Background

The Trakya Regional Association of Municipalities issued a phonebook for the second time. The first phonebook was published in 1999 and the circulation ran out very quickly, which is an illustration of how useful this publication is and of the great interest on behalf of the member municipalities and their citizens.

Practice

The Association s member municipalities are united by their location and common interest in economic development. Daily, the employees of different municipalities need to get in touch with their counterparts to cooperate on solving different cases or to work on joint projects and programs. The administrative phonebook is a timely response to municipal employees need to have detailed contact information about their counterparts in other municipalities.

The second edition of the administrative phonebook contains information about the new structures within the municipal administrations and the new job positions. The information was collected in cooperation with member municipalities. Each municipality had the freedom to decide in what format to present the information and which phone numbers to provide. The phonebook also lists the numbers of the mayors and the mayor s representatives in the smaller communities within every municipality. The direct lines of the mayors of municipalities are listed in a table.

The publication of the administrative phonebook was funded by the Association with its own funds. The phonebook is available not only to the municipal employees of the Association s member municipalities but also to NGOs, cultural and educational institutions, local businesses, media and citizens.

Results


The administrative phonebook of the municipalities - members of the Trakya Regional Association of Municipalities is a unique local publication which offers detailed information about the new municipal structures as well as contact information for specific municipal employees in 25 municipalities (the phonebook was printed when the Municipality of Karlovo was not a member of the Association). The publication:
enriches readers knowledge about the structure of the municipal administrations in consistency with the new legislative requirements;
improves communications between the individual municipalities;
provides an opportunity for the citizens to contact key persons within the municipal administrations.