"Get Approval When Outsourcing Public Institution Tasks" ... Daegu City Councilor Yoon Young-ae Proposes Ordinance

Daegu City, 365.9 Billion KRW Consigned This Year

Uncontrolled Confusion Intensifies, Oversight Needed

Yoon Young-ae, a member of the Daegu Metropolitan Council (People Power Party, Nam-gu 2), who is the chief proposer, had the "Ordinance on Entrustment and Delegation to Public Institutions in Daegu" pass the review of the Planning and Administration Committee, the relevant standing committee, on the 20th.

This ordinance includes matters such as the appropriateness of the entrusted or delegated tasks among Daegu city affairs, the scope of tasks, processing standards and methods, and matters related to the consent of the city council.

Until now, Daegu city lacked proper standards regarding entrusted and delegated tasks to public institutions, leading to some indiscriminate entrustment and delegation of tasks, and concerns were raised that these were outside the oversight scope of the city council. Therefore, through this newly established ordinance, the city plans to strengthen the overall procedures for handling entrusted and delegated tasks to public institutions.

Daegu City Council member Yoon Young-ae.

Looking at the main contents of the ordinance, the applicable tasks are continuous projects with an annual budget of 300 million KRW or more that Daegu city entrusts or delegates, and the entrusted or delegated public institutions include about 20 public institutions such as public corporations, public enterprises, and investment and contribution institutions in the Daegu area according to the "Act on the Management of Public Institutions." This year, Daegu city entrusted or delegated 196 projects with a budget of 365.9 billion KRW to these public institutions.

Once the ordinance is implemented, before entrusting or delegating tasks to public institutions, Daegu city must carry out preliminary procedures such as reviewing the appropriateness of the tasks and obtaining city council consent through the Entrustment and Delegation Review Committee. Additionally, the management of entrusted tasks will be comprehensively strengthened, including the establishment of task processing guidelines and supervision and audits of entrusted institutions.

The city council consent, which must be obtained before entrusting or delegating to public institutions, will apply from the first entrustment or delegation task occurring after the ordinance’s effective date of January 1, 2024. For continuous entrustment or delegation, consent must be renewed every six years to further strengthen city council oversight. However, projects designated as pre-competitive projects with participating institutions or fully funded national union projects may be exempted from the city council consent procedure.

Yoon Young-ae, the council member who proposed the ordinance, said, "Until now, most entrustments and delegations to public institutions were decided by Daegu city regarding the target and institution, and the Daegu city council could only review them at the budget review stage, so the council’s monitoring of whether the tasks were appropriate did not function smoothly. I hope that the implementation of this newly established ordinance will serve as an opportunity to enhance not only the administrative efficiency but also the accountability of Daegu city’s public institution entrustment and delegation tasks."

This ordinance is scheduled to be finally approved at the Daegu Metropolitan Council plenary session on the 30th.

A Daegu Metropolitan Council official stated, "Among the 17 metropolitan councils nationwide, six, including Busan, Jeonbuk, and Chungbuk, have enacted ordinances requiring metropolitan council approval when entrusting tasks to public institutions."

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