Gwangyang City Council Announces Position on Gathering Opinions for 4th Emergency Disaster Living Expenses

Gathering Diverse Opinions for Citizen Unity and Happiness

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seon-sik] The Gwangyang City Council in Jeollanam-do (Chairman Seo Young-bae) announced on the 14th that it is making every effort to devise a payment method for the '4th Emergency Disaster Living Expenses Payment,' a pledge of Mayor Jeong In-hwa of Gwangyang City, that satisfies all citizens.

The Gwangyang City Council received the initial report on the related plan from the executive branch during a full council meeting on the 8th.

Since then, considering that this is a significant issue with various opinions from citizens being received by the council, they are carefully reviewing the budget while conducting a broad opinion-gathering and deliberation process.

In particular, as the government supplementary budget has increased grants, creating the capacity to provide emergency disaster living expenses, the council is considering the city's financial situation and striving to prepare a compromise plan based on 'universal payment' that all 150,000 citizens, who are enduring difficult and challenging daily lives due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, can be satisfied with.

To this end, the council's chairpersons are actively coordinating opinions by arranging meetings for consultation with the executive branch.

Chairman Seo Young-bae stated, "The payment method for the 4th emergency disaster living expenses should be designed to prevent discord caused by payment amount disparities and to satisfy the majority of citizens," adding, "As the city council exists for citizen unity and everyone's happiness, we will do our best to ensure that the promotion of the 4th emergency disaster living expenses payment does not become a source of conflict among citizens."

Chairman Seo also added, "I would like to express my deep gratitude and consolation to all citizens who are enduring pain with mature civic consciousness despite the difficult situation caused by the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic."

Meanwhile, the Gwangyang City Council plans to hold the 311th extraordinary session from the 20th to the 29th to deliberate and resolve matters including the 4th emergency disaster living expenses payment.

Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seon-sik hss79@asiae.co.kr

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