“It’s unbelievable how the costs are rising,” Heidi Malnati (CDU) also shook her head. That is no longer justifiable. The project management wanted to reduce costs.
Her parliamentary group colleague Thomas Kuri, on the other hand, felt compelled to “break a lance” for project management. The decision to establish one was “taken far too late,” complained the CDU city council. In fact, the project management takes on tasks that the city administration actually has to do, but which it is unable to do due to a shortage of staff. “Stopping project control now would be the wrong approach,” warned Kuri.
Dirk Harscher would also play the same horn. “We can’t do it without project management,” affirmed the mayor. The building authority does not have the necessary capacities for this task.
Teresa Bühler (SPD) nonetheless wondered why the local council was only finding out now, when the “pot was empty”, that the financial resources for project management had already been exhausted after half of the planned term. “We should have found out about that much earlier and not just shortly before,” she criticized.
Felix Straub (Greens) advocated limiting the cost increase in cost control to a moderate amount.
Eddi Mutter emphasized that the staffing level in the building department was too thin for project management on the campus. In his words, two employees will also leave the town hall in the next few months. The job advertisement has so far been unsuccessful, according to the technical assistant.
Hildegard Pfeifer-Zäh described the external project management as “absolutely necessary”. Resolutions of the municipal council, which in some cases required extensive rescheduling, are also responsible for the increase in costs. “We have to increase the budget, the only question is whether it has to be that much,” said the group leader of the Free Voters.
At the request of the SPD, the municipal council postponed the decision. Instead, the city administration should calculate “with a sharp pen” (Peter Ulrich) and renegotiate with the office in order to “save massive amounts of money”.
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