Many key issues raised in the questioning session of Vinh City People's Council

Delegates attending the session. Photo: Mai Hoa

Prioritize urgent issues

The issue that many wards and communes have expressed concern about at recent meetings with voters and elected representatives at all levels is the slow progress in approving zoning for wards and communes.

Delegate Nguyen Xuan Toan - Chairman of the People's Committee of Quan Bau Ward specifically stated that the initiation of the construction of zoning plans for wards and communes was initiated in 2016, and after 3 years, only 6/25 wards and communes have been approved by the province. Meanwhile, the time that the city has set to complete this task by 2020 is only 1 year left, so what is the solution to promote this task?

Head of Urban Management Department Nguyen Quoc Thang answers questions about zoning plans for wards and communes. Photo: Mai Hoa

Responding to this issue, Head of the Urban Management Department Nguyen Quoc Thang admitted the delay and gave many reasons such as low quality of planning consultancy, slow progress, and long process to get approval from the province.

Currently, only 6 wards and communes have been approved by the province; 13 wards and communes are waiting for provincial approval; 3 wards and communes will be submitted to the Department of Construction for appraisal in December.

Currently, there are 3 wards and communes that have not completed the project, including Trung Do, Nghi Kim, and Hung Hoa, due to investment projects in the area and are committed to striving to complete it by the end of the first quarter of 2020.

Delegate Tran Trung Kien questioned the City People's Committee about solutions to effectively promote night streets and walking streets. Photo: Mai Hoa

Another issue that many delegates of the City People's Council questioned the Vinh City People's Committee was related to the plan to allocate public investment capital, solve urgent infrastructure problems, especially some degraded Hai Thuong Lan Ong extended roads such as Nguyen Truong To, Nguyen Quoc Tri...; invest in canal systems, prevent local flooding in Dong Vinh and Cua Nam wards as well as general flood prevention solutions for the entire city.

After the response of Head of Finance - Planning Department Nguyen Sy Dieu and Head of Urban Management Department Nguyen Quoc Thang on the city's investment attraction plan as well as medium-term investment capital arrangement, Chairman of Vinh City People's Council Nguyen Van Lu emphasized the guiding viewpoint of the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee and Standing Committee of the City People's Council in arranging medium-term public investment capital must absolutely prioritize the implementation of urgent and essential projects to prevent flooding, build schools, public works, seriously degraded roads...

Delegate Nguyen Thi Lan Anh questioned the City People's Committee about solutions to manage service fees, especially bicycle parking services at markets and entertainment areas, which are being arbitrarily and not in accordance with regulations. Photo: Mai Hoa

Based on the questions from the City People's Council delegates and leaders of some wards and communes, the Chairman of the City People's Council also reminded the specialized departments of the Provincial People's Committee to pay attention to solving the problems and limitations in the apartment complex, especially the need to seriously implement the province's comprehensive inspection conclusion on the apartment complex.

In addition, pay attention to solving the problem of parking; proactively advise and propose to the province to allow parking on sidewalks on some roads with wide sidewalks to ensure urban order and avoid traffic congestion; associated with strengthening inspection and strict handling of violations of stopping and parking in prohibited areas.

Chairman of the City People's Council Nguyen Van Lu requested the specialized departments of the City People's Committee to absorb the questions and discussions of the delegates at the meeting to have a plan and specific solutions. Photo: Mai Hoa

Along with that, we need to coordinate well with the province to speed up the approval process of 25 wards and communes, creating conditions to promote the overall development of the city; properly handle policies, benefits as well as legitimate recommendations of the people.

Passed 9 socio-economic resolutions

At the 11th session, the City People's Council discussed and passed 9 important resolutions:

- Resolution on socio-economic development tasks in 2020

- Resolution on approval and allocation of the 2020 state budget estimate

- Resolution on adjusting and supplementing the 5-year medium-term public investment plan, period 2016 - 2021

- Resolution on public investment plan for 2020

72m overpass. Photo courtesy

- Resolution on handling the results of the general review of legal documents issued by the City People's Council from December 31, 2018 or earlier.

- Resolution on the results of monitoring the settlement of voters' petitions in Vinh city, period 2015 - 2018

- Resolution on organizing the regular meeting of the City People's Council in 2020

- Resolution on building and promulgating resolutions of Vinh City People's Council in 2020

- Resolution to establish a delegation to supervise the implementation of resolutions of the City People's Council.