Pyeongtaek City Wins First Governance Local Politics Award

[Suwon Ilbo = Reporter Seo Dong-young] Pyeongtaek City won the Excellence Award in the administrative innovation category at the 'First Governance Local Politics Awards' ceremony held on the 1st at the Flower Expo venue of Ilsan Lake Park in Goyang City.

The awards ceremony, organized by the Governance Center and sponsored by the Committee on Decentralization of Self-Governance and others, was held to discover and disseminate proper local politics and autonomous decentralization activities through the governance paradigm, and to improve public recognition by identifying capable and healthy local politicians who will lead a true citizen-sovereignty governance nation in the future.

Since Mayor Jeong Jang-seon took office in the seventh popular election term, Pyeongtaek City was recognized for various accomplishments in administrative innovation, including ▲establishing civil-government governance bodies through the composition of cooperative councils and task forces ▲establishing an internal administrative governance support organization ▲spreading the resident participation budget system ▲laying the foundation for pilot conversion of resident autonomous councils for autonomous decentralization ▲spreading deliberative democracy culture through various forums.

Mayor Jeong Jang-seon said, "This award is the result of Pyeongtaek citizens and the administration working together to create a substantive public-private cooperation structure in response to the demands of the times for administrative innovation and autonomous decentralization," and added, "Going forward, we will do our best to build cooperative infrastructure to carry out citizen-centered city administration."