Innovative ideas for the Main-Kinzig-Kreis
"We are well positioned for the coming years", says Reiner Bousonville, leader of the Greens parliamentary group. For a weekend focusing on the coming budget, the Group met in Bad Soden-Salmünster under 2g plus conditions to discuss the circle's figures and thematic priorities.
"With our 17 representatives, we can be the largest Green Group since our political start in the Main-Kinzig district", the Group President said: "It is therefore all the more important that we discuss and evaluate the current political events of the circle in regular, intensive exchanges. This has shown once again that we want to advance and improve our district with great motivation."
An important factor here is the use of circular funds in the 2022 budget: “As the largest opposition party, we need to analyse the figures presented in detail. This was the focus of our two-day retreat.”
During the conversation with the chamberlain of the district and his deputy, as well as in the subsequent discussion in the group, it had become apparent that the main officials and the grand coalition are setting other priorities for the district in the coming years: "The budget is a purely administrative budget that does not provide any impetus for the important issues of the coming period," said Bousonville. Only the new Office for Digitalization focuses on the future topics: “There is little to no focus on issues such as cycle paths or climate protection. €300,000 a year for road construction and cycle paths clearly shows that the circle does not want to incentivise cyclists other than creating concepts.”
The topic of mobility is only timidly addressed by the Kreisspitze: ‘At the same time, the municipalities are supposed to go deeper into their pockets by increasing the district levy by two points and thus almost to the original value of 2020, while the district is responsible for a heavy burden on its own budget by hiring numerous new civil servants.’ Also, the money for the planning and implementation of the health academy is lacking: “In the tightly calculated budget, no additional costs due to unexpected burdens are included. The “saving” factor has been moved to the background here.”
The Kreistag Group will therefore focus on its own requests for the financial year 2022: “The Grand Coalition is not characterised by innovative ideas, but only by pure management of the existing. For the largest Hessian district, this is a fatal signal that the Grand Coalition intends to continue its ‘always on’ path in 2022. We, as the Green Group, have come up with numerous ideas for this local election in order to advance the district and improve the living conditions of the people in our district. We will also make this clear during the budgetary debate.”
Bousonville therefore hopes that the results of the intensive two-day consultation of the Green parliamentary group will also appeal to the political leaders in the district: "In recent years, budget proposals from the opposition have always been rejected on the grounds of the lack of money, while this year, for example, the district distributed millions of surpluses to the municipalities via a supplementary budget just before the local elections by reducing the district levy," concludes Bousonville.
Enquiries to:
Jakob Mähler
Group Managing Director
Alliance 90 / The Greens Main-Kinzig
06181/61596
0176/46763336
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