Gwangju City Council Opens the 299th Extraordinary Session

Appointment of Budget Settlement and Ethics Special Committee Members and Handling of 33 General Agenda Items

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] The Gwangju Metropolitan Council (Chairman Kim Yongjip) has opened the 299th extraordinary session and is proceeding with the appointment of members to the Budget and Accounts and Ethics Special Committees as well as handling general agenda items.

The Gwangju City Council announced that on the 1st at 10 a.m., it opened the 299th extraordinary session in the council plenary hall and entered a seven-day session.

During this extraordinary session, nine members each will be appointed to the Budget and Accounts Special Committee and the Ethics Special Committee, and a total of 33 agenda items will be handled, including 26 ordinances, 2 consent items, 2 opinion hearings, and 3 reports.

The agenda items to be reviewed by each standing committee include: ▲Administrative and Autonomy Committee’s 4 items such as the ‘Partial Amendment Ordinance on the Operation of the Reward System for Reporting Illegal Acts Related to Fire Facilities in Gwangju Metropolitan City’ ▲Environment and Welfare Committee’s 5 items including the ‘Complete Amendment Ordinance on Support for Adoptive Families in Gwangju Metropolitan City’ ▲Industry and Construction Committee’s 12 items including the ‘Partial Amendment Ordinance on Building in Gwangju Metropolitan City’ ▲Education and Culture Committee’s 5 items including the ‘Ordinance on Promotion of School Sex Education by Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education’.

Additionally, 2 consent items such as the ‘2021 4th Extraordinary Shared Property Management Plan’ and 2 opinion hearings including the ‘Basic Plan (Draft) for Remodeling of Apartment Complexes in Gwangju Metropolitan City’ will be reviewed. Three reports, including the ‘Report on Private Consignment of Gwangju Metropolitan Dementia Center,’ will also be processed.

On this day, five-minute free speeches were delivered on the following topics: Assemblyman Kim Ikju’s ‘Mayor Lee Yongseop Must Stop the Pyungdong Industrial Complex Waste Incineration Plant,’ Assemblyman Kim Hakshil’s ‘Status and Promotion of Priority Purchase of Products Made by Severely Disabled Persons,’ Assemblyman Hwang Hyuntaek’s ‘The ‘Hakdong Disaster’ Must Become an Opportunity for Preventing Safety Accidents,’ Assemblywoman Jang Yeonju’s ‘Gwangju Must Take Responsibility for Preventing Recurrence of the Hakdong Collapse Accident and for a Safe City,’ and Assemblywoman Choi Mijeong’s ‘Urging the Establishment of Activation Measures for Gwangju Public Bicycle ‘Tarangkke’.’

Chairman Kim Yongjip stated, “This extraordinary session, marking the 30th anniversary of the council’s establishment and the start of the second year of the 8th council’s latter term, will be a more rewarding session than ever for citizen happiness and the development of Gwangju, and we will do our best to achieve this.”

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