Gwangmyeong City to Develop Urban Forest, Democratic Citizenship Education, and Hometown Love Fund Policies with Private Sector

Municipal Governance Council Convenes: Three Governance Agenda Items Finalized
Working Committee to Be Established This Month to Strengthen Governance System

Gwangmyeong City in Gyeonggi Province is joining forces with the private sector to develop implementation plans for policies such as urban forest creation, democratic citizenship education, and the revitalization of the Hometown Love Fund.

On September 5, Gwangmyeong City held a 'Municipal Governance Council' meeting in the city hall conference room and selected these policies as governance agenda items.

The governance agenda items selected this time include: ▲ plans for citizen participation in the sustainable creation, management, and use of urban forests; ▲ measures to promote democratic citizenship education; and ▲ discovering designated donation projects for the Hometown Love Fund.

Earlier, from March to May, the city operated a policy task force dedicated to governance agenda items, gathering citizen feedback and consulting with departments to select 10 candidates. The city explained that, considering urgency and feasibility, it finalized three agenda items from among these candidates.

The 'Urban Forest Citizen Participation Plan' was chosen to create urban forests as living spaces closely connected to citizens' lives and to incorporate citizen input into the management process.

The 'Democratic Citizenship Education Promotion Plan' aims to help citizens internalize and practice democratic values, thereby enhancing their capacity for community activation and solidarity.

The agenda item 'Discovering Designated Donation Projects for the Hometown Love Fund' was included to encourage ongoing donations and promote regional development by identifying fund projects that reflect local resources and characteristics.

The finalized agenda items will be implemented through a public-private agenda promotion team composed of relevant departments, experts, and local activists, establishing a public-private cooperation system to develop concrete implementation plans and reflect them in policy.

During the meeting, the council also reviewed a proposal for establishing and operating a working committee. This committee will be responsible for discovering agenda items, managing the operation of the public-private agenda promotion team, and evaluating the performance of collaborative projects by department.

The city plans to begin full-scale operation of the working committee as soon as the 'Basic Ordinance for the Promotion of Public-Private Governance in Gwangmyeong City,' which provides the legal basis for its establishment, is promulgated.

Park Seungwon, Mayor of Gwangmyeong City, stated, "The public and private sectors will work together as partners to address governance agenda items and create changes that citizens can feel," adding, "We will establish a healthy governance structure in which the local community discusses every stage of the process-from discovering agenda items to implementation and evaluation-so that we can move forward as a sustainable city."

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