Public relations
At the request of the CDU decided the City Council on Thursday, 5 September 2024that in the Department 01 Public Relations/New Media/Internetwho is the Mayor is subordinate, One position cancelled from 2025 is to be realised. In the view of the CDU, this area is more than adequately staffed. Other areas of the administration, on the other hand, are not. It is essential that the municipal funds for communication and public relations are used in such a way that they exclusively serve the municipal tasks.
Finances
At the request of the CDU the mayor laid the foundation on Thursday 5.9.2024 in the Council the status of Trade tax revenue before. This confirmed the CDU's fears that the acute withdrawal of various companiesThe city's coffers are being torn a hole by the companies that actually wanted to relocate to Kaarst. Quote from Mayor Baum: "For this reason, according to current planning, there will be around EUR 4 million less trade tax income in 2026 compared to the 2023 plan." After the parliamentary groups of CDU, B90, FDP, SPD and UWG/Kaarst Aktiv The fact that the city council has set the course for a consolidation process, which unfortunately also involved unpleasant decisions at the expense of citizens, is a bitter setback. Here the Mayor and her team now more in demand than everfinally the to market vacant commercial propertiesin order to generate further income from property proceeds and additional trade tax.
Concerns of people with disabilities
At the request of the CDU the adoption of the Statutes to safeguard the interests of people with disabilities was postponed by the council on Thursday, although the mayor was keen to have it decided. Various representatives of people with disabilities were at the Council meeting came to express their displeasure with the administration. The administration had not, as promised, included them in the Counselling process which includes a Round table was planned. The application for Adjournment They were therefore pleased to note that they would have asked for it themselves. Until the Meeting in October is now to be published under Involvement of all relevant groups and politics a draft of the articles of association.