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In collaboration with the government of Lääne-Nigula parish and Geomedia, the development plan of Lääne-Nigula parish was renewed. The plan mainly dealt with the three parishes – Oru, Risti and Taebla – on the basis of the since 27.10.2013 newly amalgamated administration and their future impact. In addition to the...

The Estonian Strategy for Life-long Learning 2014-2020 sets the objective to support strong basic education in close proximity to home as well as the availability of a high-quality secondary education offering plenty of choices. Following the population development, the school network is not in accordance with the actual needs. This evaluation shows the need...

Negotiations for the amalgamation of Kose and Kõue rural municipalities are taking place. The interim summaries of the process are available at: http://test.kose.ee/leht/juuli12.pdf;https://kose.kovtp.ee/et/koue-vallaga liitumine; http://koue.ee/images/phocadownload/KoueKuulutaja/2012/juuli_2012%20leht.pdf

The government coalition, which took office in April 2014, included 539 activity promises into their programme. The ERR news portal asked the government monitors to analyse, which of these great promises were fulfilled by the Reform party and Pro Patria party coalition lead by Andrus Ansip and which stayed unfulfilled.

On the 2nd of June, in the “Reporters’ hour” broadcast, the topic “Recommendations to local governments” was discussed. Throughout the discussion, the country-specific recommendations of the European Commission were discussed and related to local governments. What would put more life into local governments? Present in the studio were: Katrin Höövelson...

Geomedia supports the traditional competition of ERGO World Games for the teams of top athletes in discuss throwing, taking place on September 13, 2012. The event is likely to remain the last competition for the legendary and renowned athlete Virgilius Alekna. Next to the top athletes of the world, the...

The local governments’ annual event took place on March, 26-27 2014. This year we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the “Town and Parish Day”. Open seminars, topical introductions and discussion on very different fields were part of the programme. For the local governments’ officials it was a great opportunity to...

In March, Paide city council proposed to all Järvamaa counties to start negotiating amalgamation. On the 1st of June 2015, a collaboration meeting took place in Paide city hall with all local government units of Järvamaa county that followed the proposal of Paide City Council. Türi municipality and Koigi municipality decided not to take...

Under the lead of Pärnu municipality government’s union, a county council was initiated in Kilingi-Nõmme (Saarde parish) on the 26th of September 2014. The meeting was also an anniversary, as the county council has been held already for the fifth time. This time, the objective was the renewal of Pärnumaa...

When considering local government amalgamation, financial management aspects are among important matters. In Viljandi’s case, the focus was set on two questions: 1) would the amalgamation enable achieving better access / quality of local government services to its inhabitants? 2) would the amalgamation improve the investment capability of the local...