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Social Issues Committee

The competence of the Social Issues Committee includes:

• solving social issues and issues of social development;
• annual employment plan of the municipality;
• healthcare;
• protecting the rights of children.

Social Issues Committee supervises and provides for the work organization of Welfare Department of Riga City Council, the Registry Office of Riga, Children Rights Defence Centre and Riga Custody Court.

Social Issues Committee:

• cooperates with Riga Custody Court;
• assesses the effectiveness of the work of the municipality health and social assistance institutions, and capital companies as well as assesses rational use of their property and finances;
• assesses the proposals for support of politically repressed people and participants of the national resistance and prepares the respective projects for consideration in Riga City Council.

Pursuant to decision No 6 of Riga City Council of July 7, 2009, the number of councillors working on the Social Issues Committee may not exceed 15.

The sessions of the committee take place on Tuesdays at 12:00 a.m. in room No 610.

The composition of the Social Issues Committee:

1. Leonīds Kurdjumovs- the chairman of the committee
2. Irina Vinnika  - the deputy chairman of the committee
3. Viktors Fedotovs
4. Tatjana Lukina
5. Svetlana Savicka
6. Igors Solovjovs
7. Vladimirs Dolgins
8. Jānis Ločmelis
9. Antra Sakne  
10. Mārtiņš Šics
11. Andris Bērziņš
12. Jānis Zaržeckis
13. Aigars Pētersons
14. Kārlis Strēlis

Last changes 01.12.2011.