No. 45 Appointed chairman of the Special Committee on Waste Disposal Measures

(Published in the August 15, 2015 issue of Inagi Newsletter)

Currently, there are 813 cities (including special wards) across the country, and there is an organization called the National Association of Mayors, to which all mayors and heads of wards belong. Due to the revision of the Local Autonomy Act in 1963, this organization became a national federation of mayors and submitted to the Minister of Home Affairs (currently the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications). In addition to conducting research and research on local administration and finance, it also serves as a point of contact for discussions between the national and local governments in cooperation with prefectural governors' associations, town and village associations, prefectural chairpersons' meetings, city council chairs, and town and village assembly chairmen's meetings. I am.
Because the organization is too large to operate as a national organization on a daily basis, there are branch offices in block units as subordinate organizations. Tokyo belongs to the Kanto branch, and its constituent organizations are mayors' associations in each prefecture.
This year, unified local elections were held, and personnel changes to various positions were carried out on a large scale. At the general meeting of the Tokyo Metropolitan Association on April 28, 2015, I was elected to the National Association of Mayors' Special Committee on Waste Disposal Measures, taking over from my predecessor, Mayor Machida. It was my first experience being elected as a member of the National Association of Mayors, so I braced myself for the first meeting on June 9, 2015, and was handed the baton by the chairman of the committee, the mayor of Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido. I did.
To be honest, I was hesitant to take on the role of chairperson as I am still in my second term as a newbie, but I was able to draw on my experience working on waste and recycling issues as the manager of the Tamagawa Sanitation Association on a daily basis. I am determined to fulfill this heavy responsibility.
In conjunction with his appointment as chairperson, he has been appointed as a member of the Policy Promotion Committee of the National Association of Mayors, as well as serving as a director on the board of directors, a councilor on the board of councilors, a member of the social, cultural and educational committee, and a member of the committee on countermeasures against the declining birthrate. I will also be appointed as a member of the study group on childcare support, so it looks like I will be even busier.
At the same time, I was appointed as a member of the Ministry of the Environment's Central Environment Council, and I am now a member of the Comprehensive Policy Committee and the Recycling-based Society Committee.
Nowadays, "sustainability" is a keyword in various administrative fields, and the goal of creating a recycling-oriented society is not limited to environmental issues.
I will do my best to utilize my newly appointed positions and my future experiences to contribute to the development of Inagi City.