New orientation on the number of commune-level leadership positions after arrangement and merger

The Steering Committee for the arrangement of administrative units at all levels and the development of a model for organizing local government at 2 levels (Steering Committee) has just issued Official Letter 03 to localities on orientation for some tasks of arranging administrative units (ADUs) and organizing local government at 2 levels; on the organization of the apparatus, cadres, civil servants and public employees when implementing the arrangement.

According to the direction of the Steering Committee, the local government at the commune level after the arrangement and merger includes the People's Council and the People's Committee. In which, the People's Councils at the commune level established 2 committees, the Legal Committee and the Socio-Economic Committee.

Commune-level People's Committees establish a maximum of 4 departments and equivalents suitable for urban, rural and island characteristics, including: People's Council and People's Committee Office; Economic Department (for communes, special zones) or Economic, Infrastructure and Urban Affairs Department (for wards and special zones of Phu Quoc); Department of Culture - Social Affairs; Public Administration Service Center (determined as another administrative organization under the People's Committee at the commune level).

In case the specialized departments under the People's Committees at the commune level are not organized, the Provincial People's Committees will decide to increase the number of cadres and civil servants at the commune level compared to the current number to perform new tasks transferred from the district level.

The number of staff is expected to not exceed 40 cadres and civil servants, focusing on civil servants directly in charge of the fields of Party building work, the work of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations, and government work.

For island districts and island cities with commune-level administrative units under their management, when implementing the arrangement into special zones, the operation of commune-level administrative units and the number of specialized agencies of island districts and island cities will be maintained as at present; then implemented according to the new instructions of the Government.

Regarding the number of leadership positions after the arrangement, the Steering Committee recommends that localities implement as follows:

- Leaders of the People's Council at the commune level include Chairman (current title) and 1 Vice Chairman (professional title).

- The leaders of the People's Committee at the commune level include the Chairman (specialized title) and 2 Vice Chairmen (1 Vice Chairman concurrently holding the position of Chief of Office of the People's Council and People's Committee; 1 Vice Chairman concurrently holding the position of Director of the Public Administration Service Center).

The People's Council's committees include the Head of the Committee (contingue title) and 1 Deputy Head of the Committee (professional title).

The departments and equivalents of the People's Committee have a Head of the Department (specialized title or appointed by the Vice Chairman of the People's Committee) and 1 deputy head (specialized title).

For cases where commune-level administrative units remain unchanged (not reorganized) and do not organize specialized departments, the number of Vice Chairmen of commune-level People's Committees can be arranged to increase by 1 Vice Chairman to ensure the leadership and management role of the government in serving people and businesses.

The Steering Committee assigns localities, based on requirements and tasks, to proactively arrange and assign the use of concurrent leaders or reduce deputy heads of specialized departments and offices to increase the number of civil servants working directly to meet the requirements of serving people of the new commune-level administrative units.

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