Aspekti Publìčnogo Upravlìnnâ (Apr 2019)
The subject scale of municipal management extension
Abstract
Proceeding from the fact that the reform of local self-government, the creation of amalgamated territorial communities impose certain requirements for management at the local level, which is possible, taking into account current trends and management practices as a special kind of professional activity aimed at achieving certain goals, the expediency of expanding the subject area of municipal management in the conditions of decentralization and formation of amalgamated territorial communities is substantiated. It has been determined that despite a wide range of scientific researches on this issue, there are many aspects that require further elaboration, in particular, clarification of the concept of «municipal management» in the context of expanding its domain from the basic level of local self-government (village, town, city). Approaches to the definition of the category «municipal management» by domestic researchers are considered. It’s noted that the authors consider it as a specific type of management in the field of local self-government, which can be correctly implemented at the level of a separate municipal entity considered as a specific system-organization, using management-specific «micromethods» of management activity. The emphasis is placed on the fact that, for the level of united territorial communities, the governing body is the village (town, city) council, which, within its authority, will deal with the same issues as it did before the community was united. In particular, the council of the newly formed amalgamated territorial community will accept and make changes to the local budget, will take care of communal property, will take care of the development of the territories included in the amalgamated community, will consent to the placement of new objects on the territory of the community, will fix local taxes and fees. Thus, all significant features of a municipality are available: territorial, infrastructure and resource unity; industrial and operational unity for providing communal and other municipal services; social and objective unity expressed in the presence of common goals regarding the level and quality of life, common territorial interests; the existence of a unified system of municipal management. The above arguments lead to expediency and indicate in favor of the correctness of the term «municipal management» application for the characterization of the system of innovative management relations in the amalgamated territorial communities.
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