Songpa-gu Announces 3 Billion KRW Resident Participation Budget Contest

2024 Songpa-gu Resident Participation Project Budget of 3 Sectors Totaling 3 Billion KRW Made by Residents' Hands

Applications Accepted Throughout May via Songpa-gu Website, Email, Visit, or Mail

Songpa-gu (Mayor Seo Gang-seok) announced that it is promoting a call for proposals for the ‘Resident Participatory Budget Proposal Project’ until the 31st of this month to guarantee residents’ opportunities to participate in the budgeting process and to enhance transparency and publicness in financial management.

The 2023 Songpa-gu Resident Participatory Budget (reflected in the 2024 fiscal year) will operate with a total scale of 3 billion KRW. The budgeting process is divided into three sectors: 1. General projects with 1.5 billion KRW, 2. Major protection target projects requiring social consideration with 1 billion KRW, and 3. Dong-area projects with 500 million KRW.

Proposals discovered by residents in each sector can be submitted without limitation on the number of projects within the scope of 200 million KRW for general and major protection target projects, and 50 million KRW for Dong-area projects. All projects must be small-scale, single-year projects to be eligible for application.

Last year’s resident participatory budget projects included creative proposals closely related to residents’ lives such as ‘New installation and performance improvement of security CCTV,’ ‘Replacement and maintenance of exercise facilities and surrounding facilities at Samhaksa Children’s Park,’ and ‘Improvement of floors in lecture rooms and parking lots at Songpa-gu Sports and Culture Center,’ which received high resident approval.

Seogangseok, Mayor of Songpa District

The proposed projects will be reviewed for appropriateness through Dong-area meetings and on-site inspections. Finally, projects to be reflected will be selected through online voting and deliberation by the Resident Participatory Budget Committee, and the final projects to be included in the Songpa-gu main budget will be confirmed through review and resolution by the district council in December.

Anyone residing or working in Songpa-gu can participate in the proposal project. Applications are accepted until May 31 via the Songpa-gu Office website, or by visit, mail, or email.

For more details, please inquire through the Songpa-gu Office website or the Songpa-gu Planning and Budget Division.

Seo Gang-seok, Mayor of Songpa-gu, stated, “The Resident Participatory Budget System is a meaningful project where residents directly participate in the budgeting process to discover and solve local issues. We look forward to many creative proposals from residents.” He added, “We will spare no support to ensure that the opinions of Songpa-gu residents are reflected in the budget appropriately and timely.”

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