Overview
- Municipal and county councils this week finished their constituting sessions and installed mayors, chairs and committee rosters that will govern the 2026–2031 term.
- Ralf Kruse, an independent, won the Meißner mayoralty and will take office on 1 May 2027 after receiving 1,043 votes in the election.
- Immenhausen’s council voted unanimously to cut sewage (entwässerungs) fees to €2.92 per cubic meter from 2027 after officials found a roughly €193,000 cost overcoverage.
- Barnstorf’s Samtgemeinderat kept the finance committee non‑public while transferring responsibility for economic development to the public Bauausschuss, a compromise that keeps sensitive budget work closed to the public.
- At Uslar’s constituting meeting Mathias Figge’s late switch from the SPD to the Wählergemeinschaft Zukunft Uslar made that group the largest faction, changing coalition math and committee bargaining for the new term.