Leipzig's household 2025: Deficit of millions threatens despite plus!

Leipzig's household 2025: Deficit of millions threatens despite plus!

Leipzig faces a fifth person who significantly influences the city's budget for 2025 and 2026. The city council decided in March a household that should be approved, but the final approval by the state directorate is still pending. On June 26, the council was discussed at the Council assembly about unpaid funds from 2024, which could possibly be transferred to 2025. This is 14,500,814.30 euros from projects that started in 2024, but have not yet been billed, as well as 5,288,184.13 euros for urgent to be continued as [l-iz.de].

Financial Mayor Torsten Bonew (CDU) acted stricter than in previous years, especially with regard to the transferability of financial posts. For example, a position of 44,475 euros was not approved for the promotion of free art and culture that was intended for the transfer. Mayor Burkhard Jung emphasized the tense budget situation and mentioned a threatening deficit. It should be noted that Leipzig generated an increase of 30.4 million euros in the earnings budget and 22 million euros in the financial budget for 2024. Despite this positive balance sheet, the city's debt rose from 524 million euros to 1,007 million euros.

planned savings and staff reduction

In order to react to the financial difficulties, the city plans to save 100 million euros in the next three years. This is done as part of a voluntary budgetary budgetary concept, which also hopes for approval by the state directorate. A deficit of 61 million euros is currently expected, which is expected to continue to increase due to tariff and price increases. Bonew expressed that there are currently no concrete savings plans and that all urban budgets could be affected by the savings - without taboos. Particular attention is paid to personnel reduction; Around 500 jobs are to be saved by 2027. Personnel expenses are among the major cost factors in the city, in addition to increased energy and material costs.

These developments in the last budget meant that some jobs were not filled and employees were transferred to other posts. However, CFO Bonew assured that nobody had to fear for his job and that there should be no dismissals, so [mdr.de].

effects on cultural and public projects

The majority of the city council rejected the transfer of funds from 2024 into 2025 in a recent vote. Among other things, an application was rejected, which had requested 44,000 euros for free art and culture, 300,000 euros for preliminary planning, 83,000 euros for traffic planning and around 7,500 euros for projects by the district councils. An overview of non -transferred financial posts has so far been missing, which could certainly lead to further surprises. This exacerbates the concerns about the financing of vital cultural and public projects in the city, as the [l-iz.de] notes.

The current development in Leipzig clearly shows how quickly financial bottlenecks can arise and which decisions have to be made in order to stabilize the city's budgetary situation in the long term. The next few months will be decisive to clarify whether the planned savings will be sufficient to get out of the tense financial situation.