Overview
- - The CSU and Free Voters outlined allocations spanning culture, science, sport, health and rural support, including more than €30 million for arts, museums and science, €7.5 million for health and care, and €10 million for youth, seniors and inclusion.
- - Flood-resilience measures feature prominently, with €2 million for the Arge Solidarischer Hochwasserschutz in Aichach-Friedberg (€1.6 million for an AI real-time early-warning system and €400,000 for a Paar catchment retention analysis) and €230,000 to test a flood measurement-station concept in Unterallgäu.
- - Health innovation includes €170,000 for the eResCopter pilot, an electrically powered VTOL project to organize patient transports in the Memmingen/Unterallgäu region.
- - Additional earmarks range from €8.6 million to preserve churches and historic buildings to targeted research and culture funds, such as €700,000 for a Regensburg–TUM antimicrobial project, €550,000 for continued Danuvius/Buronius excavations, €110,000 for an Oberammergau Passion Play study and €280,000 for the Alpenakademie.
- - Local grants illustrate the breadth of recipients, including Bad Wörishofen’s Festival der Nationen (€80,000), Ettringen’s parish-hall community center (€300,000), Tussenhausen’s Zaisertshofen community house (€150,000), Rammingen’s pool refurbishment (€280,000) and multiple small club and youth projects; the review starts in the budget committee, critics call the mechanism constituency spending and a 10% execution cut is flagged under a general budget freeze.