Municipality broke

No more funding for clubs

Empty coffers are now also forcing the municipality of Bad St. Leonhard to take a drastic step, which primarily affects cultural and club life. However, the head of the municipality has an (emergency) plan.

Save, save, save: The municipality of Bad St. Leonhard has cut 80 percent of voluntary services in this year's budget. With a budget of around 12 million euros, only just over 200,000 euros could be planned for projects.

"We are sorry, but we had to cut all voluntary services. Whether clubs, flower Olympics, Christmas parties, excursions and much more," says Mayor Dieter Dohr to the "Krone" newspaper. And that is a bitter pill to swallow for the community's clubs, which after all co-finance their work from municipal funding.

"Necessary step"
According to Dohr, however, this step was necessary, as road construction will swallow up two million euros in the coming year. "These are urgent projects that we will also need in the future." The municipality has to manage a total of 200 kilometers of road. The auditor also supported the decision at the expense of the citizens.

Dohr: "But I'm giving up all my discretionary funds for this, so we'll also have around 30,000 euros, which will remain for clubs - otherwise our cultural life will soon die out." Incidentally, every department in the municipality still has the opportunity to save further money in their departments or discretionary funds until the supplementary estimate is made.