A question from the city council revealed that a shower room was installed in the toilet of the mayor's room at Ichikawa City Hall in Chiba Prefecture.
Some lawmakers have criticized that the city hall already has a shower room, and Mayor Hirotami Murakoshi said, "I am assuming that it will be used in disaster response, so I explained the necessity carefully. I want to go. "
According to the city, the shower room was installed in the toilet of the mayor's room of the new city hall last October, according to the question of the Ichikawa city council held on the 26th.
Ichikawa City said that the three shower rooms already installed in the city hall would not be enough when responding to a disaster, and that it was newly installed at a construction cost of about 3.6 million yen, assuming that the mayor would use it. is.
In response, some members of the city council said, "I didn't explain why the shower room was already installed in the city hall, but why it was newly installed in the mayor's office. To public facilities that serve as evacuation centers. We should give priority to the installation of the facility. "
Regarding this, Mayor Murakoshi told NHK that "the shower room was set up in the mayor's room assuming that he would mainly use it when responding to a disaster. I would like to explain the necessity carefully in the future."