Suwon City Wins Commendation Award from Ministry of Interior and Safety for 2022 Public Property Category

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jung Jun-sung] Suwon City announced on the 30th that it won a commendation award for the 'Smart Comprehensive Inspection Project for Public Property' using the Geographic Information System program (QGIS) at the Ministry of Interior and Safety's '2022 Public Property Award for Local Governments.'

Public property refers to buildings and land (such as dong administrative welfare center buildings and public parking lots) acquired and managed by local governments.

The 'Public Property Award for Local Governments,' hosted by the Ministry of Interior and Safety and organized by the Korea Local Government Mutual Aid Association, is an award given to outstanding local governments (11 selected) that have achieved excellent results in the development of local finances by efficiently managing and utilizing public property. The award ceremony was held on the 27th at the Seonovel Cheonan resort.

In this public property award evaluation, Suwon City received consistently high scores across all categories, including local government efforts, business originality, cooperation, effectiveness, and utilization and spread potential.

The city has been operating the Smart Comprehensive Inspection Project for Public Property since March to enhance the accuracy of public property information and efficiently utilize and manage public property.

The core initiative involves conducting a comprehensive survey to identify discrepancies between registration matters of Suwon City's public property and the status of the Public Property System (a civil servant-exclusive computer system managing public property acquisition and disposal), and conducting comprehensive inspections to enhance accuracy. The city is carrying out inspection work on all public property owned by Suwon.

In particular, starting this year, a new survey method using the 'QGIS program (a geographic information system (GIS) application providing spatial data viewing, editing, and analysis functions)' and drones was introduced. As a result of surveying public property status, the city achieved approximately 300 million won in budget savings through non-budgeted work performed using in-house personnel (civil servants) without entering into specialized outsourcing contracts.