Series on budget resolutions 2023/2024
In March of this year, Chemnitz City Council approved the budget for 2023 and 2024. The total expenditure of around one billion euros includes numerous projects such as the installation of street furniture on the Schlossteich site, the refurbishment of the sauna in the municipal swimming pool and the redesign of the basketball court in Konkordiapark.
Selected projects were presented in a series here on the website, on the city's social media channels and in the official gazette.
On 22 March, the majority of Chemnitz City Council approved the city's budget for 2023 and 2024.
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Basketball court gets a new look
The idea of campaigning for the redesign of the basketball court at Konkordiapark arose from Andre Zimpel's passion for basketball. As a big fan and art and culture enthusiast, he wants to generate attention for Chemnitz with the planned project. In this interview, he provides background information on the Konkordiapark redevelopment project.
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Free hygiene products at schools
If the state directorate confirms the budget, 10,000 euros will be spent this year and next year on implementing the programme: this will be used to provide hygiene product dispensers as well as tampons and sanitary towels for schools. There are already dispensers at four schools in Chemnitz from which schoolgirls can take period products free of charge. The Chemnitz Youth Forum had campaigned for this. At many other schools, pupils have made sure that there are small boxes in the toilets from which anyone can take something if they need it. Pupils often use their own pocket money to put new period products in these boxes, which they then use to help out their fellow pupils. Hermine Lowke, Stella Kimmer and Maurizio Brückner from the City Pupils' Council explain in an interview why it is so important that free toiletries are distributed at all Chemnitz schools.
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A silver lime tree becomes a market tree
Peter Börner is a garden and landscape architect and, as head of the green spaces department, oversees numerous construction projects in the city of Chemnitz. Following the city council's budget decisions in March, a tree on the market square and street furniture for the Schlossteichpark and island are now to be realised.
In this interview, Peter Börner explains the hurdles involved and the expected time frame.
Digital agenda
The aim is to introduce electronic files in the administrative offices. The digital mailroom, digital teaching in schools and cyber security within the administration are further topics on the agenda. Of course, this requires not only people to implement this, but also money. Several million euros have therefore been set aside for this in the 2023/24 double budget.
In this interview, Mayor Ralph Burghart explains how the money will be used to further advance digitalisation in the city of Chemnitz.
Cosmonaut Centre: Simulated space flight 2.0
A white low-rise building, exhibition areas, a high ropes course and a shiny 36-metre-high rocket on the roof: the Cosmonaut Centre has been an integral part of Chemnitz's educational and cultural landscape since 14 August 1964.
Named after Sigmund Jähn, the first German space traveller and honorary citizen of the city, it is now part of the adventure education centre in Küchwaldpark. Stephan Claus, head of the centre, reports on what can be renovated with the approved funding.
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Sauna in the municipal pool: reopening in sight
In the series on budget decisions, this time we take a look at the sauna at the municipal swimming pool. Chemnitz City Council has decided to invest 25,000 euros in refurbishment measures. In this interview, Norman Schröder, Head of the Baths Department, explains the current state of the sauna and how the financial support will be used.
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A hard court becomes a hockey pitch
One pitch, two goals, brown gravel and a few puddles - this is the picture of the hard football pitch at the Poststadion in Bernsdorf. Where football hardly ever takes place anymore, a hockey pitch is to be built in the future - after funds have been pledged by the town council.
"On the one hand, the pitch has the dimensions we need and, on the other, the building site is favourable so that the construction of an artificial turf pitch can be easily realised," explains Mirko Rost, one of the initiators of the project. The hard pitch is part of a six-hectare site, including the club building and another football pitch, which is to be purchased by the city of Chemnitz in the first stage. In the second stage, the hard pitch will be converted into a hockey pitch: including drainage, irrigation system, cisterns, fences, players' benches and spectator seating.