Eunpyeong-gu Holds Online Residents' Assembly... Residents Decide on 2.4 Billion Won Policy Tasks

Deliberation and Public Debate Unyielding Despite COVID-19, Online Public Forum with Over 600 Participants Held for 4 Days from June 15... 2021 Policy Tasks to be Finalized at Residents' Assembly on June 20 After Resident Voting from May 18 to June 19

[Asia Economy Reporter Jong-il Park] Eunpyeong-gu (Mayor Kim Mi-kyung) will hold an online residents' general meeting at 10 a.m. on the 20th.

In the past, the residents' general meeting was held with about 700 residents at the Eunpyeong Multipurpose Gymnasium, but this year it will be held online to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

Roundtable discussions will also be conducted online. For about 600 residents who applied as the 'Online Deliberation Group,' more than 40 online public forums will be opened over four days from the 15th to discuss the priority of policy tasks.

To participate in the online residents' general meeting, access the Eunpyeong-gu Office YouTube channel or SimpleFlow at 10 a.m. on the 20th.

Eunpyeong-gu collected 1,200 diverse residents' opinions through surveys, residents' public forums, and proposal contests, classified and merged them into 30 policy tasks, and after departmental review and evaluation by the Participatory Budget Committee and the Cooperation Council, 14 policy tasks were presented as subjects for residents' voting.

The preliminary residents' vote is ongoing for about a month from May 18 to June 19, and the final selection of the 2.4 billion KRW scale 2021 participatory budget and cooperation tasks will be made by combining the residents' vote results, online deliberation group votes, and real-time votes on the day of the residents' general meeting.

The finally selected policy tasks will be concretized into policy projects by the public-private TF from June to August and reflected and promoted in next year's budget.

Kim Mi-kyung, Mayor of Eunpyeong-gu, stated, "This year marks the 10th anniversary of the participatory budget. Although it is a difficult situation due to COVID-19, I hope many residents will participate to overcome it together with the power of resident participation accumulated over the past 10 years," and added, "Let us create a resident participation city where residents themselves propose and select policies to solve local problems and open a new tomorrow for Eunpyeong together with the residents."

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