Namwon-si Promotes Policy Sunset System... Maximizing Administrative Efficiency

[Namwon=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Jeong Young-gwon] Namwon City, Jeonbuk Province, announced on the 26th that it will promote the policy sunset system to maximize administrative efficiency.

Mayor Choi Kyung-sik ordered a strong push for the policy sunset system as a way to comprehensively review policies, tasks, and overlapping projects whose efficiency has declined due to changes in the administrative environment, eliminate factors wasting administrative power, and improve the efficiency of city administration.

The city plans to conduct a full survey of all projects by department, and policies that are judged to have already achieved their purpose, policies that need to be discontinued due to being factors of administrative power and budget waste, and policies whose functions have declined or effectiveness has decreased due to changes in the administrative environment are subject to sunset.

Policies subject to sunset will be decided through deliberation by the Policy Sunset Deliberation Committee, and the targeted policies will be immediately abolished.

For policies decided to be sunset, related ordinance amendments and budget cuts will be implemented, and the saved budget will be invested in projects with high administrative demand and those that can increase citizens' benefits to enhance the efficiency of financial management.

Mayor Choi Kyung-sik said, “Through bold policy sunsets, we will actively and innovatively respond to the rapidly changing administrative environment and implement administration that shows citizens a higher level of achievement.”

Namwon=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Jeong Young-gwon baekok@asiae.co.kr

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