Citizens in Bad Münder: Dispute over tax money for digital information pillars!

Citizens in Bad Münder: Dispute over tax money for digital information pillars!

In Bad Münder, a violent dispute over the planned introduction of digital information pillars is raging. Mayor Hartmut Barkowski speaks against the purchase and sees it a potential waste of money, such as ndz reported. In his view, he not only wants to save taxpayers, but also prevent citizens' dissatisfaction from growing through the use of the pillars. This is primarily due to a planned online survey, which is significantly cheaper at around 300 euros than the expected costs of the pillars that are estimated at up to 300,000 euros.

The board of the SPD parliamentary group, Wilfried Hartmann, criticizes the mayor's ideas and sees the citizens' survey as superfluous. He claims that the costs for the survey would not be justified and criticizes the method as unjust to the council, which should act as sovereign. Barkowski counters that a majority in the administrative committee voted for the survey, which in his opinion respects the democratic principle: "In my view, such a majority decision is democratically made and accepted."

Citizen participation in focus

Especially in times when citizen participation is required more than ever, the approaches that are used for decision -making are viewed particularly critically. The various methods of citizen participation, about which is informed on Buergergesellschaft.de . In practice, such as the "activating survey", citizens are directly involved in the decision -making processes, which may lead to a higher acceptance of projects. The planned digital columns could be a challenge, since their acceptance has so far been very controversial.