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    It will be Magistrate Lin’s first year anniversary of his inauguration. On December 12, he led the county government team to Yingnan Community in Nantou to become volunteers in this community, grow vegetables, cook and dine with the elderly people there. Magistrate Lin expressed that, according to people’s vote, the childbirth benefit tops the most of all county government’s policies. If the financial conditions allow, he announced that he plans to raise the childbirth benefit to NT$30 thousand next year. He expects the county government team to keep up with its good work to accomplish further.

    Inaugurated for a year, Magistrate Lin feels that he is competing with time every single day. In the past year, the county government accomplished many things, such as working as volunteers in the community. This allows him to know more whether the works promoted by the county government are accomplished in the regions or not. In addition, he takes every opportunity to show his respect to the volunteers of communities. In this year, Yingnan community has won the Excellent Award in the Communities Evaluation in the county. It excelled in the aspects of concern, charity dining hall, community development, and more. All these are the contributions of volunteers.

    Led by Magistrate Lin, the department heads of the county government worked as volunteers in the communities and grew vegetables at the charity farm. He believes, the government is in the “service sector”. Only by “bending down, can you get closer to people.” He led the department heads of the government to grow vegetables in the farms to provide them with more opportunities to get close to people and the land, feeling the needs at the grass-root level.

    Later Magistrate Lin announced the ranking of the most popular government policies, among which the childbirth benefit topped the list; the second was free bus rides for the elderly. Magistrate Lin expressed that with the survey conducted in his Facebook page, there were 2732 votes, among which most of them voted the childbirth benefit at NT$10 thousand. He announced that if the financial conditions of the county government allow, he plans to raise the benefit to NT$30 thousand next year.

    To display the accomplishment of governing, Magistrate Lin and the elderly people in the community hung spotlight policy cards on a Christmas tree to celebrate the festival in advance. At the same time, he and Chen Cheng-sheng, Deputy Magistrate, and Fang Hsin-hsiung, Secretary General, cooked for the elderly people in the community and stipulated the goals of the new policies, including the sponsoring of Nantou Lantern Festival, construction of a Jurassic Park at Caotun, building of a sand sculpture part at Nantou City, developing Fuxin Farm at Puli, building of Cinjing Elevated Trail, rebuilding of Lixing Industrial Road, lowering of the age for the Double Nine Festival benefits, NT$1000, to 65 years old, establishing “joint-reviewing center” to shorten the process of document handling, opening up more financial resources and saving more expenditure, and more.