with it the tasks for which new employees are hired. For example, for childcare. An area in which Reischl and all of his colleagues have been demanding state (financial) commitment for years. The much discussed “large-scale allowance” does the rest: the allowance was first introduced in the state capital, after which all the surrounding municipalities actually followed suit in order to retain their skilled workers.
The main and finance committee met several times in the run-up to the budget meeting, turned the books and made some savings decisions. The municipality will postpone the purchase of a wood-burning oven, one of Reischl’s favorite projects, and the construction of a parking garage at the S-Bahn station at its own expense. It is still unclear whether the project really died completely. As reported, talks have been going on for some time with Deutsche Bahn and MVV, who want to build a dormitory for trainees near the train station and possibly a parking garage as well. However, the municipality would have to change the development plan for this. In the coming month, both sides want to meet in a special session of the municipal council on June 22nd. Reischl comments in a nutshell: “We are expecting an interesting offer.”
Total budget of the municipality of Hebertshausen: 19.5 million euros (planning for 2020: 20.9 million)
Administrative budget: 12.3 million (11.4 million)
Asset budget: 7.2 million (9.5 million)
The main sources of income for the administrative budget:
Income tax: 4.6 million euros (result 2020: 4.5 million; planning 2020: 4.4 million)
Trade tax: 1.16 million (0.9 million; 1.1 million)
Key assignment: 0.89 million (0.63 million; 0.63 million)
Property tax B: 0.65 million (0.62 million; 0.64 million)
The main expenditure items of the administrative budget:
Personnel expenses: 3.3 million euros (planning for 2020: 3.07 million)
District levy: 3.08 million (3.17 million)
Youth work, social affairs: 3.3 million (2.84 million)
Other financial expenses: 4.01 million (2.63 million)
Administrative expenses: 2.5 million (2.44 million)
School association: 0.66 million (0.69 million)
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Other projects, however, are indispensable for the mayor: for example the medical center on Krautgartenstrasse or the cycle path that will connect the Hebertshausen S-Bahn station with the Dachau district of Pellheim. Also the community house and the kindergarten in Prittlbach. The renovation of the gym, however, will be postponed to 2023.
The municipal council unanimously approved the budget for 2021 and at the same time decided to increase the assessment rates to 350 points throughout. To date, property tax A was 310 points, property tax 340 points and the trade tax multiplier was 330 points.
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