Eunpyeong-gu Opens the Curtain with 2024 Participatory Budget Resident Voting

Resident (Youth) Voting for Selection of 1.4 Billion KRW Participatory Budget in 2024

Online and Offline Voting from August 14 to September 15

Final Decision at Resident (Youth) Assembly on September 16

Eunpyeong-gu (Mayor Kim Mi-kyung) will conduct resident and youth voting for the selection of participatory budget projects and tasks for 2024 from August 14 to September 15, lasting about one month.

Participation is available online for all Eunpyeong-gu residents, including youth, through the Eunpyeong-gu resident participation online platform ‘Chamyeoui Keunsup’ website. Residents who find online voting difficult can participate by voting with OMR sheets at on-site polling stations installed in each neighborhood.

The policy tasks subject to resident voting include ▲Creating a welfare community where neighbors care for neighbors ▲Diversifying civic education and fostering an environment for community participation ▲Creating clear and clean streams ▲Establishing a culture of waste reduction ▲Walking safely and brightly even when turning into alleys ▲Ever-present greenery, urban greening ▲Establishing Eunpyeong ecological-historical-cultural-sports trails ▲Creating opportunities for resident participation, totaling eight tasks.

Voters are asked to select three policy tasks they think should be prioritized for implementation.

The youth voting projects include ▲Hey, you can volunteer too! ▲Career exploration school ▲Meetings with visiting experts at schools ▲Eunpyeong-gu youth carbon neutrality practice education ▲Support for cultural activities for youth at local children’s centers ▲Youth domestic exchange city culture experience programs, totaling six projects. Only Eunpyeong-gu youth can vote and may select three projects among them.

Notably, a new initiative this year is the public forum ‘Sopung,’ meaning small daily life and abundant resident proposals. Under the theme ‘The answer is on site!,’ this forum involves site visits for policy tasks requiring on-site information, followed by direct public discussions at the location. To encourage youth participation, a ‘Visiting Youth Public Forum’ was also operated, drawing strong responses from residents and youth alike.

Resident proposals concretized through the public forums were reviewed by the project departments and evaluated by the Resident Participation Committee and Youth Participatory Budget Operation Group before being selected as subjects for voting. The list of voting subjects can be checked on the Eunpyeong-gu online platform ‘Chamyeoui Keunsup’ website.

The results of the resident and youth voting will be finally announced at the Resident Assembly and Youth Assembly held at Eunpyeong Multipurpose Gymnasium on September 16.

Kim Mi-kyung, Mayor of Eunpyeong-gu, said, “With the Chamyeoui Keunsup system established to allow anyone to participate anytime and anywhere, the Resident Assembly, where projects are realized through residents’ proposals, will enable the exercise of residents’ precious rights. We ask for much interest and participation in the participatory budget projects,” adding, “We will create an Eunpyeong that grows and develops together with its residents.”

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