Andrea Brehmer (SPD), who was appointed by Lord Mayor Frank Klingebiel and given a briefing on her duties, will take over Wolfgang Bauer's seat on the council. The Council also voted unanimously for the proposed candidates to fill Mr. Bauer's seats on the committees.
The agenda also included the statutes of the City of Salzgitter on the establishment of school districts. The council members were unanimously in favor of amending the statutes.
They also voted unanimously in favor of the transfer of the school building in Salzgitter-Watenstedt to the Heinrich-Albertz-Schule association for the operation of an elementary school.
At the suggestion of Lord Mayor Frank Klingebiel and due to the convincing concept of the sponsoring association, the Council transferred the municipal school building free of charge in 2008 to support the educational work in order to establish a privately-run elementary school there. This decision was reconfirmed by the council in 2017 for the period until July 2022.
The council members also unanimously approved the 2nd supplementary budget bylaws for 2022. This is mainly necessary due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, refugee migration due to the war in Ukraine, changes in the municipal financial equalization system and the implementation of the supplementary staffing plan.
The city parliament was also informed about the funded inner city programs "Perspektive Innenstadt!" and "Zukunftsfähige Innenstädte und Zentren".
The city of Salzgitter plans to participate in the EU and federal funding programs in order to overcome the enormous challenges facing inner cities, city centers and town centers, which have been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.
The two programs are intended to address current problems in the centers of Salzgitter-Lebenstedt and Salzgitter-Bad not only in terms of construction and in a timely manner, but also with concepts and concretely implementable projects with a long-term perspective. A key component of the programs is the involvement of local stakeholders.