“If the financial situation of the cities and municipalities in general does not change, many things will no longer be possible in the future, and not only for us…” This is what the mayor of the Upper Austrian city says, who If we If we cannot operate the ice rink next winter for budgetary reasons, we will achieve more.
Reed! Heart of the Innviertel. School town. For years it was even the football capital of Upper Austria. But in winter there is no ice to offer even to sports fans, apart from freezers in department stores, long drinks in bars and icicles on roofs.
The fact is: the ice rink in the city of 12,700 inhabitants will remain closed for cost reasons at least this year! This is the space in the exhibition center where last winter some 13,000 mostly young skaters, hockey players and ice disco guests roamed around with stick shooters.
“This hall was a meeting place for everyone who could not afford a holiday in Arlberg. My heart aches at the development itself,” says deputy city manager Bernhard Zwielehner about the end. SP deputy Peter Stummer calls this ‘madness’. Reason: “Our young people have nothing left!”
Although, according to Stummer, the costs are only 65,000 euros per winter, of which 50,000 would be returned, according to the red city representative. The SP politician continued: “The rent, which amounts to about 17,000 euros, and the electricity costs, which amount to 25,000 euros, would also come back because they would have to be paid to the stock exchange or to Energie Ried.”
A bill that Mayor Zwielehner calls ‘eyewashing’ and ‘sleight of hand’. In this context, he refers to the unanimous budget decision from the spring that the ice rink operation had to be saved for economic reasons, especially because many ice rink users come from surrounding communities. That is why Zwielehner also provides a cross-district ice rink solution. in the future.
Until then, winter sports for young people in Ried seem to be virtually on hold. But the city boss doesn’t want to stop there either: “We have more than a hundred clubs – that’s plenty to offer!” A worrying conclusion: “If the financial situation of cities and communities in general does not change, it will not only be in Ried in the future. “A lot of things don’t work out anymore.”
Source: Krone
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