Suwon City Announces Recruitment for 20 Members of the Resident Participation Budget Committee

Resident Participation Budget System Guide Poster

The city of Suwon in Gyeonggi Province is publicly recruiting 20 members for the Resident Participation Budget Committee from January 12 to 26 to realize practical resident autonomy.

Eligibility to apply includes citizens registered as residents in Suwon as of the announcement date (January 12), as well as employees of businesses, educational institutions, corporations, and non-profit private organizations based in Suwon.

Considering applicants' gender, age, and region, committee candidates will be selected in February, and only those who complete the 'Resident Participation Budget School' course will be appointed as committee members.

Selected members will serve as Resident Participation Budget Committee members for two years until December 31, 2025.

The main activities of the committee include ▲collecting residents' opinions ▲deliberating and adjusting priorities of city and district-related projects, approving or requesting re-examination of projects submitted by regional meetings ▲finalizing and submitting the participatory budget ▲proposing reasonable directions for the implementation of resident participation budget projects and opinions on the city budget ▲reflecting departmental budgets according to priority decisions and inspecting execution results ▲promoting and educating about the budget.

The Resident Participation Budget System, a representative governance system of Suwon City, legally and institutionally guarantees residents' participation in the budget formulation process.

To strengthen resident participation and realize practical resident autonomy, Suwon City plans to improve the system from 2024 by having each neighborhood resident autonomy association perform the functions of district regional meetings and by having the resident general assembly decide the priority of resident participation budget projects in each neighborhood.

A Suwon City official stated, "From 2024, we plan to operate the Resident Participation Budget System centered on the resident autonomy associations to realize fiscal democracy and genuine resident autonomy."

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