Jeongeup-si Selects Winners of the 'Citizen Participation Policy Proposal Festival'

Jeongeup City in Jeonbuk announced on the 26th that it has selected the winning entries of the first half of the year Citizen Participation Policy Proposal Festival, which was promoted to realize city administration that communicates with citizens and actively collects fresh and creative ideas.

Jeongeup City selected the award-winning works of the first half of the year Citizen Participation Policy Proposal Festival on the 26th.
[Photo by Jeongeup City]

Earlier, from February 22 to March 23, the city held a contest for creative and feasible policy proposals targeting Jeongeup citizens and public officials.

In this contest, the fields were divided into special topics such as the Hometown Love Fund Project, Local Extinction Response Fund Project to counter population decline, and policy proposals for making Jeongeup a city where young people want to stay, as well as general topics on policies that need improvement or implementation around us. A total of 432 diverse proposals were received.

The city comprehensively evaluated creativity, feasibility, economy, practicality, and effectiveness to select 11 final winning works (5 from citizens, 6 from public officials) and held an award ceremony for the winners on the day.

The Excellence Award for special topics went to ▲Operation of the Youth Participation Point System (Kim In-gyeong, public official), and the Excellence Award for general topics was awarded to ▲Utilization of New Media for Revitalizing the Local Economy and Jeongeup Tourism (Kim Gyeong-cheol).

The proposal for ‘Operation of the Youth Participation Point System’ was evaluated as an idea that can contribute to the settlement of young people returning to their hometown and the influx of young population.

The proposal for ‘Utilization of New Media for Revitalizing the Local Economy and Jeongeup Tourism’ was evaluated as a creative idea that can contribute to revitalizing the local economy by promoting local commercial districts in line with the trends of the new media era.

Other winning works in the general topic citizen category included ▲Changing the playground facilities in Jeongchon Gayo Special Zone to traditional play facilities (Moon Seon-a), ▲Installation of LED floor and voice guidance traffic lights at the old market intersection (Park Dong-hyeok), ▲Creation of an ecological stream by restoring the old ditch of Naejang Sang-dong Small Park and Geumbungcheon (Ha Seung-chan), and ▲Creation of autumn foliage image sculptures throughout the city (Kim Seon-hee).

In the public official category, the final selections were ▲Introduction of electronic department staff status boards (Kim Tae-han), ▲Efficient meeting and event management using smart nameplates (Park Tae-gyun), ▲Introduction of KakaoTalk chatbot service at Jeongeup City Library (Park Su-bin), ▲Implementation of smart outgoing call notification service for Jeongeup City administrative phones (Jo Hyun-geun), and ▲Addition of neighborhood and block display and city homepage address search function in the spatial information system search (Jeong Gi-ryong).

Mayor Lee Hak-su said, “We will continue to discover diverse and fresh ideas through policy proposal contests where citizens participate and communicate, and strive to provide administrative services that citizens can feel.”

Jeongeup = Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Jae-gil baekok@asiae.co.kr

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