Union of Turkish World Municipalities (TDBB) December Executive Board Meeting was held on 23 December 2020 through video conference.
The meeting under the chairmanship of President of TDBB and also Mayor of Konya Metropolitan Municipality Uğur İbrahim Altay, was attended by TDBB Secretary General Fahri Solak, Executive Board Members who are Mayor of Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality Yücel Yılmaz, Mayor of Zeytinburnu Ömer Arısoy, Mayor of Bağcılar Lokman Çağırıcı, Mayor of Şahinbey Mehmet Tahmazoğlu and Mayor of Başiskele Yasin Özlü.
The meeting continued with the briefing of TDBB Secretary General Fahri Solak on the ongoing activities since the last Executive Board Meeting on 18 November 2020 and the discussion of the meeting’s agenda.
Within this framework, it was decided to organize an Experience Sharing Program titled “Role of Local Governance during the Covid-19 Pandemic” for Azerbaijani municipalities that have sister city relationships with Turkish Municipalities in cooperation with TDBB and Azerbaijan Union of Municipalities (AŞBMA), to hire TDBB work office in Ankara to be used in coordination social and cultural works, for the representing operations and official and diplomatic visits, to support of two projects of ‘Heated Greenhouse Facilities in Modiça, Bosnia and Herzegovina’ by TDBB, to organize “Training Program for Cooperation of Local Governments with Private Sector” in 2021 in cooperation with TDBB and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Istanbul International Private Sector and Development Center (IICPSD), to support monthly expenses of a dormitory which is built by Emmaus Association in Srebrenica city of Bosnia and Herzegovina during 2021 by TDBB, to start a necessary process in order to establish a sister city relationship between Umnugobi (Mongolia) and Isparta Municipalities in the date of 04-05 June 2021, to provide participant support to the International Smart Grids and Cities Congress and Fair from our foreign members and to present the membership application made by Keşan (Edirne) Municipality to the Administrative Board of our Union.
24.12.2020