New Suwon Planning Committee Launches to Brighten Suwon and Its Citizens

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jung Jun-sung] The 'New Suwon Planning Committee,' which will establish the city administration direction including vision and key strategies for the 8th mayoral term of Suwon City and discover pledge implementation plans, launched on the 14th.

The launch ceremony was held at the main conference room of City Hall. The 'New Suwon Planning Committee' making its debut is organized into 5 divisions—△Economic Division △Urban Development Division △Environment and Transportation Division △Culture and Welfare Division △Autonomy and Education Division—and 2 special committees including 'Social Integration Committee' and 'Airport Relocation Committee.'

The committee members are composed of 85 people including professors and experts in relevant fields, citizens from Suwon's governance institutions and organizations, leaders and executives from civic organizations, and researchers from the Suwon Policy Research Institute.

Mayor Lee Jae-jun of Suwon Special City presented appointment certificates to 85 members of each division, including Hwang In-guk, President of the Korea Youth Foundation (serving as co-chair), and Oh Young-gyun, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Policy at Suwon University.

Operating until the end of September, the New Suwon Planning Committee will participate in policy establishment, proposals, and consultation regarding pledge projects, taking the lead in designing city administration policies and participating in citizen forums on city administration topics to gather public opinions.

The committee will establish concrete plans that can be practically applied to create momentum for project implementation and will draw up the '4-Year City Administration Plan for the 8th Mayoral Term' containing the vision, goals, and strategies of city administration.

Key responsibilities include △Setting the city administration direction for the 8th mayoral term △Discovering and presenting strategy tasks for policy implementation of pledge projects and discussing implementation methods (60 pledge projects and 40 hope projects) △Selecting priority projects to receive budgets and personnel resources as top priorities △Preparing plans for financial investment and securing financial resources for large-scale investment projects.

In particular, the committee plans to hold full meetings (3 times), division-specific meetings (5 times), and secretariat meetings (5 times) through September. Additional meetings will be held as needed for matters requiring discussion.

Mayor Lee Jae-jun of Suwon Special City stated, "I hope the New Suwon Planning Committee will listen well to the voices of citizens and set the vision and direction for Suwon City's 8th mayoral term based on public opinions," and urged, "Please join us in opening a new future for Suwon Special City."

Meanwhile, the Transition Committee for the 8th Mayoral Term of Suwon Special City announced three core visions and ten citizen special initiatives on June 30th.

The three core visions are 'Strong Economic Special City,' 'Clean Living Special City,' and 'Warm Care Special City.' The ten citizen special initiatives are △Suwon-style business attraction initiative △Suwon-style social economy initiative △Suwon-style livelihood economy initiative △Promoting Suwon-style advanced transportation initiative △Suwon-style housing environment initiative △Suwon-style carbon neutrality initiative △Suwon-style integrated care initiative △Suwon-style gap elimination initiative △Suwon-style culture and sports initiative △Suwon-style innovative administration initiative.