Municipalities on the edge of the bankruptcy: Red alarm level in the Freistadt district!

Municipalities on the edge of the bankruptcy: Red alarm level in the Freistadt district!

Recently, numerous communities in Upper Austria are facing enormous financial challenges. Christian Denkmaier, the mayor of Neumarkt in the Mühlkreis (SPÖ), warned that the mandatory issues such as payments to the Social welfare association and increasing costs in childcare are strongly concerned with municipal households. The proportion of households that can no longer be balanced is now 75 percent in the Freistadt district. In order to react to this trend, eight municipal councils have written a resolution to the state government in order to initiate urgently necessary changes. According to Mayor Günter Lorenz von Rainbach in the Mühlkreis (ÖVP), the resources of the employees have been heavily burdened, which often leads to illness -related failures, as orf reported.

urgent need for action

municipal officer Michaela Langer-Weninger (ÖVP) emphasized that the budget frame for voluntary expenses has already been adjusted, but she also sees the Bund government as a duty to develop solutions. If the financial framework is not improved promptly, those responsible fear far -reaching negative development, which could affect not only the clubs, but also the volunteers and ultimately all of the community life. The resolution thus represents an appeal to the state government to take the acute financial emergency of the municipalities seriously and act as quickly as possible to avoid impending bottlenecks, which is also noted in the corresponding document of the state government, as VAB