¿Qué es Participación Ciudadana?

ARTICLE 196. COMMUNITY INTERVENTION IN PLENARY: The Community may intervene in the plenary session after registering in the citizen participation book available in the entity. They will do so only to refer to an issue related to the object of discussion of the corporation and will have up to five (5) minute. If they think they need more time, shall
request authorization from the President to continue with the matter to be discussed, in which case the President will determine if he considers it the additional time for his intervention.
During his speech, the Citizen must maintain a position and respect for all councilors, of public servants or citizens who attend the plenary sessions, For this reason, it is strictly forbidden to carry out demonstrations contrary to the Constitution and the law, that affect honor, good name or dignity or acts of incitement to violence, through word or deed ways.
The president will impose on whoever disrespects the corporation or verbally abuses any of its members, according to the severity of the fault, any of these sanctions:
1. Call to order.
2. Public declaration of having lacked order and due respect.
3. Suspension from speaking.
4. Suspension of the right to continue participating in the debate or in the session.
5. Immediate eviction from the premises.
Paragraph: The citizen, may participate in a maximum of five (5) opportunities within the period
normal session.

ARTICLE 199. CABILDO ABIERTO: The Municipal Council of Yumbo as representatives of the community must promote the open council, participation mechanism in which a public meeting is held between the Council and the inhabitants of the municipality in order to discuss matters of public interest. In each period of ordinary sessions, open meetings may be held in which, at the initiative of a number not less than five per thousand of the citizens of the municipal electoral roll, The matters that the residents request be studied will be considered, as long as they are within the competence of the council. It is the mayor's obligation to attend the open town hall. (Artículo 22, Ley 1757 de 2015)
ARTICLE 200. OPEN CABILDO MATTERS: Any matter of interest to the community may be the subject of the open council. In the event that the community summons the mayor, it must attach to the signatures the questionnaire that it will formulate to the official, which must be submitted by the president of the council, with at least five (5) days before the town hall celebration. The questionnaire should only deal with matters of competence of the cited official.
Paragraph: Through the open council, no initiatives of agreement may be presented. (Artículo 23, Ley 1757 de 2015)
ARTICLE 201. PRELACIÓN: In the open meetings, the topics will be discussed in the order in which they were presented to the respective secretary.. In any case, the open meeting must be held no later than one month after the filing of the petition..
Paragraph: If the petition was filed when the respective corporation was not in ordinary sessions, the council must be held in the next period of ordinary sessions.
ARTICLE 202. DIFUSIÓN DEL CABILDO: The Council will arrange for the wide dissemination of the date, the place and the topics that will be the subject of the open meeting. Para ello, Before the expiration date for the registration date of the participants, they will order the publication of two calls in a mass media with wide circulation and when possible, through information and communication technologies, with a difference of not less than ten (10) days between one and another. (Artículo 25, Ley 1757 de 2015)
ARTICLE 203. ASISTENCIA Y VOCERÍA: All people who have an interest in the matter may attend the open meetings. In addition to the spokesperson, they may intervene, for a maximum time of twenty (20) minute, those who register no later than three (3) days before the meeting in the secretariat of the Corporation, presenting a written summary of their intervention.
After the community interventions, mayor, will respond to your concerns. Once this procedure has been completed, the members of the corporation may speak under the terms established in this regulation.
Paragraph: When the technological means allow it, The open meetings will be broadcast live over the Internet or through the mechanisms that the corporation's board of directors deems appropriate.. (Artículo 26, Ley 1757 de2015)
ARTICLE 204. SUMMONS TO OFFICIALS OF THE ADMINISTRATION: By citizen request derived from the call to the open council in accordance with the Law 1757 de 2015, departmental officials may be summoned, municipal or local, con cinco (5) días de anticipación, so that they attend the council and so that they respond, oralmente o por escrito, on facts related to the cabildo issue. La desatención a la citación sin justa causa, será causal de mala conducta. (Artículo 27, Ley 1757 de 2015)
ARTICLE 205. OBLIGATORIEDAD DE LA RESPUESTA: A week after the meeting is held, a session will be held to which all those who participated in it will be invited., in which the reasoned responses to the proposals and requests presented by citizens will be presented, by the agent and the corporation.
Cuando se trate de un asunto relacionado con inversiones públicas municipales, locales, The answer must indicate the order of priority of the same within the budget and the corresponding plans. Yes, the responses given by officials include decision-making commitments, These will be mandatory and the authorities must proceed with their execution, prior compliance with constitutional and legal regulations. (Artículo 28, Ley 1757 de2015)
ARTICLE 206. CABILDO OPEN OUTSIDE THE HEADQUARTERS: When it comes to matters that specifically affect a locality, corregimiento or commune, The session of the corresponding public corporation may be held in the place where the board of directors and the spokesperson deem convenient in a concerted manner. (Artículo 29, Ley 1757 de 2015)
ARTICLE 207. REGISTRATION OF OPEN CABILDOS: The General Secretariat of the corporation shall keep a record of each open town hall, the topics that were addressed, participants, the memories of the event and the answer given. A copy of this registry will be sent to the National Participation Council and the National Electoral Council.. (Artículo 30, Ley 1757 de 2015)
ARTICLE 208. GENERAL AND MANDATORY OF LAW: In any case, to apply the parameters and procedures of the Open Cabildos, the provisions of the law must be taken into account. 134 de 1994 modified by law 1757 de 2015 “Citizen Participation Mechanisms” y “Promotion and Protection of Democratic Participation”.

ARTICLE 209. NORMATIVE POPULAR INITIATIVE: This means of citizen participation, consists of the political right of a group of citizens representing no less than ten percent (10%) of the current electoral census in the municipality, para presentar proyectos de acuerdo.
Projects that are the sole initiative of the mayor are excepted; those dealing with budget matters, fiscal or tributary, and those of preservation and restoration of public order. The spokesperson will present the respective project and will be summoned and will intervene in all stages of the process..
ARTICLE 210. SUBJECTS THAT MAY BE THE SUBJECT OF A POPULAR INITIATIVE: Only those that fall within the competence of the Council can be a matter of popular normative initiative.. Popular normative initiatives or popular consultations may not be presented to the Council on
the following subjects:
1. Those that are the sole initiative of the mayor
2. Budgeting, fiscal or tributary
3. Preservation and restoration of public order.
ARTICLE 211. PRESENTACIÓN Y PUBLICACIÓN: Once certified by the National Registrar of Civil Status, in compliance with the requirements of the Law 134 de 1994, Your spokesperson will present said certificate with the text of the project and the explanatory statement, así como la dirección de su domicilio y la de los promotores, before the secretariat of the Corporation. El nombre de la iniciativa, that of its promoters and spokespersons, as well as the text of the project and its explanatory statement, They must be disclosed through the means defined by the Council and that guarantees the effectiveness of the dissemination to the community..
ARTICLE 212. TRÁMITE DE LA INICIATIVA POPULAR: To guarantee the effectiveness of citizen participation during the process of the popular normative initiative, the following rules must be taken into account:
1. The popular initiative will be studied in accordance with the provisions of this
regulation.
2. El vocero deberá ser convocado a todas las sesiones en que se tramite el proyecto y ser oído en todas las etapas del trámite.
3. The spokesperson may appeal to the plenary when the respective commission has
pronounced against the popular initiative.
4. The corporation will give the pertinent procedure in the periods established for all draft agreements.
5. When the corporation does not give a first debate to a popular initiative’ during the constitutional period and that should be filed’ it may be presented again in the following constitutional period. In this case, the signatures that support the popular initiative will continue to be valid and it will not be necessary to collect them again..

ARTICLE 213. ACCOUNTABILITY ACTION PLAN: The Council shall annually prepare an action plan for accountability, complying with the guidelines of the single manual of accountability, which must be published in compliance with the provisions of the Law. (Artículo 58 de la ley 1757 de 2015)
ARTICLE 214. MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTS: The president of the council and the presidents of the permanent commissions, prepare a performance accountability report once a year, within the first three months from the second year. The accountability report will contain at least a list of the proposals submitted, denied, approved and pending; an inventory of advanced discussions and
draft agreements presented, denied, approved and pending; and a report on both the administrative aspects, financial, corresponding labor and contractual, as well as the pending matters that require continuity in their process.
The corresponding reports will be permanently available to the public on the Council's website.. (Artículo 59 de la ley 1757 de 2015)