Inquiry about parental contributions - city parent council leverkusen - from parents for parents

Dear Lord Mayor Richrath,

According to the city administration, the parents’ contributions in Leverkusen only finance a small proportion of the costs for day care (14%, as of April 2017). While in different Countries and municipalities, which have already been abolished contributions that do not cover costs, Leverkusen levies parental contributions that are difficult for some parents to finance.

In this context, the City Parents Council has the following questions:

To what extent did the income from parental contributions change in the end of day care center year 2016/2017 compared to day care center year 2015/2016? Please indicate the amount by which the income has increased or decreased.
What is the real cost for you care place in a daycare center for a) a child under the age of 2, b) a child under the age of 2 and c) a child over the age of 3? Please name the amounts per age with which the Leverkusen administration calculates annually and please state the total costs incurred in the household 2017 and 2018 were adopted for day care for children.
What is the actual cost of daycare for children in Leverkusen? Please show in a calculation what amounts the costs are made up of.
What was the percentage of parental contributions at the respective salary levels in 2017? (Please break down per income level, as in e.g. Council No. 4, 2017 Annexes 1-3)
In Leverkusen, all positive income minus advertising costs is used to calculate the parents’ contributions. Is the different economic performance of the individual debtors adequately determined, if neither maintenance payments, debt obligations, living costs or the like? be taken into account?
What possibilities does the administration see for creating a falling fee structure as the number of children increases, as is already practiced in other municipalities?
According to the "Statute on the Collection of Parental Contributions", parents pay their parental contributions in blocks of e.g. 31 to under 36 hours or 41 to under 45 hours. For these blocks of hours, the same parents’ fees are charged for a 35- or 45-hour place in a daycare center. As a result, parents in day care pay as much for 41 hours of childcare as they do for 45 hours in daycare. How does the city administration justify the higher parental contribution in day care?
How does the city administration justify that the income is only staggered up to a gross annual income of EUR 78,000? According to the breakdown of childcare contracts by type of childcare and annual income from December 2016, 51.6% of the parents’ contributions are at the highest income level. With what justification will higher incomes not be burdened according to their higher economic strength, for example by staggering the income table relevant for parental contributions as in the city of Dortmund up to an income of € 150,000? In Dortmund, the contribution, which is made in Leverkusen with an income of € 78,000, is only due for an income of over € 100,000.
The city administration sees possibilities to relieve the previously lower and middle groups of the calculation table, for example by corresponding burdens on those incomes that are clearly above the previous upper limit?
As of December 2016, only 1.1% of parents’ contributions in salary levels 2 to 25,000 € were received. How does the city council judge our proposal to extend the freedom to contribute to this income group?
Parents whose child was born after November 1st usually pay the very high U3 parental contribution for two years. Other municipalities have already abolished the deadline and the parents pay the Ü3 parental allowance there from their 3rd birthday. How does the administration judge the abolition of the key date regulation in Leverkusen?