The district contract and participation

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The municipality has 9 months to establish a program. At the end:

• It will quickly convene a general assembly open to all local residents. They will be invited by mail, posters or even orally by people in charge of the district contracts. During this meeting, the inhabitants can apply to be appointed as representatives of the district to the CLDI (Local Commission for Integrated Development), which contains at least 8 inhabitants, as well as 2 persons stemming from economic, school and associative branches
• It will set up the CLDI and clarify its functioning in a regulation of internal order
• It will organize a public inquiry

The General district assembly

The assembly has to allow the municipality to inform local residents on the program and to start a dialogue with them. It also has to allow the inhabitants to appoint their representatives to the CLDI.

During the duration of the elaboration of the program, the municipality will summon at least 3 assemblies. The general district assemblies are open to all. They are a place of information, questioning and discussion between the municipality, the Region, the various operators who implement the program and the inhabitants.

The Local Commission for Integrated Development (CLDI)

The CLDI assures a regular follow-up of the elaboration of the program. It is a place of information and dialogue between the various representatives.

The CLDI consists of:

• Representatives of the municipal, regional and community authorities
• Representatives of the local residents and the associative, school and economic world, appointed directly by the General district assembly
• 1 representative by operator in charge of the implementation of one or several projects

During this period of elaboration of the program, the CLDI will give its opinion on the basic study and the project. It will meet at least 3 times.

The composition of the CLDI

• 8 representatives of the local residents
• 2 representatives of the associative, school or economic world of the district
• 3 representatives of the municipality
• 1 representative of the CPAS
• 1 representative of the Local Mission
• 1 representative of OOTB (Overleg Opleidings en Tewerkstellings Projecten Brussel), if it leads a work of social and occupational insertion in the district
• 2 representatives of the Brussels Capital-Region
• 1 representative of the COCOF, French Community Committee
• 1 representative of the VGC, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
• 2 representatives appointed by the Housing Network + 1 representative for every operator in charge of the implementation of the program.

The public inquiry

After approval by the CLDI and after being presented to the General district assembly, the project is subjected, during 15 days at least, to a public inquiry organized by the Municipality. Red posters announcing the public inquiry are placed at various places of the district. During this period, every interested person can consult the project in the Town Planning Department of the Municipality and either announce in writing his remarks or questions to be heard by the Consultation Committee.

The Consultation Committee examines the remarks formulated during the public inquiry and invites every person wishing to be heard before giving its opinion. This Committee examines the development projects of public places and the construction / restoration projects of buildings from the point of view of their 'physical' impact on the district. It is thus a committee with representatives from the public institutions, different from the CLDI.

Authorities represented at the Consultation Committee are:

• The municipality
• The Brussels Capital-Region (Town planning service and Monuments and Sites Service)
• The Brussels Institute of Management of the Environment (IBGE)
• The Regional Company of Development of Brussels (SDRB).

This committee hears all the persons concerned by a project (the author of the project, the local residents) before giving its opinion.

After these 3 steps, the project is approved by the city council. It is then subjected to analysis by the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region. The project will become a real program only after being approved by the regional Government.

The program takes 4 years (increased by 2 years to end the last construction sites). The implementation of social and economic initiatives is limited to the period of 4 years.

The CLDI (Local Commission for Integrated Development) follows the progress of the various actions: initiatives for acquisitions, signings of contracts for the realization of the works, control of the conditions for housing access,...

This CLDI meets at least 8 times a year. The representatives of the inhabitants, the economic, school and associative world thus have to inform the persons in the district of every action.

The municipality also has to organize at least 2 General district assemblies a year. The most important actions will be the object of a public inquiry.