Seongdong-gu Conducts Village Agenda Selection Voting

Vote to Select Our Village Agenda! Seongdong-gu Holds Residents' General Meetings in 17 Neighborhoods

Residents' General Meetings Held in 17 Neighborhoods from July 18 to September 2...Rich Pre-Event Programs Including Magic Shows

2024 Residents' Autonomous Association Project Agendas and Neighborhood-Level Participatory Budget Projects Selected through Online and Offline Resident Voting

Seongdong-gu (Mayor Jeong Wono) announced that starting from the 18th of this month, residents' general meetings will be held under the supervision of each neighborhood's Residents' Autonomous Association to select project agendas for 2024.

The residents' general meeting is a public forum where residents deliberate on village agendas discovered by themselves to solve neighborhood issues closely related to residents' daily lives and decide through a final vote.

Anyone living in the respective neighborhood or affiliated with workplaces, organizations, or schools located in the neighborhood can participate.

To reflect diverse opinions, both online and on-site advance voting will be conducted, which is expected to enhance the public nature and representativeness of the village agendas. Since March this year, each neighborhood's Residents' Autonomous Association has discovered 99 village agendas across six fields including culture, resident education, environmental improvement, and climate response through village resource surveys by subcommittees. The discovered village agendas will be finally selected through the residents' general meetings.

The general meetings will be held according to each neighborhood's schedule from July 18 to September 2. On the day of the event, unique pre-event performances such as magic shows and traditional percussion band performances by autonomous association hall clubs will be held for local residents to participate in and enjoy together.

Key village agendas by neighborhood include ▲‘Life-closely Kiosk Experience’ visiting seniors ▲‘Cooking Class with Single-Person Households’ called ‘Jeongseong Damgo Gochujang Damgo’ ▲and events utilizing village landmarks to promote resident harmony and culture/leisure such as ‘Daehyeonsan Rose Garden Concert,’ ‘Seoul Forest Ginkgo Festival,’ and ‘Songjeong Cherry Blossom Festival.’ These will be finally selected through resident voting at this general meeting.

Seongdong-gu has been investing district funds since last year into neighborhood-level planned participatory projects originally funded by Seoul City, and this year will also promote resident autonomous activity support projects as independent projects to be selected at the residents' general meetings.

Additionally, this year's residents' general meetings will handle agenda items regarding the consignment and delegation of autonomous association hall program operations to reflect diverse resident demands and opinions. Through this, it is expected to become a Residents' Autonomous Association that communicates more with residents and approaches local residents more closely.

Jeong Wono, Mayor of Seongdong-gu, said, “I thank the Residents' Autonomous Association members and local residents who work hard for regional development, and I hope that projects essential to each neighborhood will be selected so that residents can be happy and our neighborhoods become better places to live.” He added, “We will continue to spare no multifaceted support to realize Seongdong-style resident autonomy.”

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