The city should buy all Weilheimer senior citizens a 20-Euro voucher for the restaurants in the circle city. Called AfD-councillor Rüdiger Imgart. However, the panel was against it.

Weilheim – every year the city invites because home their citizens who are at least 65 years old, to a lunch at the folk festival. But this year it was nothing to do – as we know, this is because Heimer people failed fixed 2020 as a result of the Corona pandemic. Instead, the city Council Rüdiger Imgart (AfD), called for now-should give the city this year, all Weilheimer senior citizens a 20-Euro voucher, redeemable in all restaurants in the circle city. Thus, the town could put a "sign to the active combat of the Corona-follow", so Imgart in his application: The due to the bursting of the folk-invitation saved funds should be "Concerned, and especially the cafes, Restaurants, and hotels in Weilheim for the benefit of". This is because these are affected by the protection measures in connection with Corona especially.

In the request, a funding proposal

at its meeting last Thursday was missing has deals because home the city Council with the request, although he must take it is not on the agenda would be, like, the mayor, Markus Loth (BfW) stressed. Because the request did not contain a proposal for Financing. Such calls for the rules of procedure of the city Council, however, if the application costs are not planned already in the budget.

And these costs would be considerable, as Stefan Popp from the office of vorrechnete in the town hall. Around 110 000 Euro plus shipping would cost Imgarts proposal to the city, while the budget for the festival-invitation only 24 000 euros were budgeted for. This sum comes from the experience of the previous years. So the city sent out last year to 5486 Weilheimer senior vouchers (€3.50 for a drink and a meal). 3195 these are citizens, 58 percent, had redeemed their vouchers. At seven euros per Person, this meant for the city in 2019, for a cost of around 22 000 euros plus shipping.

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The city Council majority rejected the application of the AfD representative, but not only because of the significantly higher cost. Brigitte Holeczek (BfW), senior assistant to the Board, and led into the field, the annual national invitation, above all, a social event, a welcome change for residents was. There are more to each other than about food. However, some seniors do not "could go in restaurants", so Holeczek more – and you can see it is also critical, "if the city attracts, especially at-risk groups in the Corona of the time in pubs".

"the wrong way"

Zaika Gebauer-Merx (FDP), fixed the city Council speaker for fairs, markets and the people, stressed that in the case of the folk festival-the invitation is always the landlord "take the other half" of the cost. And you referred to a "high effort", the because home restaurateurs have a system in Imgarts sense. "It is certainly true that you have to support the gastronomy in the city," says Gebauer-Merx, "but this is the wrong way." In contrast, Ullrich found Klinkicht ("because the home we reported to each other") the voucher request is quite "charming" – "especially against the Background that we have increased our Meeting attendance fees" (), he said: The coupon amount should be ten euros reduced.

The vast majority of the city Council Imgarts application, however, rejected without further word messages. In addition to the applicant had voted in the end, only Klinkicht for it.