Community Conference

Community Conference is a constantly functioning meeting of non-governmental organisations. With this new structure the city government tries to invite these organisations and all the society to solve the city's problems together. The Community Conference is supposed to solve the most important problems:

• to ensure economic development;
• to increase employment;
• to decrease migration of youth;
• to cut down criminality and improve prevention of drugs at schools;
• to make business environment friendly.

The Conference aims at promoting democratic society and creating better life. The first Siauliai Community Conference took place in June 2000. The Mayor of the City addressed the conference with complimentary speech. Her intention was to involve all organisations simultaneously in the process of finding the right solutions. Although the municipality was not able to assign means for organisations due to poor economic situation in the country, it works on creating possibilities for support through participation in various projects, programs and receipt financing from different sources. Representatives of the non-governmental organisations jointly decided neither to elect advisory council nor to confirm regulations of the community conference. They agreed that more time is needed for organisations of various interests to familiarise with and co-ordinate their regulations.