Sangju City Receives 'Minister of the Interior and Safety Award' in 'Local Government Organization Management' Evaluation

Evaluation Results of 'Organizational Management' for 75 City-Level Basic Local Governments Nationwide

Sangju City Hall

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Jae-ho] Sangju City, Gyeongbuk Province (Mayor Kang Young-seok) announced that it was selected as an "Excellent Organization Operation Municipality at the City Level in 2020" evaluated by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and received a ministerial citation.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety annually evaluates the organizational operation efficiency of 226 basic local governments nationwide based on 16 indicators in the areas of organization and personnel.

The 16 indicators include whether there is excessive establishment of organizations, the appropriate ratio of staff and department-level organizations, soundness of standard labor costs, and stability of personnel composition. Based on this, excellent local governments are selected by city, county, and district units in the field of organizational analysis and diagnosis results. Sangju City received the highest evaluation among 75 city-level local governments.

Although Sangju City is legally allowed to establish and operate one bureau, it has not newly established one considering the appropriateness of the current main office’s organizational composition and labor cost reduction. It was highly evaluated for efficiently managing the organization by responding to continuously increasing administrative demands through team-level reorganization and adjustment of tasks and staff.

In particular, the organizational restructuring prepared from the second half of 2020 and implemented in January 2021 drew attention for strengthening functions in investment attraction and sports marketing fields without expanding department-level organizations, and for unifying the management department for Gyeongcheon Island and its surrounding small-scale facilities.

Mayor Kang Young-seok of Sangju City emphasized, "In the organizational restructuring implemented in January 2021, we focused on strengthening the functions of individual departments rather than expanding the organization, and we will achieve both responsiveness to administrative demands and efficiency in organizational operation."

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