For the first time, Kyoto City has hired two people living in the Tokyo metropolitan area as "side business personnel" who have highly specialized people work in the government while still enrolled in companies.
In order to rebuild the tight finances, we will ask them to take charge of attracting companies.
Of the 1648 applicants, Kyoto City hired two people, Motoki Kimura, who works for an advertising agency, and Kenichiro Shiniro, a director of a financial venture.
On the 12th, the Mayor of Kadokawa issued a commission letter to the two hired as side business personnel by connecting the Kyoto City Hall and the Tokyo office online.
In Kyoto City, in order to secure a new source of income for the crisis financial recovery, attracting companies from all over the country and creating new industries are issues.
Mr. Kimura will be in charge of "Urban Branding Advisor" and Mr. Shiniro will be in charge of attracting companies in the Tokyo metropolitan area and calling for donations of hometown tax payments to companies until the end of March next year.
We will make use of the personal connections and know-how cultivated in private companies to make proposals for projects and pay a remuneration of 25,000 yen per day, but Kyoto City keeps labor costs low compared to hiring full-time staff. It is supposed to be done.
This is the first time that the city of Kyoto has hired "side business personnel," and Mayor Kadokawa said, "I'm really relying on you as I'm in the process of reforming. I want to realize it as much as possible. "
Mr. Kimura stated his aspirations, "I would like to convey the advantages of Kyoto as a business city and think about new business proposals together."
In addition, Mr. Shiniro said, "I want to contribute to the community in a different way from my main business."
The two hired
The two newly hired by Kyoto City are enthusiastic about making the most of their careers in the community.
When the city of Kyoto recruited "side business personnel", there were applications from more than 1,600 people in their teens to 70s, and two people were selected after document screening and interviews.
Of these, Kenichiro Shiniro (35), who lives in Tokyo and serves as an officer at a financial venture company, has decided to engage in activities to attract companies.
After earning an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from a business school in London while working at Megabank, Mr. Shiniro learned the know-how of starting a business and corporate sales at multiple consulting companies and venture companies.
Motoki Kimura (40), an office worker living in Tokyo, is working on activities to enhance the attractiveness of Kyoto as a business city.
As a creative director of a major advertising agency, Mr. Kimura has been involved in the production of corporate advertisements and product development, as well as various educational projects conducted by government agencies.
The two met for the first time at the Kyoto City office in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo on the 9th of this month, and balanced the city's efforts to improve the financial situation and the work of its main business. We exchanged opinions with the person in charge about how to proceed with the work.
Mr. Shiniro said, "I'm really looking forward to it, and at the same time, I feel a lot of pressure to be selected from a large number of applicants. If so, I can contribute while keeping the main axis in my current job. I want to produce steadily visible results so that people will say that I'm glad I left it to them. "
In addition, Mr. Kimura said, "I think that you can get the feeling that you are using your life meaningfully as a side job in Kyoto City. If you work at a private company, each person who receives the product I can't see my face, but I'm glad that I can understand the response that I might have contributed to the people living in this city. "It can only be done in Kyoto" or "It's interesting because I'll do it in Kyoto" I want to keep that in mind. "
Takeshi Osaka, Deputy Director of the Kyoto City Tokyo Office, said, "I thought that the hiring method of side business was very effective for local governments in that many people applied and I was able to meet excellent human resources. I hope the project will be successful and spread to other departments in the city. "
What is the current financial situation of Kyoto City?
Expenditures in Kyoto City far exceed revenues, and it is estimated that there will continue to be a shortage of financial resources of about 50 to 60 billion yen every year, according to estimates last November.
The shortfall is covered by withdrawing the "Public Debt Redemption Fund" that is reserved for future debt repayment.
Last month, the city of Kyoto put together a plan for administrative and financial reforms, saying that the fund would run out in the 6th year of Reiwa and that it could become a "financial revitalization group" aiming for financial reconstruction under the control of the government. The policy is to proceed with the review.
Specifically, we will consider reducing the number of city employees by 550 or more in five years, raising the target age of the "Keiro Ride Certificate" so that elderly people can freely ride on city buses and subways for a fixed amount.
At the same time, it is necessary to secure a new source of income, and we are strengthening taxation and encouragement to tourists and other people living outside Kyoto City.
We have begun to consider taxing villas and vacant houses as a new tax following the "accommodation tax," which was introduced three years ago and led to an increase in tax revenue of 4.2 billion yen in the first year of Reiwa.
In addition, since the “outflow” of the inhabitant tax last year due to the hometown tax payment amounted to more than 4 billion yen, the policy of “not being involved in excessive competition for gifts” was changed, and the gifts were enhanced and PR was strengthened. And so on.
In the administrative and financial reform plan, deregulation and the creation of industry-government-academia networks will be implemented in the future, taking advantage of the charm of the ancient city where history and traditional culture are alive, and excellent human resources such as students and researchers who gather in the "university town". We have announced that we will promote the attraction of companies through.
Expanding efforts to hire "side business personnel"
Efforts by local governments to have specialized people work as side businesses while working at companies are expanding.
According to the human resources service company, there are at least 12 local governments that have recruited "side business human resources" to work in the side business while doing their main business in order to improve administrative services and financial soundness.
In order for local governments to hire external human resources such as those who work for companies, there have been many cases in which full-time employees who work five days a week for a term of eight hours a day are recruited.
In this case, there were few applications from the younger generation because it was necessary to quit the job in order to work in the local government, and it was difficult to secure human resources with high IT skills, which is lacking in the local government.
On the other hand, if you are a "side business person", you can continue to work at a company, so you can expect many applications, and labor costs will be lower than when you hire full-time employees.
On the other hand, in private companies, as the government has formulated guidelines to encourage side jobs and side jobs as part of work style reform, the movement to allow employees to work side jobs has begun to spread.
Furthermore, it is believed that the number of people requesting a side job has increased due to the spread of telework due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection.
Since the desires of workers who want to do administrative work and the needs of local governments who want to utilize specialized human resources have matched, we expect that the utilization of "side business human resources" will increase further at human resources service companies.
The human resources service company "En Japan" said, "There are more applications than expected for local governments that have recruited side business personnel, and there is a high need for workers who want to utilize their skills in the local community while continuing their main business. So, the work of local governments away from where I live is also an option for side jobs, so I expect that the utilization of side business personnel will expand further in the future. "