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Eleven meetings are scheduled in the municipal political calendar for the first week of December. On Tuesday, four committees will meet in parallel - including the Housing and Property Committee.

Tuesday, December 3,
The Housing and Property Committee will meet at 5 p.m. in meeting room 170 of the administration building at Marschiertor. There are only two items on the agenda for the public part of the meeting: cooperative instruments in housing construction and an exchange of views on the housing market report.

The operating committee of the Adult Education Center (VHS) meets at 5 pm in the VHS Aachen forum in Peterstraße. Among other things, a new program area manager for health, creativity and careers will be introduced, the VHS event program 1/2025 will be presented and a status report on the development of the "Paths against Forgetting" memorial will be discussed.

The meeting of the Committee for the Environment and Climate Protection will also start at 5 p.m. in the Campus meeting room (SG113) in the administration building on Maria-Theresia-Allee. Topics include the addendum to the fee statutes for the drainage statutes of the City of Aachen, the addendum to the statutes on the emptying of sewage treatment plants and an environmental report on the "Im Ginster / Expansion of the industrial estate" development plan.

The next meeting at 5 p.m. is that of the Finance Committee. In the council meeting room at Aachen Town Hall, the opportunities and risks of the budget, the addendum to the assessment rate statutes as part of the property tax reform and the municipal utility fee statutes will be discussed.

The public meeting of the Citizens' Forum begins at 6.30 pm in the ballroom of the Altes Kurhaus. In addition to a question and answer session for residents, the agenda includes a presentation of the Citizens' Report 2024, a report on the recommendations from the Citizens' Council and a status report on the implementation of the recommendations from the Citizens' Council 2023.

Wednesday, December 4,
The main committee will meet in the town hall meeting room from 4 pm. The topics in the public part of the meeting are a status report on the council motion "World Equestrian Games 2026 in the city", the events at Katschhof and the market in 2025 and a motion on the agenda to better protect street trees from damage caused by parked cars.

The Aachen City Council will then also meet in the meeting room of the town hall. Three of the topics: the presentation of the draft budget for 2025, the decision on Sunday opening and an organizational concept for the city library as well as the election of the electoral committee for the municipal elections on 14 September 2025.

Thursday, 5 December
The municipal policy Thursday will be opened by a public meeting of the Seniors' Council at 10 am. In seminar room 2 in the Nadelfabrik on Reichsweg, the meeting will include a review and update on the activities of individual districts (best practice examples), information on the board's decision on district funds and reports on senior-related topics from the committees.

The meeting of the Committee for Social Affairs, Integration and Demography will take place at 5 p.m. in the council meeting room. Topics to be discussed include a progress report on "One year of work by the Kaiserplatz 'Kümmer*in'", the "Wohnen jetzt! HOUSING FIRST AACHEN" concept by WABe e. V. and Caritasverband as well as daytime structuring services for homeless people and those at risk of homelessness (continuation of the WABe project in 2025).

The planning committee will also meet at 5 p.m. in room 207 of the administration building on Mozartstraße. Among other things, the new digital list of monuments will be presented there, the City of Aachen's statement on the revision of the regional plan will be presented and the further planning of an OGS extension including a canteen for the Montessori community elementary school in Mataréstraße will be discussed.

The meeting of the Committee for Science and Digitization will conclude the pre-Christmas municipal policy week from 5 p.m. in the Campus meeting room (SG113) in the administration building on Maria-Theresia-Allee. The agenda includes, for example, a collaboration between Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University as part of the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, the implementation status of the Online Access Act at Aachen City Council and the presentation of the AachenPanel - an instrument for representative digital citizen participation.

Further information
In principle, interested residents are admitted to the public consultations. The City of Aachen has been operating a new council information system since August 2024. All dates, agenda items and public meeting documents can now be found in the City of Aachen's council information system at https://ratsinfo.aachen.de/public/.