Encyklopedia Administracji Publicznej MW Pivot Skin

MUNICIPALITY’S TASKS – public tasks of a local nature, aimed at satisfying collective needs of the community. The municipality is the basic unit of local government and its task is to perform all tasks of local government not reserved for other units of that local government (it is entitled to presumption of competence in public matters of local significance). The mun.t. include the following groups: 1. tasks within the scope of technical infrastructure, 2. tasks within the scope of social infrastructure, 3. a package comprising citizens’ security and public order, 4. a package comprising spatial order, environmental protection, 5. a package comprising municipality promotion and promotion of the idea of local government. The particular mentioned groups of mun.t. include in particular: 1. management of municipal roads, streets, bridges and road traffic organisation, waterways and water supply, sewerage – removal and treatment of municipal wastewater, maintenance of cleanliness and order and sanitation, garbage dumps and municipal waste, marketplaces and market halls, electricity and heat supply as well as gas, local collective transport; 2. health protection – provision of basic medical care, pro-family policy, including providing social, medical and legal care for pregnant women, assistance to large families, public education – construction, maintenance and renovation as well as refurbishment of nurseries, kindergartens and primary and secondary schools, gymnastic rooms and sports fields, culture and physical culture – maintenance of municipal libraries and other cultural institutions and protection of monuments and care of monuments, maintenance of recreational areas, bicycle paths, sports facilities, playgrounds, care centres and care facilities, municipal housing construction; 3. fire and flood protection, security of municipal facilities and public utilities as well as administrative facilities, obligation to cooperate with the police; 4. municipal greenery and tree stands, spatial development plan; 5. functioning (optionally) of the municipal youth council, promotion of the municipality, cooperation with non-governmental organisations (→ public tasks) [ E. Szulc-Wałecka ].

Literature: B. Dolnicki, Samorząd terytorialny [Local government], Warszawa 2009 ■ M. Kulesza, H. Izdebski, Administracja publiczna: zagadnienia ogólne [Public administration: general issues], Warszawa 2004