Finance

The budget for 2025 and 2026 was submitted on 11 December 2024. This was the first time that a double budget was presented to the Bocholt City Council.

Germany and the city of Bocholt are currently in a tense financial situation, characterised by a subdued overall economy, an increased savings rate among private households and structural challenges.
Like many other municipal budgets, the city of Bocholt's budget is under pressure as growing social expenditure and energy costs meet stagnating or declining income. At the same time, there is the challenge of investing in future areas such as digitalisation, climate protection, education and infrastructure in order to ensure long-term attractiveness, competitiveness and social stability, despite tight budgets.

The planned annual results amount to -34,549,000 euros for 2025 and -35,805,900 euros for 2026. The largest deviation from the planning for 2024 (-17,511,751 euros incl. addendum) is mainly due to

On 12 June 2024, a supplementary statute with a supplementary budget was submitted to the municipal council. The supplementary budget was adopted on 3 July 2024.

The reason for the supplementary statutes is the decision in principle to support 1. FC Bocholt 1900 e.V. with the planned conversion and expansion of the stadium at Hünting to make it suitable for the third division (€2.7 million). All other changes to the budget can be found in the document below.

On 13 December 2023, the budget speeches of the political groups and groups were held at the meeting of the city councils and the budget was adopted with some changes to the draft.