Guro-gu Holds Resident Participatory Budget General Assembly

2024 Resident Participation Budget Projects: 18 Common Projects Worth 1.2561 Billion KRW, 30 Dong Area Projects Worth 543 Million KRW, Totaling 1.8 Billion KRW Confirmed

Guro-gu (District Mayor Moon Heon-il) announced on the 23rd that at the Residents' Participatory Budget General Assembly held at the district office auditorium on the 20th, 48 projects worth 1.8 billion KRW for the 2024 Residents' Participatory Budget were finally approved.

The Residents' Participatory Budget is a system designed to expand residents' participation in the budget formulation process to ensure transparency, fairness, and efficiency in local financial management and to realize fiscal democracy.

Since May, the district received 119 resident-proposed projects through a one-month public contest.

Subsequently, the proposed projects submitted as common district projects underwent appropriateness reviews by the responsible departments and deliberations by the Residents' Participatory Budget Subcommittee, which determined priorities, resulting in 23 projects being submitted to the general assembly.

At the general assembly, the 2024 Residents' Participatory Budget projects were selected and finally approved based on the results of a nine-day resident vote held from the 11th to the 19th on the submitted projects.

The common district projects included 18 projects worth 1.2561 billion KRW, covering five subcommittees: welfare support, housing environment, safety and transportation, general administration, and health. Selected projects included ▲ Welfare Support: "Distribution of Smart Devices for Tracking the Location of People with Developmental Disabilities," ▲ Housing Environment: "Improvement of the Environment Around Guro-gu Stations," ▲ Safety and Transportation: "Installation of Floor-type Pedestrian Traffic Lights," ▲ General Administration: "Dorimcheon Dalbitgaram Festival," and ▲ Health: "Depression Screening Tests for the Elderly."

Meanwhile, for neighborhood-level projects, regional meetings were held in August for each neighborhood, and among 57 projects proposed by residents, a total of 30 projects were selected, including ▲ Guro 1-dong: "Installation of Pedestrian Safety Fence near the Main Gate of Guil Elementary School," ▲ Guro 2-dong: "Installation of Odor Prevention Covers for Rainwater Drains," ▲ Garibong-dong: "Creation of Safe School Routes in Child Protection Zones," ▲ Gaebong 2-dong: "Improvement of Security Light Illumination in Gaebong Retention Basin," and ▲ Oryu 1-dong: "Installation of LED Gaze Guidance Lights at Crosswalks."

The 18 projects approved at the general assembly and the 30 neighborhood-level projects will be reflected in the budget formulation requests for the next fiscal year and are expected to be finalized after budget deliberations by the district council in November.

A Guro-gu official stated, "We will strive to ensure that the projects selected through the general assembly are well implemented," and added, "We hope for active participation so that projects needed by residents can be selected in next year's Residents' Participatory Budget as well."

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