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"Perspectives 2011" - Sustainability and Annual Report (pdf)

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Workforce <strong>and</strong> work environmentEnvironmental <strong>and</strong> climate protectionFinancial reviewSustainable developmentRegional growth partnershipsThe Communities Council: A forum fordialogueFor Flughafen München GmbH, an open <strong>and</strong> constructiveexchange with the airport’s local region is excep -tionally valuable. The Communities Council, formedin September 2005 to accompany the planning processfor the expansion of Munich Airport, plays an importantrole in this context by fostering productive dialogue<strong>and</strong> by providing the airport <strong>and</strong> its local communitieswith a forum for information sharing <strong>and</strong> communication.The Council is supplied with timely <strong>and</strong> currentinformation on the planning progress at its meetings;it also acts as a mouthpiece for the region, voicing localconcerns, offering recommendations <strong>and</strong> suggestions,<strong>and</strong> helping to achieve consensus on solutionsto problems. The Council has around 40 members,including people representing local towns <strong>and</strong> communities,administrative districts, the business community<strong>and</strong> labor unions, as well as employees fromDeutsche Lufthansa AG, Deutsche FlugsicherungGmbH <strong>and</strong> Flughafen München GmbH, who representthe aviation sector. The Council is chaired by EddaHuther, a former president of the Constitutional Courtof Bavaria.A regional fund for infrastructure <strong>and</strong>special projectsTogether with the Communities Council, FlughafenMünchen GmbH’s shareholders in 2008 elected toset up a regional fund to offset impacts caused bythe construction of the airport’s third runway. Under€100 million regional fund€50 millionfor otherpublic infrastructure€50 millionfor publicroadsFreisingdistrict€26.6 millionErdingdistrict€23.4 millioncurrent plans, the fund’s resources of €100 millionare to be allocated over a period of between 10 <strong>and</strong>15 years, primarily to local infrastructure projects.Payouts from the fund are, however, contingent uponthe start of the runway construction work. Fifty millioneuros are to go to local highway constructionprojects; the other half has been earmarked for localcommunity infrastructure development, compensationin instances of hardship, <strong>and</strong> special projects.Support for transport infrastructureprojectsAt present, money from the fund has been assignedto two community road construction projects, in theErding district (€23.4 million) <strong>and</strong> the Freising district(€26.6 million). The funding will go toward Erding’snorth bypass (capped at €13.5 million) <strong>and</strong> to Freising’swest expressway. Funding has now also been approvedfor the construction of the Moosburg west ex -pressway (up to a maximum of €4 million) <strong>and</strong> a roadbetween Berglern <strong>and</strong> Eitting in the Erding district. Cur -rently, €5 million apiece have been made available tothe Erding north bypass <strong>and</strong> the Freising west ex press -way projects; all other funding is on hold until workhas begun on building the third runway. To date, Erdingdistrict council has drawn down around €500,000in funding to cover planning work for the town’s northbypass. Freising, too, has drawn down €500,000, forthe purchase of l<strong>and</strong> in preparation for the constructionof the town’s west expressway.A bridge between the airport <strong>and</strong> itsneighborsThe goal of our regional liaison office is to establishthe airport as an integral part of its home region <strong>and</strong>as a “regular” neighbor. To accomplish this, our regionalliaison officer <strong>and</strong> his team have been engagedsince 2002 in efforts to network systematically withthe surrounding region at various levels. The regionalliaison office’s remit is to operate as a coordinationcenter or bridge between the airport <strong>and</strong> the region.It carries Flughafen München GmbH’s messages outinto the region <strong>and</strong> feeds neighbors’ concerns back tothe airport.) www.munich-airport.com/regional-fund69

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