Osan City Achieves 'Highest Excellence' Rating in Manifestation Implementation Evaluation

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Lee Soo-won] As Osan City enters the second year of the 8th Civil-Elected term and reaches the halfway point, it is focusing on fulfilling its promises to citizens by completing or continuing to promote half of its 77 campaign projects.

The city announced on the 13th that it achieved an SA (Highest Excellence) rating in the '2024 8th Civil-Elected Term 2nd Year National Basic Local Government Leaders' Campaign Promise Fulfillment and Information Disclosure Evaluation' recently announced by the Korea Manifestation Implementation Headquarters.

The city is promoting a total of 77 campaign promises in 4 major sectors, setting "Change Together, Future City Osan" as its vision for the 8th civil-elected term, and completed 38 projects (49%) as of March 2024.

The city received the SA rating as it was recognized for fulfilling campaign promises based on systematic pledge management and active communication with citizens, as well as achieving high-level performance in information disclosure.

In fact, the city has distinguished itself in campaign promise fulfillment in the transportation and urban development, education and welfare, youth policy, and administration sectors.

In transportation and urban development, the following campaign projects were completed: △GTX (Metropolitan Express Railroad) C-line extension to Osan △Early completion of Segyo 2 District △Early completion of the 3rd General Industrial Complex △Improvement of transportation system for Segyo Districts 3-7 (Geuam Village) △Creation of Osaecsseul Walkway (Gapgolsan to Doksan Fortress section) △Securing safe pedestrian walkways on National Route 1.

In the education and welfare sector, the following were listed: △Support for happiness dormitories △Operation of Starlight Children's Hospital and partner pharmacies △Installation of apartment infants shuttle shelters (Saeissak Station) △New pedestrian overpass canopy at Sammi Elementary School △Improvement of working conditions for childcare center and kindergarten teachers △Expansion of childbirth incentive payments.

In youth policy, the city completed campaign projects including △establishment of Osan City Youth Policy Development Committee △support for youth job and startup preparation, and in the administration sector, △promotion of branch offices in Daewon-dong and Sinjang-dong △composition and operation of Osan City Development Committee.

Meanwhile, this evaluation was conducted to identify urgent tasks and countermeasures through mid-term verification of campaign promise fulfillment by civil-elected local leaders in the 8th term. From February onwards, campaign promises of local governments nationwide were evaluated in 5 sectors.

The 5 sectors include campaign promise completion, 2023 goal achievement, resident communication (100 points), web communication (Pass/Fail), and consistency (Pass/Fail), evaluated as of the end of 2023 and results were classified into 6 grades ranging from SA to F.

Mayor Lee Kwon-jae stated, "Campaign projects are promises to citizens and must be fulfilled promptly. I remain unchanged in my belief that providing citizens with transparent information on fulfillment status is the realization of core democratic values," and added, "I will become a mayor who works with all my might with the conviction to achieve 100% completion of campaign promise fulfillment."