Sacheon-si Holds First Resident Participatory Budget Committee Meeting of the Year

20 Resident Participation Budget Projects for Next Year Confirmed, Totaling 209 Million KRW

Sacheon City in Gyeongnam announced on the 5th that the 2025 resident participation budget has been finalized at 2.09 billion KRW.

The city held the ‘2024 Sacheon City Resident Participation Budget Committee’ at the City Hall Student Council Room to prepare the budget for the next year and finalized the projects for the 2025 resident participation budget.

2024 Sacheon City Resident Participatory Budget Committee Meeting.

The Resident Participation Budget Committee, after thorough discussions on resident-proposed projects reviewed for feasibility by the responsible departments, finalized 20 projects totaling 2.09 billion KRW as the 2025 resident participation budget.

The finalized projects include 7 citizen contest projects worth 1.014 billion KRW that benefit the majority of citizens, and 13 regional development projects worth 995 million KRW aimed at improving residents’ living conditions at the eup, myeon, and dong levels.

These projects will be included in the main budget request for next year, undergo budget review by the city council, and will be disclosed to citizens through the Sacheon City website.

Deputy Mayor Kim Seong-gyu stated, “The resident participation budget is a system to realize fiscal democracy, and citizen participation is most important. We will strive to expand the scale of contests annually and encourage more citizens to participate so that diverse projects can be discovered.”

Meanwhile, from April 29 to June 21, the city solicited resident participation budget proposals for the 2025 budget, receiving a total of 48 proposals worth 6.185 billion KRW, including 28 citizen contest projects worth 4.776 billion KRW and 20 regional development projects worth 1.409 billion KRW.

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