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Daimaru District Hall (Daimaru District)

Updated: January 23, 2020

due date

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Q&A overview

Contents of question Answer
[About disaster prevention radio]
Due to the damage caused by the recent Typhoon No. 15, Chiba Prefecture is still experiencing a large-scale power outage. According to reports, when the power goes out, disaster prevention radio systems cannot be used, meaning that people are unable to receive information from the government.
Disaster prevention radio is an important piece of equipment for transmitting information from the city to its citizens, so it would be a problem if the disaster prevention radio could not be used due to a power outage. Is Inagi City's administrative radio okay?
・As for the disaster prevention radio only, I cannot confirm whether it will be able to operate in the event of a long-term power outage, so I will provide an answer at a later date.
- Regarding securing the power supply itself, the city hall main office, fire department headquarters, fire department branch office, and city hospital each have their own in-house power generation facilities.
・Actually, many local governments have in-house power generation equipment, but in the event of an emergency, they don't have much fuel stocked, so even during the Great East Japan Earthquake, gas stations closed or ran out of stock. Something happened.
・Based on these lessons, Inagi City significantly increased its fuel stockpiles. The fire station has an underground tank that stores gasoline and diesel oil. A large-scale tank was added to the city hospital, and a large-scale tank was also installed at the Kamihirao Fire Department.
・Please be assured that we have enough fuel to operate for approximately 14 days.
[Take-home survey] What to do in the event of a power outage for the city's disaster prevention administrative radio system - As a countermeasure for power outages for the disaster prevention administrative radio system, the base station for the disaster prevention administrative radio system will operate for up to 20 hours using an emergency storage battery, in addition to operating with the main government building's private power generation equipment. operation is possible.
・In addition, the slave station speakers installed throughout the city can be charged during the day using solar power and can operate for up to 72 hours using storage batteries.
[About information transmission during disasters]
In Chiba, there was a long-term power outage, and disaster prevention radios and mobile phones were not working, so it was said that there were many municipalities where it was impossible to make calls without receiving contact from the city, and it was impossible to exchange information at all.
There are concerns about information transmission during disasters.

・I heard that the areas in Chiba Prefecture where information is cut off and isolated are particularly in the mountainous areas in the southern part of the prefecture, but since Inagi City is a small town, employees can run around and deliver information. It is unlikely that we will be left alone and without help for several days.
・Even if there is a large-scale disaster and communications are cut off, we have secured various alternative measures at the evacuation center so that if you go to the evacuation center, you will be able to communicate with city hall or the outside world in some way. ing.
-One is that we have an agreement with NTT to place black disaster telephones at each evacuation center. Since it is a black telephone, it does not require a power source and can be used as long as the telephone line is connected, and is placed at all evacuation centers.
・We have also installed a digital radio called MCA radio that connects to the city's disaster prevention department, so that even if all telephone lines are cut off and calls cannot be made, the city hall and the evacuation center can communicate. There is.
・If the power is cut off for a long period of time, the battery of a mobile phone will run out and it will become unusable, but we also provide an ``email delivery service'' that sends information to mobile phones. The email distribution service broadcasts the same content as that broadcast on the disaster prevention administrative radio, so if you have not yet registered, please do so.

[About wind damage measures]
This time, the strong winds caused damage in Chiba, including cutting down elevated wires and toppling power transmission towers. Does the city take measures to prevent wind disasters, such as estimating the damage caused by storms and determining how long the city can withstand winds?
・I don't know the exact figures, but I've heard that road signs and billboards are designed to withstand wind speeds of around 30 m/s.
・However, recently, wind speeds exceeding the expected wind speed have been increasing, and this time, in Chiba Prefecture, wind speeds of nearly 60 m/s were generated locally, causing damage to utility poles that were snapped in the middle. It would be impossible to build something so that it would not be blown away, and I think it would be physically difficult to prevent damage to the structure.
・When it comes to electric cables, it is said that the only solution is to put them underground and not expose them to the surface, but in fact Inagi has eliminated the use of utility poles, which means that the underground ratio is over 20%. Although there are no official statistics, I think it is among the top in Japan.
・The rate of no utility poles is 100% in major cities around the world, such as New York, London, Paris, and Singapore, and Japan has a low rate of no utility poles. However, since it costs a lot of money, there is debate over who should pay for it. The national average rate of removal of utility poles is 2%, in Tokyo's 23 wards, which are relatively advanced, it is around 7%, and in Inagi it is extremely high at 20%. Inagi City developed a new town during the bubble period, and spent a lot of money to make it a gorgeous town. Koyodai, Nagamine, and Wakabadai all adopted the common electric cable ditch system. There are various ways to eliminate utility poles, but the most expensive of them is the common cable ditch method. It is fully equipped with all high power, low power, and communication lines buried underground.
・In the land readjustment that is currently underway, thick utility poles along arterial roads can be a problem in the event of a disaster, so they are being moved underground. For example, in the Kamihirao land readjustment, the areas along arterial roads will be underground. Land readjustment is also underway in Minamiyama, but the main line from Inagi Station to Minamiyama Elementary School will be underground.
・Furthermore, we would like to work on the details while using subsidies from the Tokyo metropolitan government as much as possible. Most recently, there are plans to use subsidies to remove utility poles from the U-shaped area at the south exit of Minamitama Station.
[About loophole measures in residential areas]
The Daimaru Irrigation Canal has been renovated and the road has become wider and cleaner, but it has become a loophole for cars. The road is also used as an elementary school route, and the situation is dangerous.
(Near Daimaru Hikari Mansion)
・The location of your comment is on a street that serves as a route to school.
・Perhaps there are few signs clearly indicating that this is the route to school. We conduct school route inspections every year, so we report this to the relevant department.

[About mowing]
Although the neighborhood association is mowing the grass, there are places along the roadside where the grass is not mowed. Even when I walk around, there are many places where there is a lot of grass, so I wonder if there is something I can do to improve it.

・In addition to mowing the grass, we have received a variety of opinions such as pruning street trees and cleaning fallen leaves. Inagi has a lot of greenery, and preserving the greenery costs a lot of money, so we are taking measures at the right time.
・Due to budget constraints, it is impossible to handle everything in a timely manner, but when it comes to pruning street trees, we listen to experts' opinions on the timing of pruning depending on the type of tree before placing an order with a contractor. I get a lot of opinions about cutting branches and feeling sorry for them, but I listen to the opinions of experts and do the pruning at the most appropriate time.
・If we clean fallen leaves before they have completely fallen, we will have to clean them again and it will be expensive, so we deal with it after a certain amount of fallen leaves have fallen.
- Grass mowing is also carried out according to the appropriate schedule. In some cases, the timing may be off and the grass is thick, or even if a report is received, the location is private land rather than a city road or park. Regarding mowing, if the grass is overgrown and dangerous, please contact the city management department. If the land is privately owned, we will instruct the land owner to cut the grass.
Contents of question Answer
[About street lights]
In the explanation of this year's city project, there was a mention of ``changing street lights to LED'', but old mercury lamps have problems with pollution. How many mercury lamps are there?
・Based on the lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake, the city immediately replaced all security lights (lights attached halfway up telephone poles) with LED lights immediately after the disaster. After that, almost all the park lights were replaced with LED lights. What remained were street lights, which come in many different types and are expensive.
・I think the target was 4,000 street lights, but we are moving forward with replacing them with LEDs in order to replace them all at once. We are working on this because our electricity bill will be reduced to about 1/3rd, which will save us electricity and reduce our expenses.
・As for mercury lamps, I don't think there are many places that use mercury lamps for street lights. Although some are used for lighting in gymnasiums, I don't think mercury lamps are used today.
[About security cameras]
Security cameras are being installed in some places, but if the street lights are turned on and brightened up, people can walk around with peace of mind, so I would like to know how much cameras are planned to be installed.
・In the past, there were calls from local people and human eyes to watch over the area. I think it would be ideal to be able to maintain safety through connections between people, but on the other hand, there are places where it is dark at night and there are no people around, and exhibitionism and molesters are on the rise in these places. began efforts to install security cameras.
・Security cameras were first installed by the Street Security Camera Installation Council within the jurisdiction of Tama Chuo Police Station, which was installed using donations from private companies.
- Since then, using a subsidy from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, security cameras have been installed on each elementary school's route to school.
・Additionally, there have been a number of incidents in which fires have been set in areas where people are not allowed to go in the park, and there is no way to prevent them, so several security cameras have been installed in areas where people are being targeted. As a result, the number of security cameras installed using public funds has been gradually increased.
-However, there is an opinion that security cameras are an invasion of privacy, so consideration must be taken of course. In the city, when installing security cameras on the streets, the city does not install security cameras unless the council consults with the Personal Information Protection Council, establishes rules for the protection of personal information, or there are special circumstances such as a request from the police to investigate a crime. We are working on rules such as not backing up.
-On the other hand, recently, security cameras have been installed everywhere, including convenience stores, entrances to apartments, and private homes, and the number of cameras has increased considerably, including the number in the private sector.
・Since there is a limit to installing them at all necessary locations within the city using public funds, we have started a new system this fiscal year. This is a system in which the city subsidizes a portion of the cost if each neighborhood association wants to install security cameras. If the Daimaru Neighborhood Association needs to set up a place in the future, please use this subsidy system.

[About foreign residents]
There is a property in the neighborhood where foreigners live in groups, causing problems such as loud noise and people not following the rules for taking out the garbage. Also, on holidays, many people who appear to be friends on bicycles gather together, and when they do so, their bicycles are parked largely on the sidewalk, obstructing traffic.
I'm having trouble and don't know where to turn for advice. Is it possible for the government to provide some guidance?

・First of all, please consult with the relevant department. If you are concerned about the improper way of disposing of garbage, please contact the Environment Division, or if you are experiencing noise, please contact the police.
・What will happen in the future is that the Immigration Control and Refugee Act has been revised, and those who were previously only allowed to enter as trainees will now be accepted as regular workers. However, although the national government has decided on a policy to expand the acceptance of foreigners, the attitude is that the future aspects of the lives of foreigners should be handled by municipalities, so the National Association of Mayors believes that if local governments handle the situation, human resources A system of goods and money is necessary, and we are making strict requests to the government to take this point into account.
・Inagi City has a very small number of foreign residents, and I thought that problems like the one you mentioned would not occur for a while, but now that I have heard your story, I feel that the city needs to take measures.
・As for how to dispose of garbage, all new residents go through the resident registration procedures at the Citizen's Division counter, and at that time, they are given a garbage calendar with information in English, Chinese, and Korean. However, the details have not been published yet. Since there are limits to responding on paper, for example, the city's homepage has an automatic translation function and is available in five languages, so we will continue to research ways to make announcements that utilize this function. I want to go there.
[About kindergarten]
There are two kindergartens in the city, and I would like to hear the mayor's thoughts on kindergarten education.

・Historically, Inagi has not built public kindergartens. Inagi was once a rural area, and there was a time when children were supervised at home or at a temple. Then the first phase of urbanization began, and as family environments changed, there was a need for a place to leave children. At that time, it was still Inagi Village, and I heard that the village hall did not have the financial resources to build a kindergarten, so they asked a local landowner to start one.
-On the other hand, the government has to fulfill its responsibility for nursery schools, where children are taken care of as part of a social welfare project, and the idea has been that kindergartens should be privately run while nursery schools should be public.
・However, the unification of kindergartens and nursery schools started here, and although kindergartens and daycare centers used to have completely different systems, they have become more common, although this has not reached the level of unification. As parents have many different ways of working, I think the boundaries between what constitutes a kindergarten and what constitutes a nursery school are beginning to fade. The city has been encouraging private kindergartens to transition to the new system of certified kindergartens. However, since private schools have different management philosophies and educational philosophies, the city cannot force them to do so. If you transfer your child to an accredited nursery school under the new system, you will receive a private school subsidy, and at a kindergarten, you will have to pay a fixed fee in the form of a monthly fee, which puts a heavy burden on parents. If children transition to a certified nursery school, the burden will be based on their income, just like a nursery school, and we have been lobbying for a transition to this new system to address systemic issues.
・However, with the sudden start of a system for making early childhood education and childcare free of charge, the same playing field will be applied to the burden of tuition fees to a certain extent, and I wonder if this will become a problem in the future. Although there are still issues to be solved in order to unify childcare and nursery schools, we believe that it is necessary to increase the menu of various types of childcare support.

Nowadays, there are many households where both parents work and leave their children alone during the day. I think it would be good for families to have mothers and fathers in their homes like in the past. In addition to nursery schools, shouldn't consideration be given to urban development where people are present during the day?
The boundaries between kindergartens and nursery schools are disappearing, and the content of education is certainly similar, but I would like to see support for both without neglecting them.

・One example of child-rearing support that I found interesting after hearing about Setagaya Ward's initiatives: Parents have voiced opinions such as, "I don't want to put my child in a nursery school, but kindergartens don't offer enough services. I have no other choice, so I put my child in a nursery school," "Sometimes I want to put my child in a nursery school, but sometimes I can do it myself," and "When you raise a child alone, you end up feeling isolated and burdened."
In order to meet these needs, Setagaya Ward is working to expand the "Play Area" run by the Inagi City Child and Family Support Center. The idea is that by increasing the number of places where children can gather from time to time, it may be possible to reduce the number of children on waiting lists for daycare centers, and it may be possible to avoid increasing the number of licensed daycare centers more than necessary.
・We would like to use this as a reference in Inagi and consider it in the next stage, but building a building and implementing it would require a large amount of cost. Currently, the only permanent play area is the annex of Koyodai Elementary School, but can we use other vacant facilities? For example, can we implement a "mobile play area" by utilizing the vacant hours of a cultural center or a children's center? There are several places that we have in mind. If there are several play areas, mothers can take a break from time to time, and we also think that increasing the number of places where everyone can raise their children together is important as a child-rearing support measure.
・As a city, we have no intention of blindly increasing the number of licensed daycare centers. Currently, the need for daycare centers is very strong, and it is true that we are making this a top priority, but I think that in the future, when licensed daycare centers are established in Daimaru, Yanokuchi, and Odara, the need will probably ease. So, how much we can meet the need for licensed daycare centers, I feel that we are at the stage where we should stop and start working on different support measures.

[About empty house measures]
Vacant houses are becoming more prominent in the old city area. What are your thoughts on measures against vacant houses?

・The problem of vacant houses has now become a social issue. One local government in the Tama area reportedly spent 20 million yen to investigate where vacant houses are located.
・As for Inagi, we are not in a position to spend money investigating it. In fact, the population is increasing and more people are looking for homes.
・Because no one lives in the house, people consult about it as a vacant house, but vacant houses can be classified into several types. One is an uninhabited house where no one lives but is managed. One is the property inventory of a real estate agent. The other type is designated vacant houses, and the current issue is "specified vacant houses." It is a vacant house that has been poorly maintained and has overgrown trees, causing a nuisance to the neighborhood.
・This can go so far as to ask the owner, such as a landowner or landlord, to properly manage the property, but if the owner fails to do so, the last resort is called administrative agency execution, in which the government demolishes the property in place of the owner. The method is to charge the cost. Strictly speaking, we believe that there are zero specific vacant houses in the city. However, we are aware of several situations that are similar to this, and we believe this is an issue for the future.

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