Daimaru District Hall (Daimaru District)

・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 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.

[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?

・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.

・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.

・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.