Im Miran, Gwangju City Council Member, Receives 'Best Award' in Environmental Category at Grassroots Legislative Awards

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Im Miran, a member of the Gwangju Metropolitan Council, received the 2021 Grassroots Legislative Award for Excellence in the Environment category.

According to the Gwangju City Council on the 12th, the nonprofit organization Local Autonomy Power Plant (Chairman Kim Seungae) selected the recipients of the 2021 National Local Council Members Grassroots Legislative Award and held an award ceremony on the 8th.

The 2021 National Local Council Members Grassroots Legislative Award recognized outstanding legislative activities of local council members nationwide in five categories: cooperation governance, welfare, environment, administrative innovation, and excellent legislation.

After a month-long call for submissions targeting 248 local council members from local councils nationwide, the submitted materials and additional investigations were reviewed by experts including political science and diplomacy professors to select the awardees.

Councilor Im was highly evaluated for preventing the construction of the municipal arboretum through Suchuncheon Stream, which was losing its river functions, blocked by sediment and polluted, and promoting the creation of an eco-friendly ecological stream during her legislative activities such as city administration inquiries.

Councilor Im said, “In the era of carbon neutrality, restoring and expanding green spaces and the ecological environment of streams, which are carbon sinks, is a crucial matter directly connected to citizens’ lives. I will strive further to develop policies and establish budgets for creating ecological environments where citizens can enjoy rest and leisure.”

Kim Seungae, chairman of the Local Autonomy Power Plant, stated, “We expect that exemplary legislative activities by local council members excelling in various fields will be widely disseminated, contributing to the development of local autonomy, forming positive public opinion for democratic citizens, and selecting grassroots democracy leaders, thereby enhancing the pride and status of local council members. In the era of decentralized autonomy, we will continue to hold contests for outstanding legislative activities to share, spread, and expand excellent cases of legislative activities in basic and metropolitan local councils.”

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