Naju City Launches 'Citizen Rights Committee'... 25 Members Appointed

Naju City in Jeollanam-do held the launch ceremony and commissioner appointment ceremony for the "Citizen Rights Committee," a promise made to citizens during the 8th elected administration, at the city hall's large conference room the previous day, officially commencing its activities.

According to the city on the 12th, the Citizen Rights Committee plays a role in proposing practical solutions and policies to the administration through discussion, review, and resolution processes by submitting multiple complex civil complaints and difficulties as agenda items.

The city held the inauguration ceremony of the 'Citizens' Rights Committee' on the 11th and is beginning full-scale activities.
[Photo by Naju City]

The committee also holds authority and functions such as reviewing and coordinating projects subject to conflict management, recommending city administration, and forming special committees for high-quality policy proposals to protect citizen rights.

Anyone can submit agenda proposals by accessing the city hall website in the order of Participatory Civil Complaints - Citizen Participation - Citizen Rights Committee.

If the proposal meets the requirement of agreement (sympathy) from more than 100 people within 30 days, it is formally submitted as an agenda to the relevant subcommittee for review, resolution, and policy proposal procedures.

The committee operates with two subcommittees: "Administrative Welfare" and "Economic Environment."

At the launch ceremony, the city appointed 19 members as commissioners, including city council members Park Seong-eun and Kim Gang-jeong, experts in welfare, agriculture, urban environment, construction, labor, administration, and activists from civil society organizations.

Additionally, five ex officio members, including Mayor Yoon Byeong-tae, the co-chairman, and heads of departments and offices, participated, forming a total of 25 members.

For the civilian co-chairman, Professor Choi Young-tae, an emeritus professor at Chonnam National University who served as the first chairman of the Gwangju Citizen Rights Committee and resolved the issue of constructing Urban Railway Line 2 through public discourse, was unanimously elected by the committee members.

Co-chairman Choi Young-tae stated, "The Citizen Rights Committee needs a perspective that looks at civil complaints, which have been dismissed as impossible, from the citizens' point of view. Sometimes, just listening can resolve complaints. I hope this committee will be one where related departments and experts gather to listen carefully on-site and find solutions."

Following this, former Naju City Communication Committee Chairman Lee Yun-seop was elected as vice-chairman, Associate Professor Moon Yoo-jeong of Goguryeo University as head of the Administrative Welfare subcommittee, and former Jeollanam-do Eco-friendly Agriculture Division Chief Lee Jeong-hee as head of the Economic Environment subcommittee.

Mayor Yoon Byeong-tae said, "I hope the Citizen Rights Committee becomes a problem-solving cooperative body that supplements the limits of administration that is legal but not rational, or rational but not legal, and resolves collective civil complaints that cause misunderstandings, exaggerations, or distrust through listening and communication."

Naju = Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yuk-bong baekok@asiae.co.kr

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