The city wants one month extra time to process the proposals of the Citizens’ Assembly
The steering group of the Citizens’ Assembly met on March 27 and decided that they would like at least a month of additional time to finish their work and decide how the responsibility for implementing the proposals will be distributed in the city and in which budget period the necessary work can be planned. Initially, Tallinn had to submit the results of the elaboration of 39 proposals of the Green Capital Citizens’ Assembly by March 31
“We have set ourselves the goal of dealing with the identification of possibilities for the implementation of the proposals as substantively as possible. Since the majority of the proposals of the Citizens’ Assembly are rather strategic in nature, and the areas of responsibility for their implementation intersect, we will take at least one extra month to publicize our responses in the city,” said Tuuli Veersalu from the green transition office of the Tallinn Strategy Center.
What has been the work process so far with the proposals of the Citizens’ Assembly in the city of Tallinn?
On November 4 of last year, Tallinn’s first, Green Capital Citizens’ assembly presented the city with 39 proposals to improve the quality of urban space as a living environment, to increase the involvement and cooperation of residents – so that the city’s landscaping and green areas can support adaptation to climate change and residents’ well-being in the best possible way.
Two groups were formed in the city to process and respond to the proposals: a working group of experts from the city units, which also includes representatives of the district governments, and a steering group of the heads of city offices, which, based on the input of the working group, makes decisions on how the responsibility for implementing the proposals will be distributed and in which budget period the necessary works can be planned.
For the first three months of this year, the working group, i.e. more than 40 employees from 16 city units and district governments, have intensively worked through proposals, described what is already being done in the city and what could be done additionally or differently so that the people’s proposals could be implemented in the best way. In the direction of proposals of a strategic nature, the city has set goals and objectives in the development strategy Tallinn 2035 and the Tallinn climate plan, partly also in the Tallinn sustainable urban mobility plan 2035. In general, it can be said about all the proposals of the Citizens’ Assembly that they are taken into account and are already being dealt with in one way or another.
Based on input from the working group of the Citizens’ Assembly, the steering group is holding discussions on sectoral cross-responsibility and time distribution of activities. Once the steering group has made its decisions, the green turn office of the Tallinn Strategy Center can put together a report on the city’s responses to the people’s council’s proposals. The city plans to present it in May.