Uijeongbu City Announces Legislative Notice for 'Uijeongbu Urban Education Foundation Establishment and Operation Ordinance'

A panoramic view of Uijeongbu City Hall.

Uijeongbu City, Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Kim Dong-geun) has initiated administrative procedures to integrate the Uijeongbu Lifelong Learning Center and the Uijeongbu Youth Foundation.

On the 31st, Uijeongbu City announced that it had publicly notified the "Ordinance on the Establishment and Operation of the Uijeongbu Urban Education Foundation" on the 28th.

Previously, aiming to strengthen fiscal soundness, the city conducted an organizational diagnosis of its affiliated public institutions, promoted a service to devise efficient operational plans for its subsidiaries, and held expert working group and strategic meetings.

This ordinance was prepared to launch the integrated foundation, the "Urban Education Foundation," based on the results of this process.

The main contents of the ordinance include ▲ projects to promote lifelong learning activation and the healthy development of youth ▲ matters related to the foundation’s articles of incorporation and operations ▲ matters related to facility management ▲ comprehensive succession of rights and obligations of the Youth Foundation to the Uijeongbu Urban Education Foundation.

Once the Urban Education Foundation is launched in May next year, overlapping functions related to educational facility management, community linkage projects, and support functions such as personnel, organization, and accounting across institutions will be integrated, enabling efficiency improvements such as reducing expenses associated with administrative procedures.

Under the premise that "education is the responsibility of the city," the city plans to provide a stepping stone for future opportunities through the Urban Education Foundation by expanding citizens’ ▲ life experiences ▲ job competency enhancement ▲ social participation.

Additionally, the foundation is expected to create a synergistic effect through building networks with local lifelong education and youth-related organizations and playing a central (hub) role.

The city will collect public opinions on this ordinance until November 17 and plans to submit it to the city council in December.

A city official stated, "The establishment of the Uijeongbu Urban Education Foundation will be an important milestone for Uijeongbu City to become a city that learns, grows, and prospers together," and added, "We ask for the citizens’ great interest as Uijeongbu strives to leap forward as a sustainable city with learning and growth."

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