Beth: His Excellency the Mayor of the Eastern Region, today, Thursday, 2/2/1443 AH, on the achievements of the Eastern Region Municipality in improving the urban landscape, with the General Supervisor of the Department of Support and Empowerment of Secretariats at the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing, Eng. Abdullah bin Saeed, in the presence of the Undersecretary for Reconstruction and Projects, Eng. Mazen bin Adel Bakharji, Under-Secretary-General for Projects, Engineer Shafi Al-Khalidi, General Manager of the Portfolio of Support and Empowerment of the Eastern Region Municipalities, Engineer Wael Al-Mulla, Manager of the Eastern Region Municipalities Relationship, Eng. Muhammad Al-Mazyed, and Director of the Riyadh Municipality Portfolio Mr. Turki Al-Thubaiti, and a number of the Municipality’s leaders and mayors.

This came during the meeting held by His Excellency, at the headquarters of the Agency for Reconstruction and Projects, where the governance framework in the Municipality was discussed, through the establishment of the visual distortion treatment operations room (directive level - executive level), the adoption of the executive plan to do business, the formation of operations rooms in municipalities, and teams Field follow-up work, as indicated for daily and weekly meetings, periodic reports, monitoring and inventory mechanism, which is through digital imaging equipment, visual distortion reports 940, field teams, and the Shaghaf initiative.

His Excellency also reviewed the indicators for measuring the seventh week since the start of the plan, through which he referred to the modern techniques of monitoring and treatment, which is the Jetpatcher equipment for treating street potholes, which has the advantages of speed in the maintenance of potholes, as it does not need to close the roads for a long time, and the maintenance period takes The hole is 2-4 minutes, easy and simple to handle, and does not require a complete closure of the roads, in addition to monitoring the elements of optical distortion using high-tech scanning equipment, which can scan more than 200 linear kilometers in one day, and is sufficient to treat between 500 and 600 square meters inside neighborhoods, to monitor the manifestations of deformation and send their coordinates to the operating room, in addition to the equipment for water-cleaning traffic paints, re-painting, the pavement repair equipment (concrete curbs), and materials for backfilling pits and backfilling around the manholes using the Eastern mixture. Urban landscape treatments for all municipalities. 

After that, His Excellency reviewed the Operations Room and the Crisis and Risks Center, which was established to coordinate and unify efforts and capabilities to confront any crises or disasters that may occur in the eastern region - God forbid - and to manage and confront these crises efficiently and effectively. Traffic safety, traffic electronic panels control system, geographical explorer for the eastern region of critical sites, rain drainage system assessment system, the system for introducing disaster response plans for municipalities, and indicators for addressing and improving the urban landscape.

His Excellency referred to the mechanism for managing and following up on visual deformation works, which would follow up and implement direct supervision of the rainwater drainage plan, through mobile equipment to drain rainwater and enter the damaged sites that may occur as a result of the high level of rainwater, which operates 24 hours a day and has a capacity For dewatering 720 cubic meters per hour, lowering the groundwater level in the eastern region, conducting hypotheses and exercises to raise the efficiency of the Secretariat’s employees, and following up on projects, in addition to managing the seasons of the eastern region with regard to the work of the Safety and Quality Committee.

Reports issued to the Optical Deformation Operations Room revealed the elements of optical distortion for the use of digital imaging equipment for the roadside and roughness measurement, as 98 axes were targeted at the level of 18 municipalities for a road area of ​​437 km, and road lengths of more than 11 million square meters, and more than 17,5088 photos were taken during Monitoring phase of the target axis and monitoring 3,762 violations of the visual distortion elements.

The number of reports issued by the Operations Room for the treatment of visual distortion since the launch of the program has reached 12,624, within 65 days, which were processed. The last five of this month, which targeted the elements of deformation, most notably the re-treatment of lighting, road maintenance, public service networks, and cleaning.

After that, His Excellency and the accompanying delegation toured a field tour, during which he was briefed on the workflow of high-tech mechanisms and equipment, in a number of sites in the capital of Dammam. Abdul Aziz and Prince Muhammad bin Fahd Road in Dammam, after which the tour continued on Prince Sultan Road, Tariq bin Ziyad Street and Saad bin Abi Waqas Street in Dhahran. And a number of streets in the city of Dhahran, where the Mayor of Dhahran, Engineer Muhammad Al-Jassem, reviewed the most important elements that took place in these streets and neighborhoods. Within the neighborhoods, then His Excellency the Mayor of the Eastern Province, and the General Supervisor of the Department of Support and Empowerment of Trusts in the Ministry, moved to Al-Khobar Governorate, where the Mayor of Al-Khobar Governorate, Eng. Sultan Al-Za My hand, an explanation of the work of treating the elements of visual distortion, on Prince Faisal bin Fahd Road and Prince Turki Street in Al-Khobar Governorate, during which they were briefed on various models of improving the urban landscape and the sites that were treated, as they toured some neighborhoods and projects that are compatible with the programs The quality of life, and the humanization of cities, in addition to some successful models within the governorate.