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Press releases

Local politics in the week from February 17 to 23

Five meetings will take place in the next municipal policy week. There has been a change of venue for the Housing and Property Committee.

Tuesday, February 18,
The Personnel and Administration Committee will meet at 5 p.m. in the Council Chamber at Aachen Town Hall. The two public items on the agenda are the staffing plan and the development of personnel and pension expenses this year, as well as the 2025 budget discussions.

The Housing and Property Committee meets at 5 p.m., this time in the meeting room of Haus Löwenstein. The only item on the agenda in the public part of the meeting is the 2025 budget consultation, including medium-term planning up to 2028.

Wednesday, February 19
The Aachen-Mitte district council also meets in the council meeting room at 5 pm. Discussions will include a citizens' petition to rename part of Großkölnstraße as "Hiroshimaplatz", a redesign of the Vaalser Straße / Amsterdamer Ring / Halifaxstraße traffic junction and a status report on updating the "Outdoor catering" guideline.

In the meeting room of Haus Löwenstein from 5 p.m., the Committee for Employment, Economic and Regional Development discusses, among other things, the establishment of an apprentice factory for Aachen, the "Future through Innovation" (zdi) project and the small-scale population forecast as well as the city district profiles with data from 2023 from the statistics office.

Thursday, February 20
Starting at 5 p.m. in the council meeting room, the mobility committee will focus, for example, on the current status of the "KLIMACS" funding project, the updating of the "Outdoor catering" guideline and the demolition and new construction of the Deutsche Bahn bridge on Horbacher Straße.

A meeting of the Eurogress operating committee in conference room 3 of the Eurogress at 6.30 p.m. will bring the municipal policy week to a close. The only public item on the agenda there: the business plan for Eurogress 2025.

Further information
Interested residents are generally 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/.


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