Gosteli Foundation is to receive more money from the canton of Bern
The canton of Bern is to support the Gosteli Foundation in Worblaufen with 450,000 instead of the previous 100,000 francs per year. That is what the Finance Commission (Fiko) of the Bernese Grand Council wants.
Marthe Gosteli in February 1991 in the archive of the Swiss women’s movement that she founded. (Archive image)
Photo: Keystone / Allesandro della Valle
The Gosteli Foundation for the History of the Women’s Movement in Switzerland is to receive CHF 450,000 per year from the canton of Bern instead of the previous CHF 100,000. That is what the Finance Commission (Fiko) of the Bernese Grand Council wants.
As she announced on Tuesday, she supports a non-partisan financial motion that was submitted to the Grand Council with this aim. The cantonal government rejects the increase in the contribution. The cantonal parliament will still have to decide on the motion.
According to the announcement, Fiko thinks, like the cantonal government, that the financial leeway of the canton of Bern is limited. Without an increase in the canton’s contribution to the Gosteli Foundation, not only the further development but also the continued existence of the foundation would be jeopardized. The latter is of “outstanding importance” for the history of the women’s movement in Switzerland.
Last and at the beginning of this year, the federal councils decided that the federal government would pay a total of 2.2 million francs over the next four years to maintain the Gosteli archive. With this federal decision, the condition of the canton of Bern was met so that it could also make a financial contribution, it was said at the time.
The feminist Marthe Gosteli founded the archive in 1982 in Worblaufen (Ittigen municipality). The pioneer of gender equality died in April 2017 at the age of 100. In the 1960s she played a decisive role in the women’s movement in Switzerland.
The Gosteli archive has so far been financed by private individuals and has a deficit every year.
Less money for handicapped conference
The Fiko of the Grand Council says no to another financial motive, which is pending in the Grand Council. It is about the financing of the current services of the Cantonal Conference of the Disabled in Bern until the Disability Benefits Act comes into force.
If the motion were transferred to the cantonal government in the Grand Council, it would have to continue with today’s services and forego the planned reduction of 110,000 francs.
Fiko also supports the cantonal government’s plans to waive the alcohol levy for restaurants in 2021 due to the consequences of the corona pandemic. She also says yes to the loan application adapted by the government council in the amount of 22 million francs to the Swiss Center for Design and Health in Bern.
Fiko deals with tax cases
Fiko wants to pursue the case picked up in the media, according to which a taxpayer tried to buy back his certificates of loss from tax claims and was thus defeated before the administrative court.
It will have the government and the competent authority show you in detail the general functioning, processes and responsibilities with regard to the repurchase of loss certificates.
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I am a US citizen and my name is Martha Gostely. My grandfather, Emile A. Gosteli, an orphan, emigrated here from near Bern, Switzerland around 1880. (I believe his last name was changed by US immigration officials.I speculate that we are related. Are there a great number of people named Gosteli in Switzerland?