Bureaucracy jungle in Neu-Eichenberg: treasurer warns of working stress!

Bureaucracy jungle in Neu-Eichenberg: treasurer warns of working stress!

In the small municipality of Neu-Eichenberg, the employees of the municipal administration are often under pressure, especially in the finance department. Comerator Roland Burdack critically comments on the bureaucracy, which makes everyday work difficult. With a team consisting of two full-time and three part-time employees, as well as the mayor, you are extremely challenged in Neu-Eichenberg. 20 statistics have to be created every year, and the tendency shows that it could be more and more, such as the HNA reported.

The challenge is reinforced by different software from the financial supervision and the Hessian State Statistical Office. Burdack urgently demands standardization of data requirements and better access to the municipal databases. If precise data is already available, the often necessary renewed deployments are not only inefficient, but also bring additional work with it. The processing times fluctuate strongly-while some statistics are done in 3-4 hours, the creation of the budget can take up to two weeks.

financial hurdles and funding

Not only the bureaucracy ensures high workload, the application for funding is also complicated. Burdack reports that even small funding amounts of 500 euros can result in an enormous effort of 4-5 hours. The extensive evidence often leads to penalty payments or cuts if deadlines are not met. Small municipalities such as Neu-Eichenberg in particular rely on these financial support in order to remain capable of action.

The FDP has also criticized that federal funds are often held back at the state level and are not passed on to the municipalities. It demands a principle of connexuality that says that tasks and the necessary financial means belong together. For overloaded municipalities, the party is calling for a debt relief program that should go hand in hand with important infrastructure projects, as from the report of the Institute .

for Burdack, the high examination effort to determine eligibility is also a serious problem. "More and more control functions by various institutions are burdening us," he explains. The situation is not easier because there is no over -authorized test service that centralized the data.

public orders and tenders

Another topic is the public orders that often require extensive consumption and tenders. This can be time -consuming in particular for funded projects. An example of this is the purchase of a new relay fire engine, which must be carried out on time so that the funding is not lost.