Jeonnam Gwangju Unified Special City has a packed schedule ahead of it until the end of the year, starting with the confirmation hearing for the Deputy Mayor for Political Affairs, organizational reorganization, business reports, questions on administration, audit of government affairs, audit of administrative affairs, and review of next year's budget.
As the reorganization of the three government offices is implemented in a complex manner during the integration, executives and employees will have to move their duties and office buildings, so it is expected to be a test of how to implement the 'organizational reorganization without work gaps' emphasized by Mayor Min Hyeong-bae.
According to Jeonnam Gwangju City and the city council on the 5th, a personnel hearing will be held simultaneously for candidates Baek Seung-joo, Vice Mayor for Balanced Development, and Yoon Nan-sil, Vice Mayor for Citizen Sovereignty, on the 6th.
The two candidates' personnel hearing progress reports are scheduled to be adopted on the afternoon of the 7th, but on the same day, the integrated city will carry out its first organizational reorganization of 4 offices, 8 headquarters, and 27 bureaus, and the 4th special session of the city council will also be held.
On the 8th, the day after the new organization goes into operation, major department work reports begin.
From the 12th to the 15th, the first city administration and education administration questions after integration will be held, and on the 22nd, the National Assembly Public Administration and Security Committee's first state administration audit of the integrated special city will be conducted at the Gwangju Government Complex.
With hundreds of requests for data from members of the National Assembly ahead of the National Assembly, each department must identify new tasks while also collecting relevant data and creating responses.
Even after passing the October schedule, there isn't much time to catch your breath.
The city council will hold its second regular meeting from November 2 to December 16 to conduct an administrative audit and review the supplementary revised budget and the main budget for 2027.
As the Deputy Mayor for Political Affairs confirmation hearing, organizational reorganization, business report, administrative inquiry, National Assembly inspection, administrative affairs audit, and budget review continue, the new organization virtually has to handle responses to the National Assembly and the National Assembly and internal work at the same time until the end of the year.
What is particularly increasing the burden is that as the functions of the three government offices, Gwangju, Muan, and Dongbu, are adjusted through this reorganization, some departments are relocated and employees are reassigned to each office.
Employees must hand over existing work to their successors and take over new work at the same time, and if their work location changes, they must also move offices and computer equipment.
If the person in charge of an existing project changes due to a department merger or work adjustment, the new person in charge must re-examine the past project implementation process, budget, contracts, etc., which may further increase the work burden in the process of preparing administrative questions or national inspection data.
Newly appointed offices, directors, and managers must identify current issues immediately after taking office, report on their work to the mayor, and immediately respond to questions from the city council and the National Assembly.
For this reason, Mayor Min also emphasized business continuity early on during the reorganization process.
At an expanded executive meeting last month, Mayor Min ordered executives to manage pending issues without disruption, saying, “There should not be a gap in existing work due to organizational reorganization.”
As major schedules are scheduled from immediately after the reorganization until the end of the year, the establishment of the new organization is expected to depend on how quickly the handover of tasks and collaboration between government offices can be reorganized to reduce existing administrative gaps.
