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Drawing a line under the 2025 financial year

The final accounts for 2025 for the City of Beckum’s budget have been approved. The financial year ended with a deficit of 640,316.59 euros. The budget had originally forecast a deficit of around 10.08 million euros. The key factor behind this significant improvement is higher trade tax revenue of around 11.5 million euros, which, fortunately, was well above the budgeted figure.

The net loss for the year is taken from the equalisation reserve. The closing balance sheet total amounts to around 323 million euros.

Following a thorough audit, the appointed audit firm Curacon has unqualifiedly endorsed the annual accounts of the town of Beckum. Mayor Michael Gerdhenrich was granted discharge at yesterday’s meeting.

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Using the ‘Bau-Turbo’

The Council has agreed on how the Act to Accelerate Housing Construction and Secure Housing can be applied in practice in Beckum. The policy decision reached on the so-called ‘Bau-Turbo’ sets out guidelines for applying the newly created provisions in the Building Code. In addition to formal requirements, these include an urban planning ‘negative list’ which excludes certain – urbanistically undesirable – building projects from the outset, as well as further framework conditions for implementation. It was also decided in which cases the Council or the Committee for Urban Development will make decisions and when the Mayor is responsible.

Draft resolution

Climate adaptation plan adopted

The climate adaptation plan, drawn up in collaboration with the Warendorf district, has been approved. In addition to an overall strategy and a hotspot analysis, it sets out the following specific key measures for Beckum, which are to be implemented in the short term:

• Identify and systematically exploit opportunities for unsealing,
• develop a preventative strategy for heavy rainfall (including analysis and investigation of heavy rainfall),
• Implementation of a green space management system and the development of climate-adapted green space management plans.
  
  

The concept serves as a management tool at local authority and district level.

Draft resolution