ปากเกร็ดนครแห่งความสุข the city of happiness

5 Local problems… solve with local policies For people who live in local communities, apart from the duty to elect leaders at the national level, there is also a duty to elect local representatives, including administrators and members of local administrative council which are called Mayors and members of the Municipality Council. Pakkret Municipality is entitled to have 25 representatives, comprising of 1 Mayor and 24 members of the Municipality Council. In electing a good representative, one must look at the policy platform presented to the community. A good policy well-suited for the local community must be able to effectively address the problems in the local community in a timely manner. It must also be feasible and be worth the investment and achieve value-for-money. The local administration of Pakkret is elected through the election law for municipal mayors since 2000, which mandates for direct elections. At present, the local administration works under the vision “Source of quality education, superb residential areas, land of traditional culture and where the community joins hands for development”. The Municipality has over 200 projects to implement such vision. Among these, the budget for environmental projects receives the highest portion. The Municipality believes that development will be efficient if the citizens help in monitoring and following-up measures to solve the problems, both directly and indirectly. PAKKRET The city of Happiness