Pyeongtaek City Holds Outstanding Examples Contest for Administrative Innovation

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Pyeongtaek City held an Outstanding Examples Contest for Administrative Innovation on the 1st at the conference room of City Hall, with approximately 250 employees including senior civil servants in attendance.

The contest was conducted with on-site presentations by case managers for six cases that passed the first review stage out of 24 collaborative excellence cases submitted from all departments. The final rankings were confirmed by combining 60% from the contest judging results and 40% from preliminary online public opinion survey results through the "National Opinion Box."

The Grand Prize was awarded to 'collaboration between heat-reduction facility installation and operation departments.' The Excellence Awards went to 'We Can Do It Together! Removal of Illegal Advertisements through Public-Private Cooperation' and 'Creation of Parking Lot through Collaboration on Railroad Corporation-Owned Parcels.'

The Encouragement Awards were given to 'Achieving Zero Unvisited Tax Registration and License Tax Inquiries,' 'Seonggang Riverside Renaissance Project through Private-Public Cooperation Committee Operations,' and 'Water Quality Improvement in Tongbok Stream and Baedari Reservoir.'

Following the awards ceremony, a special lecture by an expert in the collaboration field was held to devise public-private collaboration activation strategies and explore development directions.

Meanwhile, the city plans to incorporate the cases selected in today's contest into city policies.

Mayor Jung Jang-seon stated, "Collaboration is very important for improving efficient working environments within organizations and enhancing citizens' quality of life," and urged, "Please actively push for citizen-centered administrative services by discovering and supporting collaborative tasks that break down barriers between the public and private sectors and between departments."