지방자치단체 상호간의 관계와 자치법제 이력의 변화와 발전(上)

Abstract

In order for local councils to faithfully fulfill their natural role, it is essential to enhance the autonomy and expertise that local councils can do their own work. Various measures have been suggested and some have been realized, but still It is true that local councils are in a relatively poor position compared to their human and material capabilities. In addition, the reality that the local administrative environment is becoming more and more specialized and expanded, and the decentralization and transfer of central offices, which have been continuously promoted, increase the local authority, such as the authority of local governments to organize their budgets and increase the autonomy of personnel and organizations. Brought the results. Therefore, it can be said that the role of the local council, a representative agency of the local residents, is more important than ever in order to effectively check the authority of the local government head, which is increasing, and to directly reflect the interests of the residents in the performance of the local government. The local autonomy system is an essential sign of the principle of national sovereignty and liberal democracy in the Korean Constitution, reflecting political interests, and despite several revisions to the Constitution from the Constitution to the present, its contents have not changed. This is because the local council can be said to be an expression of the ideology of democracy that the local autonomy system aims to realize as a representative institution of the residents with democratic legitimacy. However, local autonomy in Korea has always been implemented as an incomplete local autonomy focusing on the head of the local government, and as a result, the local council failed to sufficiently collect and reflect the public opinion of the residents in conducting local council activities. This resulted in the inability to properly perform the function of checking authority. This situation can be attributed to the lack of expertise of local councils or councilors, and the weakening of local council functions. Therefore, the office workers of local councils who are in charge of supporting the work of local councils and assisting local council members in legislative activities These discussions will inevitably continue without securing expertise in business performance and fundamental changes in personnel rights issues. In order to enhance the natural function of the local council, the control of the government or local government heads over the offices of local councils was excluded, and the local government law was amended to give the local council chairman the right to appoint. It should be ensured that the organization is dedicated solely to legislative activities. In order to do so, it would be desirable to have local councils have the personnel rights of local council office workers in a legislative way, or leave it to the local council's autonomy so that it can be determined by ordinance.