Several contracts were awarded at the municipal council meeting of May 19.

An expert opinion, detailing the implementation or creation of a recultivation layer as part of the recultivation of the "Hochholz" landfill site, will have to be obtained. ICP in Karlsruhe was commissioned to do this work (just under € 50,000).

The corona crisis is forcing councils to deal with some tasks. One of them, the importance of which will only become apparent in the future, is the collapse in tax revenues. At the recent meeting of the local council, treasurer Lucas Hansen explained the current situation as well as its possible consequences.

Maintaining the town's liquidity is now the top priority. As a result, the cash credit in the 2020 budget was increased to € 8 million as a precautionary measure.

On May 19, the municipal council and the forest administration decided on the forest management guidelines for the next ten years.

Karl-Heinz Stierle, responsible for forest management and hunting at the administrative district office, explained at the meeting that a lot of damaged wood had recurred. Stierle explained the methods and objectives of the forest management to the municipal council.

Broadband expansion: Half of the investment will come from Berlin / Fuchtel: Another component for fast internet in our spa town

Bad Liebenzell. "Bad Liebenzell can be pleased about a considerable grant from the federal government for the expanding our broadband coverage," said parliamentary state secretary Hans-Joachim Fuchtel. As the directly elected member of the Bundestag for the Calw/Freudenstadt constituency informs the Mayor Dietmar Fischer, the grant amounts exactly to EUR 4,609,464.

The multilingual website has been up and running since the end of April this year.

Interested visitors to the site can now find out all about the town and its parts, its history as well as read about town twinning in English, French and Portuguese in addition to the original German text.

Tourist attractions such as the thermal bath or SOPHI PARK are now described in several languages.

This service is not only provided for foreigners who live here but also for the citizens and friends from our twin towns of Villaines la Juhel and Lourinha. The "News" from the town hall will soon be available in four languages, so as to reach out to a larger audience.