Perspektywy rozwoju samorządu powiatowego
Prospects for the district self-government development

Summary/Abstract: The subject developed is located in the general theory of public administration reforms and is discussed on two levels: the description of the past experience and an attempt to evaluate the effects of public administration reforms carried out in the years 1990-2009 as well as encompasses the indication of the selected lines of potential changes in the subsequent years. The author takes as a starting point the necessity of reforms in the public administration by referring to the views of doctrine, especially the science of administration, arguing further that establishing in 1990 the local government at the commune level and then making an attempt to expand it in the years between 1990-1998 ended up as successful due to the reforms from the year 1998 and the restoration and establishment of the regional government. These are the confirmation as well as a perfect illustration of the concept of a typology of reforms. Evaluation of the effects of the reform carried out in 1998 as regards to the reform’s earlier assumptions constitutes the starting point for the indication of the main directions of the proposed changes in law aimed at further development of the district self-government. The first direction concerns the nature of the legal district as the unit of the country’s territorial division and, at the same time, the unit of territorial self-government, especially the issue of connecting the complex administration under the chairman of the district board sovereignty. The second refers to the construction of the implementing authorities and the proposed consideration of a more stable governor to hold office during the term of the district council. The third relates to the necessity of regulation of the terms of clauses in which authorities, against the background of alleged responsibility on behalf of the Council in the municipality and on behalf of the Board of Directors in the province, are unspecified. The fourth issue raised in the article argues the merits of further impairment of the county in forms of communal economy and economic activity beyond its boundaries in relation to the municipality and the province of local government. Finally, the fifth area, in which the self-government may develop further, includes specifying the tasks of the units of self-government and after the relevant adjustments, advocates the creation of the tasks map, which will not be raising unnecessary debates on the legitimacy of entrusting the task to the specified unit, thereby eliminating discussions on the necessity of the existence of the district, which break out from time to time.

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