The Durbach municipal council unanimously approved the 2020 annual financial statements with a result of 729,000 euros instead of the expected 583,000 euros. No more credit since Mayor König.
Chamberlain Brigitte Wick had only positive news in the luggage for the Durbach municipal council on Thursday. Despite the pandemic and the associated restrictions, the 2020 annual financial statements were far better than planned before the virus arrived in 2019.
The financial year ended with a decent result of 729 569 euros, exceeding the estimate of around 583,000 euros. The total budget income of 9.06 million euros is offset by expenses of 8.33 million euros. The community also had sufficient cash in hand, as Wick explained. Thus, at the end of the year, a final balance of cash in the amount of 2.187 million euros was posted, including the regular loan repayment of around 87,300 euros. At the end of the year, the loan portfolio of the municipality showed a balance of 1.559 million euros.
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For seven years, and thus since the beginning of the first term of office of Mayor Andreas König, according to Brigitte Wick, the community no longer had to take out loans in its core budget, despite high investments such as the new construction of the Steinberghalle, the renovation and expansion of the two daycare centers as well as the renovation and expansion the Staufenberg School.
The real assets alone show an item of 21.62 million in the balance sheet, the financial assets around 3.30 million euros, with 5.07 million reserves. Last year, 616,000 euros were collected in trade tax, 650,000 euros in trade tax income were set; Even with the municipality’s share of income tax, around 228,000 euros less came into the municipal treasury, at 2.321 million euros, than with the budget estimate of 2.55 million euros. Overall, the municipality had to forego around 470,000 euros for the income item “taxes and similar charges”, also for reasons of pandemic. However, this was more than offset by more allocations and allocations with an increase of 508,000 euros compared to the budget estimate of 2.68 million euros.
1.2 million euros were invested in the digital expansion of the Staufenberg School, final invoices for the Steinberghalle, street renovation measures and other projects. “A financially good year despite the pandemic,” Mayor Andreas König praised the annual financial statements, “the year ended far better than feared and that gives us courage to tackle the coming years”.
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