Beth: His Excellency the Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing, Mr. Majid bin Abdullah Al-Hogail, was briefed at the headquarters of the Eastern Province Secretariat today, on the plans and works of the Eastern Province Municipality in implementing the transformation strategy, "in the presence of His Excellency the Secretary of the Eastern Province, Engineer Fahd bin Muhammad Al-Jubeir, and His Excellency the Undersecretary for Licensing and Compliance and the General Supervisor of Supporting and empowering the secretariats, Eng. Abdullah bin Saeed, and a team from the ministry, agents, heads of municipalities, and a number of leaders of the secretariat, at the secretariat’s headquarters.

For his part, His Excellency the Mayor of the Eastern Region welcomed His Excellency the Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing and the accompanying delegation, stressing the importance of the Ministry’s support for all the Municipality’s projects and initiatives. municipality and achieve beneficiary satisfaction.

The meeting began with the Minister's review of the municipal sector strategy and its impact on infrastructure development. In line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, which aims to activate the role of partnership with the private sector, and increase municipal revenues through performance indicators that reflect the implementation of the strategy, that the municipal sector is able to provide infrastructure coverage by 90%, the level of beneficiary’s satisfaction with the cleanliness of cities is 95%, and the satisfaction rate is 95%. Estimated 90% of municipal services

The secretariat's efforts in providing an incubating and encouraging investment environment were also presented. for infrastructure development.

Subsequently, the experience of the secretariat in applying the spending efficiency methodology to increase the secretariat's revenues with respect to the secretariat's financial sector and transformation on an accrual basis was reviewed. The mechanisms for developing the operational sector in the secretariat represented by the secretariat system for hygiene control work and their impact on increasing the level of beneficiary’s satisfaction with the quality of cleanliness of cities in the region were also discussed, and the goals of the secretariat for the triple treatment of sewage were discussed, and the secretariat reviewed its experience in several initiatives, the most important of which is “Combating the phenomenon of littering Food”, “Sea without Plastic” and “Combating the Phenomenon of Throwing Food” through awareness messages.

The meeting concluded with a reference to the communications center and the statistics of incoming, processed and closed communications, and the mechanism for linking them electronically, in addition to automating information and digital transformation, and noting the number of transactions that have been electronically transferred since the start of the electronic transaction system.

After that, His Excellency the Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing toured the development projects in the waterfronts in Dammam and Al-Khobar, and reviewed the investment projects put forward by the Municipality, as well as the development projects of road intersections implemented by the Municipality, in addition to the roundabouts implemented by the Municipality in partnership with the private sector. His Excellency listened to a detailed explanation of Current and future projects implemented by His Excellency the Mayor of the Eastern Province.

Minister Al-Hogail honored a number of the secretariat’s leaders and employees for their active efforts that contributed to the achievement of many achievements at the level of the various programs and initiatives of the secretariat, praising them for their efforts and stressing the need to continue providing more to serve the citizen and resident and improve the quality of services provided to them.