Pattaya officials continued work on the city’s development plans for the next three, five and 10 years.
City Manager Pakorn Sukhonthachat chaired a May 14 meeting organized to take comments from internal city departments on public-development projects to compile into the plans that later will be debated by the city council.
The Ministry of Interior requires Pattaya to draft three-, five-, and 10-year plans in order to provide a vision of public development. Currently, these plans must also conform to the wishes of the National Council for Peace and Order, which is requiring strategic plans adhere to the royal “sufficiency economy” philosophy and regulations by the National Economic and Social Development.
City Manager Pakorn Sukhonthachat chairs a meeting organized to take comments from internal city departments on public-development projects.
Pattaya last year introduced a convoluted strategy for development it calls “five posts, seven plans, 13 strategies and four policies”.
According to earlier statistics, Pattaya has progressed in public works 50 percent in three years and an additional 39.1 percent in five years. The public works can be seen in general public improvements in Pattaya’s road works, landscape and utilities.
The latest workshop heard from civil servants and bureaucrats from various departments and offices.
Topics covered were the city’s basic electrical infrastructure, including cables and wires; the closed-circuit television camera network; public health facilities and services; services provided to the disabled; information-technology; waste disposal, flood management, tourism promotion, and security.
The information collected will be used in future subcommittee meetings between the government and private sector.
