City administration 2020: administration wants to launch structural concept
Objective: To achieve a good balance between budget consolidation and long-term personnel development
The city administration 2020: How many employees does it still have? What tasks does it have? In what quality and to what standards are they carried out? And what is the right administrative structure for this?
At its meeting on 18 December, the City Council will decide on the further course of the administrative and structural concept. The 23 measures proposed by a management consultancy for budget consolidation, which have a structural effect on the administration, will then be put to the vote. These include, for example, merging offices or changing work processes in individual areas. The implementation of the other 33 measures had already been abandoned in the course of the discussion on the proposals.
The administration now intends to work with the city councillors next year to develop the "Chemnitz City Administration 2020" structural concept. On the one hand, this is intended to achieve the necessary budget balance in the years from 2015 onwards, and on the other hand - also with regard to the issues mentioned at the beginning - to present a well-founded personnel development concept.
Since 1998, 41 per cent of the administration's workforce has been cut. By 2025, a further 1,265 employees - that's a third of the current workforce - will leave for reasons of age. "This is a turning point, a development that companies and other municipalities are also facing," says Lord Mayor Barbara Ludwig. "We will certainly not fill all positions again, but we need to be clear about which tasks we want to deploy how many staff for in the future. What standards are possible. Or even which tasks we will do without." Personnel planning, training and qualifications must be geared towards this in future.
The "City Administration 2020" concept is to be developed by next autumn. The parliamentary groups are to be involved in the steering group headed by Lord Mayor Barbara Ludwig and will be regularly informed of all results, which are recorded by two internal administrative working groups. They are focussing on the topics of personnel/structure and processes/e-government.
If the measures now on the table are adopted on 18 December, the budget for 2014 and subsequent years will not yet be fully balanced. "However, I am very optimistic that this can be achieved by February if no further burdens are placed on us."
This is supported, for example, by the positive development of trade tax revenues, which are higher per capita in Chemnitz than in Dresden, Leipzig, Halle or Rostock, for example. This contrasts with falling allocations. In addition, the outstanding annual financial statements and the results of the tax estimate will be scrutinised once again.
"We must succeed in striking a good balance between what is desirable and what is feasible in the future," said Mayor Barbara Ludwig.