On the afternoon of December 8, continuing the 11th session, the 8th Hue City People's Council spent time discussing, reviewing and voting to approve many important contents related to socio-economic development, budget and ensuring social security in the area.

The Standing Committee of the City People's Council chaired and directed the meeting.

Allocating more than 252 billion VND to overcome flood consequences

At the meeting, delegates studied the submissions of the City People's Committee and listened to the review reports of the People's Council Committees on many major issues. Notable among them were the plan to allocate funds to overcome damage caused by floods in 2025 and submissions on public investment.

Examining the allocation of more than 252 billion VND to overcome the consequences of floods, the Economic - Budget Committee of the City People's Council said that Hue has received 350 billion VND from the Central Government through three decisions of the Prime Minister; Dak Lak province has supported an additional 2 billion VND; the mobilized source through the City Front reached 148.5 billion VND. The total source received is about 500.5 billion VND.

This time, the urgent need to overcome natural disaster damage is 332 billion VND, the City People's Committee proposed to allocate 252 billion VND, including: 2.7 billion VND to support people to repair houses; 14.3 billion VND for minor repairs, cleaning up mud and garbage, damaged equipment; 58 billion VND to repair educational, cultural and relic infrastructure; 177 billion VND to repair traffic, irrigation, agriculture , environment, trees, and lighting.

The remaining 100 billion VND will be prioritized for large projects after having sufficient documents reviewed. The Board agreed with the allocation plan to "timely overcome the damage caused by floods".

Regarding the reports on public investment, two audit reports of the Economic - Budget Committee said that after the government model was restructured, the development investment capital managed by the district budget was transferred to the city budget.

The City People's Committee submitted to the People's Council adjustments and supplements to the medium-term public investment plan for 2025 with the same capital of VND 1,015,032 billion, implementing 475 projects.

The Department of Finance has reviewed and compared with the Treasury to ensure legal compliance. The Board agreed with the submitted documents and assessed the adjustment as “within authority and necessary to ensure public investment progress after administrative unit rearrangement”.

Delegates study the presentation at the meeting.

Perfecting policies for non-professional activists

Regarding the social security sector, the City People's Council has considered a one-time subsidy policy for employees working outside the payroll quota at district-level Associations who quit their jobs due to the implementation of the 2-level local government model.

Examining this content, the Legal Committee of the City People's Council determined that the issuance of a resolution regulating a one-time subsidy regime for non-staff employees at the Associations before July 1, 2025 is necessary and within the authority. This is a group of subjects that must retire immediately when the city switches to a 2-level local government model.

According to the draft, the support level is divided into groups. Retired Presidents and Vice Presidents of the Association: Subsidy equal to 5 months of current salary or remuneration. Presidents and Vice Presidents of working age: Receive 5 months of salary, plus 1.5 months of salary/year of work with compulsory social insurance (SI). Contract workers: Receive 3 months of salary and an additional 1.5 months of salary/year of work. In case of no salary or remuneration: Support equal to 5 times the basic salary.

The total expenditure does not exceed 24 months of salary as prescribed. The Legal Department said that this level of support is in accordance with legal regulations, budget capacity and "ensures the legitimate rights of beneficiaries, creating consensus in the arrangement of the organizational apparatus".

At the meeting, the Legal Committee also presented a comprehensive picture of the organization of villages and residential groups after the administrative unit arrangement and the transition to a two-level local government model. After the arrangement, the city currently has 1,105 villages and residential groups, including 423 villages and 682 residential groups. The Committee said that there are still 100 villages and 76 residential groups that do not meet the standards; in some places, there are only 15-20 households left due to the relocation and clearance of relics.

Many localities are still confused because the term of office of village chiefs and group leaders is not unified; the name conversion work is still slow, and 2 communes and wards have not completed the progress.

Despite the large workload, the grassroots cadres still strive to maintain activities, reconcile the grassroots, propagate policies, and mobilize people to build culture and urban beautification. However, non-professional staff fluctuates, quality is uneven; facilities in many places are degraded, there is a lack of community centers; payment of streamlined regimes for people who quit their jobs according to Decree 154/2025 is slow; difficulties are evident when the Social Insurance Law 2024 requires non-professional workers to pay compulsory social insurance but there are no regulations on support funding sources.

The Legal Department proposed that the Government soon issue new regulations on the organization of villages and residential groups in accordance with the two-level government model; supplement the mechanism for allocating allowance funds including social insurance and health insurance support. The City People's Committee needs to review and re-issue regulations on classifying villages and residential groups from 2021; complete the payment of streamlined regimes; strengthen training and fostering of grassroots cadres...

Delegates voted to pass the resolution at the meeting.

At the meeting, many other contents were also considered such as: Regulations on criteria for establishing Civil Defense Teams; collection and payment of civil registration fees; mechanism for decentralization of revenue sources, expenditure tasks and percentage of revenue sharing between government levels; adjustment of medical examination and treatment service prices; zoning planning of Hai Nhat Spillway - Ta Rinh Lake Ecotourism Area; regulations on areas where livestock farming and swiftlet farming are not allowed; policy on changing forest types in Sao La and Phong Dien Nature Reserves; decision on the number of professional and technical labor contracts according to Decree 111/2022/ND-CP in the 2025 - 2026 school year...

Participating in the discussion, delegate Vo Le Nhat said that in the context of operating a two-level local government model, the commune level will be assigned many new management tasks, especially in areas such as housing and land management; medical station operation; educational facility management...

However, budget resources for maintenance and repair of facilities are still limited and cannot meet the requirements when the volume of work and infrastructure to be managed is increasing.

Delegates recommended that city leaders pay attention to allocating more resources to ensure conditions for communes to perform their tasks well, especially the maintenance of infrastructure and essential facilities in the area.

After discussion, the City People's Council unanimously approved 19 resolutions, including the contents presented during the working day, along with a resolution on the results of monitoring the settlement of voters' petitions at the 10th session and the results of resolving issues arising between the two sessions.

The adopted resolutions are considered an important basis for Hue city to implement socio-economic development tasks for 2025-2026, perfect the two-level local government model and create momentum for national target programs in the area.

Le Tho - Duc Quang

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