정비사업의 필요성과 중요성에도 불구하고 많은 정비사업의 이해관계자 간의 갈등, 불투명한 업무처리, 명확하지 않은 법제도 및 행정처리 등으로 사업이 장기화, 사업비용 증가 등이 많은 사회적 문제를 발생시키고 있어 2008년도부터 사업방식의 개선에 관하여 논의가 진행되었고 공공관리제도의 법적근거가 2010년 3월 18일 도시 및 주거환경정비법이 개정되어 마련되었다.
공공관리제도를 통해 공공부문이 정비사업을 직접 관리하게 되면 정비사업의 투명성을 높이고 신뢰성을 확보하는데 상당 정도 기여할 것으로 기대 할 수 있지만, 공공관리자와 정비사업전문관리업자의 업무의 중복, 공공관리제도의 사유재산권 침해, 공공관리로 인한 사업지연, 사업지연에 따른 사업비 상승과 조합원 개발이익 감소, 그리고 정비사업 기금 부족으로 인한 지자체간 공공관리 시행가능 여부 등 많은 문제점들이 도출되었고, 정비사업의 주체인 조합원, 공무원, 협력업체 등을 대상으로 공공관리제도에 관한 의식조사를 실시한 결과 다음과 같은 결론을 얻게 되었다.
첫째, 정비사업의 인ㆍ허가권을 갖고 있는 공공이 정비사업전문관리업자, 시공자, 설계자 등의 선정 업무까지 시행하는 것은 조합원 개인재산을 출자 받아 조합을 결성하고 시행하는 민간 정비사업에 너무 막강한 권한을 갖는 것으로 사유재산의 권리행사를 직접적으로 침해하게 되며, 공공을 통해 업체를 선정하는 것이 투명성을 확보할 수 있다는 취지 자체도 조합원과 정비사업의 이해관계인으로부터 설득력과 공정성을 갖기 힘들다.
둘째, 현행 임원선출은 조합의 의사결정기관인 이사회 및 대의회의 의결을 거쳐 총회에서 결정된 선거관리규정에 따라 후보등록부터 임원선출까지 진행된다. 그러나 공공관리제도가 시행되어도 수많은 이해관계인과 이권개입 등에서 발생되는 근본적인 문제가 선결되지 않는 한 선거관리위원회에서 위탁하여 임원을 선출하여도 이권과 연관된 임원선출 문제는 해결 될 수 없다.
셋째, 정비사업의 비리 발생의 근본은 "정비사업비"의 차입이다. 공공관리제도로 공공이 도시정비기금 및 재정비촉진 특별회계에서 정비사업비를 지원 받을 수 있다면 정비사업의 투명성과 신뢰성 확보에 상당 정도의 기여를 할 것이다. 하지만, 서울시를 제외한 타 지자체의 정비기금은 매우 빈약한 실정이며, 2010년 3월에 개정된 지방세법으로 인해 정비기금의 조성도 어려운 실정이다.
또한, 정비사업의 수요는 점점 늘어나는데 비해 정비기금이 충분하지 않아 공공관리제도의 실질적인 시행에 어려운 측면이 많다.
마지막으로, 정비사업은 토지등소유자 한명 한명이 본인의 재산을 조합에 출자하여 사업이 추진되는 조합방식이다. 따라서 각 시행단계 및 어떠한 결정이 필요할 때마다 법과 관련규정에 따라 이사회와 대의원회 그리고 총회의 의결을 거쳐야 사업이 추진될 수 있다. 토지등소유자의 의결권 행사는 회의장에 직접 참석하여 투표 등으로 행사 할 수 있으며, 회의장에 참석이 불가능한 경우 서면을 통하여 의사를 표시하여 의결권을 행사 할 수 있다. 하지만, 전국 모든 정비사업 현장을 보면 서면을 통한 의결이 절대적으로 높은 비율을 차지하고 서면을 통해 모든 의사가 결정되는 만큼 서면을 통한 의결제도의 제도적 보완이 시급하다.
Alternative Abstract
Housing which has kept human beings from environmental damages and social intrusions, satisfying natural desires and living a civilized life, is not unchangeable and an imperishable but outmoded on accordance with time and able to be destroyed according to a management. Increasingly extensive income suggests actual values which meet various desires through the housing, furthermore, as well as a simple habitation.
Accordingly, to improve an urban environment, an urban redevelopment should introduce new functions to old urban centers and to solve the capital regional tendency of the population and the residence, the low density regions, the deteriorated residential areas, and the established apartments should be reorganized, which enhances life quality and solves lack of land with an efficient land use. That is why the urban-rehabilitation project including the redevelopment and the reconstruction has been loudly pushed on current demands.
Despite the necessity and importance of the urban-redevelopment project,however, conflicts among different interested parties in the project, untransparent processes, and ambiguous legal systems and uncertain administrative measures have caused various social problems such as a prostration and an extension of the project and an increasing working expenses. So, the discussion on improving the urban-redevelopment project's methods had been made since 2008 and in 18th March, 2010 『Environment Renewal Development Act』was rebuilt.
As for the public management system.
First, to keep a chain between a management agency and the housing redevelopment district promotion committee from being overrun, at an early stage of the project, the public management manager should choose a speciality redevelopment management agency and build up the basic methods of choosing a designer as well as a constructor.
Second, the resident voting system should elect and organize the chairman and the supervisors of the housing redevelopment district promotion committee and the entrusted election board should manage the voting for the chairman and the supervisors in order to guarantee the fairness and the transparency and to resolve conflicts inside the district.
Finally, the public manager should support and take charge of expenditure for the redevelopment project by making use of urban redevelopment funds and the special redevelopment promotion account because ahead of choosing a constructor, working expenditure is almost borrowed by some subcontractors and all sorts of corruptions like the chain of collusive ties arise.
In those matters, as the public sector itself manages the redevelopment project in the public management system, the redevelopment project makes sure more transparency and gains more credibility. But that actually causes many problems including an repetitious work between the public manager and the speciality redevelopment management agency, an invasion of private property by the public management system, a delayed project due to the public management, a rising expenditure and a declining profits of the union, and an uncertainty of carrying the public management depending on a short of the redevelopment project funds in the local governments.
SPSS(Statistical Package for Social Science) WIN17.0 was utilized for this analytic study on opinions in the unions which are a main agents of the redevelopment project, the local governments, and the subcontractors.
This study with the data of some statistics, the research about the redevelopment project and the public management, the reference data in some theses and reports suggests the improvements of the public management system as follows.
First, the public sectors have too much power to invade directly private property because they not only authorize the permission of the redevelopment project but also choose the speciality redevelopment management agency, the constructor, and the designer. Thus the partners and the related parties can't understand that the public manager secures the transparency in publicly choosing some contractors. Therefore, the public management system should 'assist and cooperate', administratively not 'manage', the public sector in the origin purpose so as to choose some contractors clearly and fair.
Second, the existing election of board member is carried on from registering candidates to electing board members according to the procedure rules of elections which is determined from the general meeting on the back of decision of a union board meeting as legislative body. But as long as the fundamental causes such as interests intervention and too many related parties don't get resolved, a solution of election for board member may be impossible, although the entrusted election board manages the voting.
As a result, It is necessary to provide an institutional strategy for forbidding the chain of collusive ties and to improve the promotion procedure reasonably for the transparent and clear elections.
Third, a source of corruption of the redevelopment project is borrowing expenditure for the redevelopment project. If urban redevelopment funds and the special redevelopment promotion account support expenditure for the redevelopment project, it can fairly contribute to securing transparency and credibility of the redevelopment project. However, aside from Seoul, the rest of urban redevelopment funds in local governments are insufficient and raising urban redevelopment funds is not easy under the influence of the amended local tax law.
Besides, the public management system has a trouble performing its workings in that the insufficient urban redevelopment funds doesn't meet increasing demands on the redevelopment project.
Therefore, It is necessary that through amendment of Environment Renewal Development Act, the stage of the housing redevelopment district promotion committee should be eliminated and the landowners should acquire the permission for establishing the union right after a mayor or a governor determines the renewal districts and establishes the accelerating urban redevelopment plan. It can somehow resolve corruptions such as all sorts of corruption like the chain of collusive ties at the early stage of workings.
Also, It is indispensable that the redevelopment project as the public business should go in the joint with the landowners and the constructors which under urban environment improving project, Environment Renewal Development Act in Article 8, Section 3, allows.
Finally, the current redevelopment project follows the method of union activities as every landowner invest and run the union. So, the procedure to make a decision on each stage requires the voting from a union board meeting to a general meeting as necessary in the condition of the related rules. The landowners who are present at the general meeting can exercise their rights for the making-decision and the meeting-absent landowners can represent their opinions in writing. In fact, all the approval decisions are made in writing because the documentary decision is made at a incomparably high rate all over the sites. Thus it is urgent to complement the documentary decision system.