Support safe and secure life

We will continue to strengthen disaster prevention measure and comprehensive improvement of living infrastructure and social infrastructure so that everyone in townspeople and visitors can live and live in a safe and secure living environment.

Based on the "Niseko Town Disaster Prevention Plan," we will continue to enhance and strengthen "disaster prevention and mitigation" measures to protect the lives and properties of townspeople. By implementing disaster prevention drills and participating in workshops etc. to enable prompt and accurate response in the event of a disaster, the staff's practical ability is improved, and efforts are made to further devise public awareness and publicity activities for disaster prevention information to townspeople. We plan cooperation with associations and push forward the making of voluntary disaster prevention organization rooted in area.

Regarding nuclear disaster prevention measures, we will work closely with the national government, Hokkaido, and related local governments to promote appropriate discussions on the “ Niseko Town Regional Disaster Prevention Plan (Nuclear Disaster Prevention Plan)” as effective as possible, and to inform the townspeople.・ We perform enlightenment.

In addition, for the “New Government Office” and “Disaster Prevention Center”, which will be the bases for Honmachi's regional disaster prevention measures, we will implement the design this year based on the “ Niseko Town Office New Government Building Construction Basic Design” implemented last year.

Regarding the firefighting work, we are working with the Mt. Yotei Mountain Fire Fighting Association in collaboration, and since January, 2007, the operation of emergency life-saving persons has been started by the Niseko branch office. The Niseko branch office will develop semi-automatic defibrillator updates and expendables and medicines necessary for the activities of emergency life-saving persons in this fiscal year and promote the creation of a life-saving training system.

We will continue to enhance our management system for community-based community FM "Radio Niseko", which is important as disaster prevention communication. Radio Niseko has been conducting various information dissemination to the townspeople and tourists such as administrative information, activity groups in the town, tourism events, avalanche accident prevention information, etc. So far, we have been making new information through radio stations Community activities are spreading greatly. In Japan, an unusual radio theater company has been established, broadcasting a radio program each year, as well as more than 60 volunteer personality activities played a big success. We will support our efforts to further improve our work environment and training for new recruits, etc. for future development.

The renewal of the Niseko Town homepage was completed by the end of March this year, and from 2018, the searchability has been improved from the perspective of townspeople, tourists and users, and cooperation with SNS and It is possible to transmit information that corresponds to verbalization. We will continue to work on expanding information transmission in Honcho.

In addition, we will continue discussions with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on the transfer of optical fiber communication facilities possessed by the concerned town to NTT, and will endeavor to transfer it early.

In order to maintain the population increase tendency of Honmachi, I will PR the town this fiscal year with emphasis on urban areas where migration / settlement awareness is high. Also, in order to resolve regional issues in Honmachi and increase the settled population, we will introduce regional cooperation volunteers to secure the people who promote autonomy creation.

In addition, in order to promote the construction of rental apartment houses by the private sector, we changed the contents of the "Ordinance to promote the construction of private housing funds housing housing", extend the application deadline for two years, and continue to work on private housing securing measures We will continue to advance.

In the Hon, although the trend of the declining birthrate and aging population there, the population increased slightly, since it has increased the number of households, "a planning period of 10 years in the 2017 fiscal year Niseko Town formulated the JS Basic Plan" I am. In this fiscal year, we will establish a new subsidy for construction costs for private rental housing with a fixed rent ceiling, which will ensure a certain level of living performance, and provide private housing that allows young workers and child-rearing households to live comfortably. Promote maintenance. About municipal housing, based on "life extension plan", we carry out extension of life extension type compound improvement construction of Shin-Arishima housing complex and hope sheep housing complex and perform some maintenance of Mototsudan housing complex.

Regarding town roads, we have tried to properly maintain and manage road facilities by road patrol and inspection etc. However, there are many routes that have passed decades after maintenance, further damage will be further progressed, maintenance and repair expenses Increase is expected in the future. In order to effectively repair within limited resources, we will formulate a "road maintenance management plan" that takes life cycle cost into account.

Regarding improvement of the town road, it is decided to carry out pavement work on a three-year plan concerning the Yotei Kondo contact line (1,600 meters from the national highway side) where the pavement deterioration is significant and the Rubeshibu route (370 meters) where the number of beneficiary units is increasing, To do.

We will continue to carry out improvement of sidewalks of Yotei Kondo intersection line, improved pavement of Kondo X-rays and refurbishment of Fuyo bridge. In addition to proceeding with repair works such as side gutters and blocking work of road drainage facilities, we will continue to take necessary measures for snow removal of the town road during the winter.

Construction of the scheduled section was completed by the understanding and cooperation of everyone along the railway line for the sidewalk maintenance project of the road two steco stop line that Hokkaido is constructing. We will continue to make requests to Hokkaido regarding safety measures such as improvement of sidewalk sidewalks, improvement of intersections, installation of signals and sidewalk removal.

In order to optimize the means of transportation in the town including the Nikotto Bus, we will hold a public transportation council to share the current situation and issues of local public transportation, and to improve the convenience of secondary and tertiary transportation. We will consider a new intra-regional transportation system.
This year, we will conduct a demonstration test to investigate the possibility of a transportation system by sharing cars between residents using private cars through a mutual assistance system of the community, and a ski bus in the town block for the purpose of alleviating the congestion Nikotto Bus, continuing from last year. It will operate.

With the aging of houses and changes in social needs, vacant houses are increasing nationwide. Although the vacant house ratio in Honmachi is lower than all roads nationwide, it is expected that collapse due to the weight of snow etc. is expected to increase due to the heavy snowfall area, so local security and living environment, preservation of good landscape In order to plan, Niseko Town vacant homes have a plan of measures for 10 years in 2017.

Until now, we have taken countermeasures against vacant houses under cooperation with "Shiribeshi Kurobane Bank" and "Niseko Real Estate Industry Association", but in the future we will continue to conduct implementation of vacant house investigation, consideration of effective utilization, strengthening guidance on removal Advance, we will strive for more effective management of vacant houses more effectively.

As for the water service business, as for the water fee reviewed by the waterworks council last year, because maintenance fee is not covered by the current water usage fee, change in water usage fee by type of usage to change by caliber, etc., water fee We will prepare for the revision of the plan, and strive to establish sustainable water supply management. We will conduct survey design to expand water supply so that we can respond to the increase of water usage in Motomachi district.
Regarding sewerage projects, we will review the sewerage planning area to respond to population growth, such as expansion of sewer area, and aim for self-sustainment of sewage accounting.