Lee Jae-myung Agrees to Form Standing Policy Consultation Body with 31 Mayors and County Executives

Gyeonggi Province and 31 municipalities have agreed to establish a standing policy consultation body to discuss major policy formulation and implementation methods and seek solutions to conflicts.

Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myung and mayors and county executives in the province held the first mayors and county executives meeting of the seventh elected term on July 24 at Good Morning House and adopted a collaborative resolution including "composition and operation of the Policy Cooperation Committee." Thirty mayors and county executives attended the meeting, excluding Seongnam City.

Governor Lee said, "The new Gyeonggi Province is a place where the characteristics and diversity of each of the 31 municipalities are respected," and added, "I will make efforts so that the relationship is not one-sided but all municipalities can practice mutual respect and substantive collaborative governance."

The governor further stated, "If we establish a consultation body that can address common challenges shared by multiple municipalities, such as development of publicly owned land and regulatory relaxation in the northeastern region of Gyeonggi, we will form a team in the province to respond. We will coordinate and make recommendations to the national government from the provincial level. Since a good evaluation of municipal governments will result in a good evaluation of the provincial governor, I will regard the work done by each municipality as my work as provincial governor and pay attention to it."

A Gyeonggi Province official said, "This Policy Cooperation Committee is significantly different in that it has institutionalized the existing cooperation relationship between the province and municipalities, which had remained at the level of mutually beneficial cooperation," and noted, "It is meaningful in that it is not a social gathering but a standing consultative body that can discuss actual policy formulation and implementation and resolve conflicts."