Bucheon City Recruit Citizen Members of Participatory Budgeting Committee

Participate Budgeting of Bucheon City 

Bucheon City Recruit Citizen Members of Participatory Budgeting Committee

Bucheon City is recruiting citizen members of Participatory Budgeting Committee and Resident Council for Participatory Budgeting from April 8 to 30, 2013. 

With Bucheon Participatory Budgeting, the city gathers the opinions of Bucheon citizens through all the processes of budgeting in order to make the budget of Bucheon City clearer and fairer and to realize citizens' participation in Administration of Bucheon City .

The city is recruiting in public 100 members per a town of Resident Councils for Participatory Budgeting. Anyone who is living or working at companies and non-profit non-governmental organizations in Bucheon City and is older than 19 years on April 8, 2013 can apply for the members.

The applicants can visit Resident Community Center of the town where he or she is living or send a mail to Bucheon City Hall or send an email at the web site of Participatory Budgeting of which the web address is http://budget.bucheon.go.kr.

The selected members of Resident Participatory Budgeting Council gather opinions of local residents about budgeting, and recommend citizen members who will attend the Citizen Budgeting Committee as representatives for their towns and make up the budget of Bucheon City.

The members of the Citizen Participatory Budgeting Committee, consist of 72 recommended members from each town's Resident Participatory Budgeting Councils and 28 members who are recommended by non-profit private organizations

The members of the Citizen Committee are mainly active in six subcommittees on Administration, Economy & Culture, Society & Welfare, City Development, Environment & Cleaning, and Traffic & Road. And they will discuss budgeting and advance the opinions from their Resident Councils in the subcommittees. The period of membership is one year.

Head of Budgeting Team, Jeongkuen Park said "I want a lot of citizens to apply for members of Participatory Budgeting Council and Committee in order to set up good budgeting for residents in Bucheon City."

For more information, contact your Resident Community Center or Department of Planning & Budgeting whose phone number is +82-32-625-2524 and whose twitter address is @bc_create.