{"id":4066,"date":"2021-03-06T05:09:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T04:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomaszdomanski.eu\/en\/?page_id=4066"},"modified":"2023-05-02T00:46:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T22:46:40","slug":"strategy-of-zgierz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tomaszdomanski.eu\/en\/strategy-of-zgierz\/","title":{"rendered":"Portfolio | Strategy of Zgierz"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The “Strategy for the development of the city of Zgierz” was the first plan of this type in Poland. It was developed as part of a pilot project in the field of strategic management of the municipality, implemented as part of the\u00a0Municipal Development and Capacity Building program, run by the Municipal Development Agency in Warsaw. Its content was contained in two complementary planning documents: “Development strategy of the city of Zgierz” and “Study of conditions and directions of spatial development of the city of Zgierz”. The goals of social and economic development included in the “Strategy” were placed in the urban space described in the “Study”, because most of them were related to the implementation of public investments.<\/p>

My participation in the creation of Zgierz’s development strategy was of a double nature. On the one hand, I acted as the author of the methodology and manager of the strategic management program for the municipality on the side of the Municipal Development Agency; and on the other – as the representative of the City of Zgierz, responsible for carrying out a pilot project in this city. Zgierz was selected to implement this methodology by USIAD, in cooperation with the Municipal Development Agency.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The first years of functioning of the reborn local government were spent on removing the negative effects of the deep crisis of the state, creating new structures of local authority and administration, stabilizing public finances and implementing the most urgent infrastructural investments. After decades of rule by the “people’s” power, the institutions of independent local government were forgotten and widely unknown. Modern management methods in public administration, focused on rational management of public finances and communal property, have gone into oblivion.<\/p>

The independence gained by local self-government communities was associated with the need to implement professional methods of municipal management, similar to those used in companies operating in a market economy and in American and Western European local government units. In Poland, it became possible only in the second half of the 1990s.<\/p>

Similarly to enterprises, the essence of efficient management of a citi is to obtain the maximum effect from the smallest possible outlay (return on invested capital). The difference, however, is that the municipality is about the best and cheapest possible satisfaction of the collective needs of the inhabitants, and not about financial profit.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The development of a long-term, strategic plan for the development of the city was initiated by the City Council of Zgierz on June 27, 1996 with two resolutions on the commencement of work on the local development strategy and the study of the conditions and directions of the city’s spatial development. The implementation of both resolutions was correlated with each other in terms of content and procedure, in accordance with the methodology developed under the Municipal Development and Capacity Building programme. The main task of the city’s development strategy was to set the goals of social and economic development over the next several years. The study was to determine the spatial conditions of their implementation. Most of the city’s development goals were achieved through investment transformation of areas, in accordance with the directives of the city’s spatial development policy.<\/p>

The motives that prompted the city authorities to start work on the long-term development plan were as follows:<\/p>