Wonju Mayor Koo Ja-yeol meets with Budget and Budget Committee Chairman Lee Gwang-jae to secure additional national funds for projects not reflected or reduced in the government budget

Mayor Koo Ja-yeol meets with Chairman Lee Kwang-jae of the Budget and Accounts Budget Committee... Suggestion of budget not reflected or reduced

(Wonju = Yonhap News) Reporter Lim Bo-yeon = Wonju City, Gangwon-do, has begun to secure additional national funds for next year for 16 major pending projects that are not or only partially reflected in the government budget.

Mayor Koo Ja-yeol announced on the 2nd that he visited the National Assembly, met with Lee Kwang-jae, chairman of the National Assembly Budget and Accounts Special Committee, and proposed government support for major pending projects.

Mayor Koo delivered a list of projects that were omitted or reduced from the government budget and requested that the necessary budget be reflected additionally during the deliberation process at the National Assembly.

In particular, we sought cooperation so that infrastructure projects closely related to citizens' lives, including the construction of the Yeoju-Wonju double-track railway, can be carried out without disruption.

Prior to this, Mayor Koo met with Hwang Sun-gwan, head of the National Treasury at the Ministry of Finance and Economy, on the 30th of last month and discussed regional issues such as the use of the Wonju Prison site and the construction of the Yeoju-Wonju double-track subway.

We also requested cooperation at the government level so that the project to create a civic plaza and park on the existing site of Wonju Prison can be carried out smoothly.

The Yeoju-Wonju double-track railway proposed reflecting an additional KRW 103 billion, a reduction of the KRW 293 billion originally requested for the 2027 budget.

The city plans to cooperate with local politicians during the National Assembly budget review process and continue to respond to each project in accordance with the review stages of the Standing Committee and the Budget and Accounts Special Committee.

Wonju Mayor Koo Ja-yeol said, “We will do our best to ensure that national funds are reflected as much as possible by explaining the necessity of projects that are not included in the government plan or are only partially reflected.”