English Translation

- l - debt amortization. This means a conscious departure from the practice for normal times that available residual funds are used to partially deny the proper needs of the following accounting years, it is necessary because the residual funds have only arisen from the integration of the communities into the war economy and it is not only about the correct opinion on the conditions created by the war. The view that the reduction in operating expenses should lead to a reduction in the increases and levies must therefore be rejected. I refer here to the events in the rest of the Reich. We have been there for years with constant levies constantly increasing ;& revenue, while the operating expenses have gone down enormously. The amounts thus released are used everywhere for extraordinary school repayment and reserve formation. Only recently, in a decree of the Reich Finance Minister and the Minister of the Interior, the need for increased reserve formation by the municipalities was pointed out. In the city of Prague, where the financial ceiling, which is scarce in relation to the respective tasks, did not allow for a significant reserve formation in the past, the school burden therefore increased considerably year after year,