Review of people's opinion towards city councils as well as evaluation of the Islamic Councils in East-Azarbaijan province (2008)

One of the important results of Islamic republic of Iran revolution was forming of councils in city and village. Today's councils have important roles in metropolitan management, so that it is one of the important characteristic of decentralization of governments that they can delicate the political and administration power to state, city and village level.The purpose of this research is to review the East-Azarbaijan people's opinion towards city councils and evaluation of their performance. This research has been fulfilled by measurement method. The statistical subjects for this study consist of individuals over 18 years old in the province cities selected by using the Kokran formula for estimating the template volume. The results of descriptive analysis showed the weak performances of councils to select a capable manager to administer the city, made by 74.2% of the subjects. Also, 71.3% of the subjects have recognized the weak performances of the councils in recognition of shortages, cooperating with executive responsible for the organs, insufficiencies as well as many poor municipal facilities.The subjects also recognized the councils to conduct defenseless while supervising over the appropriate performance of the council's approvals, public contribution in social, economic, constructional, cultural, educational and other welfare affairs, establishment of associations; social rescue, cultural, guidance bodies as well as launching cooperatives for production, distribution, and consumption purposes, application of rules and regulations, supervising on excavation and constructing canals for metropolitan facilities, construction of passages, streets and squares, green areas and public facilities, enactment of regulations concerning the establishment and administering the official fruit and vegetable supply centers. The result of the statistical analysis in this research shows the same evaluation made by subjects of different levels of education, revenue and age concerning the Islamic council's performances. Meantime, the review and assumptions cleared the fact that there is a meaningful relationship on the consciousness and awareness of council's performance. Also, the citizens deemed the councils necessary for metropolitan management and surveillance on municipal performance.