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This is vehemently get to the World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB) to work correctly, it ran the damp city financially powerful. Greens and Christian Democrats are assuming that only for the completion of conference hall and accommodation for 60 to 70 million euros are missing! Not including the damage to the building disaster.
This damage is already safely in the three-digit million euro range, "believes the Open Group Spokesman Peter Finger. With Klaus Peter Gilles (CDU), he submitted a request for the meeting of the Planning Committee on 10 February before. "First of all we need) the operation of existing buildings (Plenary Hall, Waterworks, Beethoven Hall, editor's note, released from completion and operation of the new buildings look," says Gilles.
For when Congress Hall Hotel and times could be done, written in the stars. "The optimistic earliest date for an official opening is summer of 2011, in the opinion of the Open Group CEO Tom Schmidt. The remaining construction work to be tendered throughout Europe - and it takes ...
But that only works if sometimes "responsible decisions are made." That is, according to Greens and the CDU only possible when the Administration quickly clarifies some important issues. Finger: "We need to know what our options remain for the continued operation of existing buildings and for the completion of new buildings. For this we need to know exactly what opportunities and risks, the WCCB actually entails. "
For the time being should be part of the WCCB Management GmbH - namely, personnel and operating equipment such as computers - purchased or acquired by the city.
The continued operation of the WCCB will cost about 330,000, according to liquidator Christopher Seagon per month. Money that (the city actually) does not have. "We will continue given the budgetary situation do not make decisions anymore without that we have fully understood everything," said Tom Schmidt. Therefore, the coalition calls on the administration of a business plan and a breakdown of how much staff is needed and why.
On 18 February is expected to fall within the Council's decision on WCCB. Peter Finger: "If we go well prepared with all the numbers from the administration in the session, we'll get through this quickly." Then the city would virtually the "boss" in the WCCB, could operate the conference center.
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