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Currently, the Unterhachinger Kubiz is home to clubs. © Sabine Beisken-Hengge
How can all-day care for Unterhaching’s primary school children be made possible? The community discussed the plans for the new construction or renovation of the Kubiz…
Unterhaching – The time pressure was clearly noticeable at the most recent municipal council meeting. From the 2026/27 school year, parents will have a legal right to all-day care for their primary school children. “They will sue for it,” predicted Mayor Wolfgang Panzer (SPD).
For three years, people have been struggling to find a sustainable and affordable solution. However, this seems a long way off: some prefer a new building or a container site on the municipal land on Utzweg. A school campus that includes the Jahnschule could be built here.
The opposing side considers a change of use of the Kubiz, which would involve reconstruction, to be the only feasible and affordable option. This solution would require the adult education center to move into three rooms in the children’s home.
Presentation presents advantages of a conversion
Astrid Abou El Ela from the Department of Care and Education in Unterhaching Town Hall presented the current plans for the Kubiz renovation. 198 children are not expected to be cared for. Instead, space is to be created for 127 children in eight group rooms on the second floor of the Kubiz and for 71 elementary school students on the ground floor. The gymnasium is to be used for lunch from 11:15 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mobile tables with integrated chairs are to be purchased for this purpose.
Abou El Ela sees the advantages of using Kubiz in its proximity to the primary school and in its financial viability. The cost of the conversion is estimated at 945,000 euros, less a total subsidy of 450,000 euros.
The Kubiz solution is opposed by the desire of the CSU faction in particular to build a new building on the municipality’s property on Utzweg. For this, inexpensive and practical solutions using wooden modular construction have been proposed, stresses CSU faction leader Korbinian Rausch. This is particularly forward-looking because it can be expanded if necessary – in contrast to the rooms in the Kubiz. “Children want space to run around and not just move around in the narrow Kubiz rooms.”
Reconstruction too expensive – parliamentary group supports new construction
Instead, Rausch feels that the idea of remodeling is too expensive: it would cost 4,000 euros per square meter without gaining a single new square meter for the community. If the facility is at full capacity, the capacity limit would quickly be reached. “We also feel that the planned two square meters per child are little compared to the space gained per child with a new building solution.”
The Green Party group also saw it that way. In November, the municipal council decided to create a concept for the All-Day 2026 project, in which all municipal properties were to be considered as an option. “And now, seven months later, you are presenting a meeting proposal in which we are supposed to approve renovation work on the intact building for one million euros, without there being an educational concept,” Deputy Mayor Johanna Zapf and Claudia Köhler accused the administration.
The day-care center and the adult education center are also located in Kubiz. © Alexander Petek
In addition, it is “completely unclear what kind of care” is to be implemented. “The question of lunch has also only been provisionally resolved: the children are to eat in three shifts at fixed times at folding tables in the gym,” complained the Greens. In addition, the suggestion that the adult education center should move not only with its administration but completely pits children’s education against adult education.
Relief on the part of the Vhs
The discussion was heated and not always conducted in an appropriate tone. Two motions to postpone the decision on the resolution until July (Neo faction) or September (Greens) were rejected. The local council finally decided against the Kubiz solution by 14 votes to 13. This caused a sigh of relief, especially at the Vhs:
“After the local council’s decision was made clear, my phone was ringing off the hook and the lecturers were extremely relieved that their classrooms in the Kubiz would no longer be closed,” says Barbara Sporrer, head of the Unterhaching adult education center, to HALLO. This is especially true since Mayor Wolfgang Panzer (SPD) has agreed to a temporary use of the rooms in the Kubiz until the end of the next semester.
A decision on the implementation of all-day primary school care has therefore been postponed for the time being. But time is of the essence. For Panzer, the question of space is more important than the question of the concept. First the where, then the how.
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2024-07-05 12:36:11
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