Daejeon City, Next Year's Resident Participation Budget Projects 'By Citizens' Hands'

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon City announced on the 10th that it will finalize next year's resident participatory budget projects through an online citizen vote from the 11th to the 31st of this month.

The resident participatory budget totals 20 billion KRW. Earlier, during the citizen contest held in May, a total of 2,189 resident participatory budget project proposals were submitted.

The city had the relevant departments review the feasibility of the submitted proposals (projects), then selected 1,144 city administration participation projects to be reviewed by the seven subcommittees of the city resident participatory budget committee. Through this process, a total of 60 proposals (8.3 billion KRW) were selected.

Additionally, 1,010 district administration participation projects were reviewed by each district's participatory budget committee, resulting in 120 projects (6.7 billion KRW) being selected.

The city put the city and district administration participation projects that passed each committee's review up for online citizen voting.

The citizen vote will be conducted through the city resident participatory budget website, and any Daejeon citizen can participate. Participants will vote (select) for 5 city administration participation projects and 3 district administration participation projects.

The resident participatory budget participation projects will be finally decided by combining the citizen online vote (50%) and the scores from the citizen voting group participating in the citizen general assembly held on the 16th of next month (50%).

Heo Tae-jeong, Mayor of Daejeon, said, "I take pride in that the resident participatory budget system has established itself as a pillar of citizen participation in city administration," and added, "We ask for the active participation of Daejeon citizens in the resident participatory budget online vote."

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