Local community center for administrative management

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The municipal community center for administrative management ( KGSt ) is a professional association for municipal management , based in Cologne, which is jointly supported by cities , municipalities and districts . The KGSt is not a local umbrella association (this includes the German Association of Cities , the German District Association and the German Association of Cities and Municipalities and their respective regional associations), but sees itself as a local association for management issues. The KGSt has a steady increase in membership and now has more than 2100 full members and around 50 employees (full-time equivalents).

history

On June 1, 1949, the KGSt was founded under the name of the communal community center for administrative simplification in Cologne in the legal form of an unincorporated association with the participation of Reinhard Karl Julius Badenhoop . In May 1951, the main committee of the German Association of Cities decided that a special committee should deal in particular with the legal form and budget of the KGSt. One consequence was the first statute in May 1956. In November 2005, the KGSt was renamed to its current name, Kommunale Gemeinschaftstelle für Verwaltungsmanagement .

The KGSt and the City Council have been in one building since it was founded . First, this was in Lindenallee 13-17 in the Cologne-Marienburg villa colony . After the Association of Cities had acquired the Gereonshaus , which is a listed building, in March 2011, the KGSt moved with it into this renovated building at Gereonstrasse 18–32 in Cologne's Altstadt-Nord district.

Since 1952, the KGSt has been of overriding importance for the organizational work and for business management issues of the municipal administrations, as essential basic features of the administrative organization for all cities and municipalities in Germany have been drawn up. In 1953 she addressed the position plan and job evaluation .

As early as 1963, she presented a basic paper on “ inter-communal cooperation ” on inter-communal cooperation . From 1990 she designed the New Control Model (NSM) for the municipalities and continuously developed it. This is the German variant of New Public Management (NPM). This lacked the necessary financial component; Building on this, however, in 2003 the conference of interior ministers and senators of the federal states decided to introduce the new municipal financial management (NKF).

tasks

The KGSt deals in particular with the management , control and organization of local government. The main tasks of the KGSt are:

  • Expert opinions and reports , ie studies on possible optimization possibilities in the municipal organization.
  • Seminars and specialist conferences on a wide variety of specialist topics.
  • Newsletters on new developments and trends , such as the monthly KGSt ® journal.
  • Inter-communal exchange of experience , ie creation of information and communication opportunities between communes and moderation of processes of inter-communal cooperation. This is done on the one hand via the classic committee work and on the other hand via a knowledge database that is available to members free of charge. Further databases complement this offer, e.g. B. the job reviews database.
  • Comparison rings in which municipalities can compare their costs and services in different specialist areas (e.g. social welfare office, fire brigade, vehicle registration) on the basis of key figures .

Every three years the KGSt also organizes the KGSt-FORUM, the largest municipal congress with over 3000 visitors, at which current work results and future topics are presented and discussed.

A special feature of the preparation of expert opinions and reports is the involvement of experts from various municipalities from the respective areas of responsibility. This procedure is intended to ensure a high degree of practical relevance for the proposed changes.

Far-reaching proposals for the new control model and the modernization of the administration are seen as the most successful projects in the history of the KGSt .

Web links

  • kgst.de - Official website of KGSt

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.kgst.de/documents/20181/34177/T Berufsbericht + 2014-2017/ 79a65905-02b5-40bf-43eb- 3428994ccb03 Activity Report 2014-2017, pages 10-11 and page 15 (accessed on March 6 2018)
  2. Hans Peters (Ed.), Municipal Finance and Municipal Economy , 1959, p. 557
  3. ^ Frank Oschmiansky: New control model and modernization of administration. Federal Agency for Civic Education (BPB), June 1, 2010, accessed on April 22, 2014 .

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