Thrift had a high priority during the budget consultations in Nandlstadt. There is a “ranking” for the investments.
Nandlstadt – According to Nandlstadt’s treasurer Martin Anneser, a “significant additional burden on the expenditure side” has meant that the municipality had to make massive cuts – and must continue to make cuts. And one thing is certain for the financial expert: “We will have to take out loans for future projects,” he said on Thursday in the municipal council when the 2023 budget was voted on.
Even if the income in the administrative budget has increased slightly – for example in the case of trade tax by 34 percent from 850,000 euros last year to 1.1 million euros in 2023 – this is offset by massive expenditure; above all the personnel costs, which rose from around 3.4 million last year to 3.8 million euros.
The most important income items in the asset budget include the withdrawal from the reserves at around 2.6 million euros, the sale of building plots at 1.5 million euros and the sale of commercial property at 1.1 million euros. On the other hand, there are many investments with large amounts: around 1.7 million euros are planned for the purchase of land alone. Canal construction measures cost 650,000 euros, road construction at 750,000 euros.
The list of investments is long
The renovation of the forest pool, which costs the municipality a total of around 1.5 million euros, will burden the 2023 budget with 250,000 euros. 85,000 euros are planned for the design of the cemetery, which one finally wants to tackle this year (we have reported), and 50,000 euros for the broadband expansion, to name just a few items. The planning costs for a third kindergarten are also estimated at 35,000 euros, and the same amount for the planning costs for the new fire station in Airischwand, for which the market council only gave the green light in the February meeting.
- Total volume: 17.83 million euros (previous year: 19.26 million euros)
- Administrative budget: EUR 11.16 million (€10.16 million)
- Asset budget: 6.68 million euros (9.10 million €)
- Debt: 3.42 million euros (3.93 million euros)
- Per capita debt: 629 euros (742 euros)
- Reserves: 878,600 euros (2.69 million euros)
“It was not easy for us to put together a decent budget for 2023,” summarized CSU Market Councilor Franz Mayer. But good cooperation between all factions and the clean work of the administration led to a good result. Even if the CSU fundamentally agrees with the budget, there is one thing “that concerns us,” says Mayer: the renovation of the sewage treatment plant and the associated “still not fixed loan” – a project that is “urgently in must be tackled” and that Mayor Gerhard Betz should make it “a top priority”. In this case, “too little happened to us,” Mayer complained, with a view to lower interest rates for loans that would have existed about a year ago – and which the community had not secured.
Background: The renovation of the sewage treatment plant costs around 5.7 million euros. In order to finance the measure, two million euros were withdrawn from the reserves, the rest runs through a loan. With the fees that you have to collect from the citizens, the reserves are replenished first, the credit is at the back. Mayer knows: “Every interest rate hike costs the community money.” Costs that should at least be kept as low as possible.
Prioritization of planned projects a must
As far as further financial planning is concerned, Mayer, as in the February meeting, called for a “ranking” to be drawn up of which projects are important. And there are some pending, as Regina Schillinger (UWN) explained – such as the school expansion with space for all-day care, the creation of childcare places or the new construction of the fire station in Airischwand. She also spoke out clearly in favor of “prioritisation”.
GOL market leader Erhard Schönegge thinks it is basically “right that you don’t spend anything that you don’t have”. But when it comes to the energy transition, not enough has happened to him in the past – corresponding proposals from the Greens market councils have often been “smashed”. His hope, or rather his request, is that this topic will “not be completely stalled” in the future.
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Conclusion after 20 minutes: “We will have to tighten our belts,” said Gerhard Betz. And you will – as in the run-up to the budget meeting – have to think carefully about “which projects can and should be implemented”. Martin Anneser’s figures were unanimously approved.
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