If the 6 electoral areas are retained, there is no legal pressure to change the council electoral areas for the Kommunalwahl in 2026. The number of 6 electoral areas should therefore be retained for the election of the City of Salzgitter Council. There is also no need to change the layout of the individual electoral areas.

The city parliament was informed by Lord Mayor Frank Klingebiel that the state of Lower Saxony has extended the limit on the allocation of refugees.

Klingebiel: "The previous allocation restrictions and the immigration ban in place since October 2017 have helped us to stabilize the systems, but a longer period of respite is needed to ensure social peace and not overburden the systems." This was the tenor of the letter in which the Lord Mayor once again addressed Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Daniela Behrens. The day before yesterday, there was good news: the Minister of the Interior shares this assessment and has limited the allocation of refugees to Salzgitter to a maximum of 200 people for another year until September 30, 2026.

The meeting ended with motions and questions from the political groups. The current and detailed agenda can be viewed in the Council information system.