'Third 2016 Gyeonggi Province Coalition Execution Committee' Held

The Gyeonggi Province Coalition Execution Committee (Co-Chairmen Lee Ki-woo, Vice Governor for Social Integration; Kim Hyun-sam, Democratic Party Representative; Yoon Tae-gil, Saenuri Party Representative) held its third meeting of 2016 on the morning of the 25th at the provincial government situation room and received a briefing on the draft results of a research project on management rationalization measures for public institutions under the province.

In accordance with the coalition agreement reached between the province and provincial council in August 2014, the Coalition Execution Committee established the "Gyeonggi Province Public Institution Management Rationalization Promotion Council" (Chairman Professor Kim Kwang-yun from Ajou University) under its purview and has been seeking management rationalization measures for 25 public institutions.

Accordingly, the Promotion Council received business reports from each public institution over four sessions last year, and in December 2015 selected Elio & Company as the research agency to conduct the rationalization measures study.

The Coalition Execution Committee meeting on this day served as a briefing session on the Promotion Council's progress report to date and a presentation of the research project draft by the research agency (Elio & Company).

The research report briefed on this day contains measures to reduce the overall number of public institutions by consolidating redundant and overlapping functions of 25 public institutions.

The Coalition Execution Committee plans to conduct additional research projects on ▲selection of agencies to relocate headquarters to the northern region, ▲management rationalization within public institutions, and ▲improvement of public institution regulations and systems, as soon as the management rationalization target institutions are confirmed.

Vice Governor Lee Ki-woo stated, "This research report is a draft containing the foundation of public institution management rationalization measures, and the Promotion Council, in which provincial councilors, private sector experts, and the executive branch participate together, will continue in-depth discussions," and added, "In the future, we plan to collect diverse opinions from all sectors of society including the provincial council, public institutions, and civic organizations, and prepare a final plan for public institution management rationalization through public hearings and other procedures to be submitted to the Gyeonggi Provincial Council's May extraordinary session."

Meanwhile, the Coalition Execution Committee decided on this day to include the representative director of the (tentative name) Gyeonggi Province Jobs Foundation, which is preparing to launch to comprehensively promote job service projects, as a subject for confirmation hearing.