Mayor’s Remarks:
1. A fire recently broke out at a temporary storage site for cleared items following Typhoon Danas. Combined with monsoonal winds and transboundary pollution, this has negatively impacted the local air quality. The Environmental Protection Bureau is instructed to strengthen air quality monitoring, issue timely alerts, and provide relevant public explanations. Citizens are urged to remain attentive to air quality conditions and take appropriate health precautions. All bureaus and departments are requested to cooperate with air quality response efforts, such as minimizing dust during public construction projects and reducing emissions in daily operations.
2. Although pork prices were previously affected by African swine fever, our concerted efforts have successfully contained the outbreak, and prices have recently begun to stabilize. However, due to a sharp collapse in pork prices in neighboring countries, there have been repeated instances of travelers attempting to bring pork products into Taiwan. Relevant bureaus and departments are instructed to cooperate with the central government in enforcing border disease prevention measures. The Agriculture Bureau is directed to continue the stringent oversight of biosecurity practices at pig farms, ensuring that no vulnerabilities arise. The central government has banned the use of kitchen waste as pig feed; pig farmers must fully comply with this policy. The Agriculture Bureau is expected to carry out rigorous inspections and strictly penalize any violations to protect the city’s livestock and pig farming industries, as well as public health.
3. With regard to the “Project Progress Report on the Construction of Publicly Owned, Privately Operated Childcare Centers and Parent–Child Centers,” the Social Affairs Bureau is requested to complete all projects on schedule and to the required quality standards.
4. The Smart Development Center is tasked with centrally organizing and preparing decommissioned computers and laptops from various bureaus and departments to facilitate their donation by the city government to social welfare organizations.