Poti City Assembly

Poti City Assembly, also known as Poti Sakrebulo or the Poti Municipal Assembly, is the elected representative body of Poti, a city municipality in Georgia. It functions as the municipality's local legislative and supervisory institution rather than as a commercial brand. The assembly considers and adopts local measures concerning the city budget, municipal taxes and fees, public utilities, land use, transport, roads, municipal property, social programs, and the oversight of executive municipal authorities. The assembly is elected for four-year terms. The referenced composition of the 2021–2025 period consists of 25 members, while the preceding 2017–2021 assembly also contained 25 members. In the 2017–2021 term, Georgian Dream held 18 seats. The remaining seats were distributed among the United National Movement, European Georgia, the Alliance of Patriots of Georgia, the Labour Party, the Development Movement, and the Democratic Movement. This composition illustrates the assembly's role as a local electoral forum in which national and smaller political parties participate. Under Georgia's Organic Law on Local Self-Government, the Sakrebulo exercises authority over the administrative organization and identity of the municipality, the regulation and monitoring of executive bodies, personnel-policy matters, and the management of local public responsibilities. It may establish or alter administrative units and their boundaries, approve municipal symbols such as a coat of arms or flag, create rules for honorary titles and local awards, determine the names of geographic features, and set rules for numbering buildings. It also participates in decisions concerning inter-municipal nonprofit legal entities, municipal development strategies, investment-attraction programs, and initiatives supporting innovation and informatization. The body conducts regular sessions and works through committees. The referenced assembly has five committees, which provide an internal structure for examining policy and administrative matters before plenary consideration. Its practical significance lies in translating national local-government law into decisions affecting daily life in Poti, including infrastructure, utilities, municipal finance, land management, and public services. Publicly available reference material identifies the institution and its responsibilities but does not provide a complete current membership list, presiding-officer record, official website, or detailed account of individual legislative decisions.

Poti City Assembly is the local representative institution of Poti, Georgia. In Georgian municipal governance, a city assembly is commonly known as a Sakrebulo. Its role is established within Georgia's local self-government framework, under which elected municipal assemblies adopt local rules and decisions and supervise the work of municipal executive bodies. The assembly's remit covers both institutional and service-related questions. It can determine aspects of Poti's administrative-territorial organization, including the creation or abolition of administrative units and changes to their boundaries. It also has a role in defining municipal identity through the establishment of symbols, honorary titles, awards, geographic names, and building-numbering rules. These powers allow the assembly to shape the formal civic organization and public identity of the municipality. Its policy responsibilities extend to municipal property, social affairs, household and public utilities, land use, natural resources within the municipal territory, spatial and territorial planning, transport, roads, accounting, innovation, and informatization. The assembly also considers the city budget and local taxation matters and exercises regulatory and supervisory functions over municipal executive authorities. In addition, it may approve a municipal socio-economic development strategy and measures intended to attract investment or support innovative development. The assembly is elected every four years. The documented 2017–2021 assembly had 25 members. Georgian Dream held 18 seats, while the United National Movement held two. European Georgia, the Alliance of Patriots of Georgia, the Labour Party, the Development Movement, and the Democratic Movement each held one seat. The referenced 2021–2025 assembly is likewise described as having 25 members, although the available material does not specify its full party composition. Regular sessions and five committees provide the assembly's working structure. Committees allow municipal issues to be examined before being brought to the wider assembly. The institution therefore operates as both a local lawmaking forum and a mechanism for political representation and executive oversight. The available reference material does not identify a founding date, current chairperson, individual current members, official web domain, or a chronological catalogue of notable resolutions. Accordingly, its documented history is primarily institutional and legal rather than a record of separately branded programs or commercial activities.

• 2021

  2021–2025 assembly term

  [1]Poti City Assemblyen.wikipedia.org

  The referenced municipal term for 2021–2025 is described as having 25 assembly members. The available source does not provide the complete party breakdown or individual membership list.

• 2017

  2017–2021 assembly term begins

  [1]Poti City Assemblyen.wikipedia.org

  The documented 2017–2021 Poti City Assembly consisted of 25 members. Georgian Dream held the majority with 18 seats, while several other national and smaller parties were represented.

A municipal legislative, representative, and oversight institution serving the residents and administration of Poti.

1. 1Poti City Assemblyen.wikipedia.org