Yeoju City Takes First Step toward Citizen-Centered New Municipal Building

[Suwon Ilbo=Eom In-yong Reporter] Yeoju City held the first meeting of the 'Yeoju City New Municipal Building Project Citizen Advisory Group' on the 24th, which was organized for the construction of the new municipal building, and commenced full-scale activities.

The citizen advisory group was composed of citizen representatives including the elderly, people with disabilities, women, and parents, as well as private experts in the fields of transportation, architecture, landscape, and design, and internal civil servants, in order to collect opinions from diverse segments of society and reflect professional perspectives.

This meeting shared the progress of the basic design of the new municipal building currently being pursued with the advisory group, and the advisory group proposed various ideas including spatial arrangement proposals considering citizen convenience and designs reflecting the symbolism of Yeoju City.

Meanwhile, along with the operation of the citizen advisory group, the city is also actively collecting opinions from the general public by establishing and operating a 'Suggestions for Yeoju City's New Municipal Building' bulletin board on the city government website.

Mayor Lee Chung-woo stated, "Through the operation of the citizen advisory group, we will reflect citizens' opinions to the maximum extent, and do our best to build a new municipal building that can become a new symbol of Yeoju City."