Daejeon Resident Participation Budget Project, 'Citizen Online Voting' Decided

Provided by Daejeon City

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon’s resident participatory budgeting projects will be decided through online voting by citizens.

The city announced on the 7th that it will conduct an online citizen vote from the 11th to the 31st to finalize the selection of next year’s resident participatory budgeting citizen proposal projects.

Earlier, the city received over 1,500 resident participatory budgeting project proposals in April. The proposals were divided into ‘administrative participation-type’ projects (1,003 cases) aimed at solving urban problems and ‘regional participation-type’ projects (478 cases) aimed at alleviating inconveniences for local residents.

The administrative participation-type project proposals selected for the citizen online vote number 54, and the regional participation-type project proposals number 42. These proposals were reviewed for feasibility by the responsible departments in each project field and then decided through evaluations by seven subcommittees (administrative participation-type) and the District Resident Participatory Budget Committee (regional participation-type).

Any Daejeon citizen can participate in the citizen vote without qualification requirements through the Daejeon Resident Participatory Budget website. Citizens participating in the vote can cast votes for five projects in the administrative participation category and three projects (one per autonomous district) in the regional participation category.

After the voting closes, the city plans to finalize next year’s resident participatory budgeting projects at the citizen online general meeting held on the 15th of next month. The final decision will be made by combining 50% of the citizen online voting results and 50% of the scores from the citizen voting panel participating in the general meeting.

Next year’s resident participatory budget is 15 billion KRW, an increase of 5 billion KRW from this year. Of this, 7 billion KRW is allocated to administrative participation-type projects, and 2 billion KRW to regional participation-type projects.

Additionally, the budget will be invested in ‘regional governance-type’ projects (5 billion KRW), where local governments and private sectors cooperate to solve regional issues, and ‘dong participation-type’ projects (1 billion KRW), where residents themselves address inconveniences in local villages.

Heo Tae-jeong, Mayor of Daejeon, said, “The resident participatory budgeting system goes beyond simple citizen participation and communication to empower citizens, making collaborative partnership with residents throughout the entire process important,” and added, “We ask for active citizen participation in the online voting.”

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