City Council work in 2018 in facts and figures
What do the elected representatives actually debate? Citizens of this city can find out for themselves in various ways: with the documents in the citizen information system at www.chemnitz.de, in the public gallery of the city council chamber or by watching the meeting via livestream. Very few people realise how long such a meeting can take and how often other committees meet to discuss municipal issues.
Here is a brief overview in figures from 2018:
Eleven public and three non-public city council deliberations were held in 2018. The meeting time - public and non-public deliberations combined - totalled 42 hours and 24 minutes. The shortest deliberation took place in March with 1 hour and 40 minutes, while the longest debate was held on 19 December 2018 with just over 8 hours. In total, the plenary session for Chemnitz and the residents of Chemnitz dealt with 177 public and five non-public draft resolutions. The committee ultimately adopted 164 public and three non-public administrative proposals. A total of 54 proposed resolutions (all public) were on the agenda in 2018. A total of 37 motions were adopted and thus issued to the administration.
A total of 22 information proposals were on the agenda this year. There were no urgent decisions by the Lord Mayor. A still significant number - combined with a high workload for the administration as the addressee of the enquiries - is recorded with 648 City Council enquiries submitted.
The eleven meetings broadcast this year were watched by a total of around 12,300 viewers, with the meeting on 19 December 2018 attracting the most viewers with 2,839 viewers.