Kutaisi City Assembly

The members of the Sakrebulo are selected through a mixed electoral system. Of the 25 seats, 10 are filled through direct elections in local districts of the city. The remaining 15 members are chosen by political parties and are apportioned according to their support citywide. From 2017 counsel had 19 members from the ruling Georgian Dream, 4 from the United National Movement , and 2 from European Georgia. [4]

In accordance with the Code of Local Self-Government of the Organic Law of Georgia, the Sakrebulo exercises its powers to define the administrative-territorial organization of the municipality and its identity, organizational activities, determination of the personnel policy of the municipality, regulation and control of the activities of executive bodies; In the fields of municipal property management, social, amenities and household utilities, land use and natural resources use, municipal territory planning, transport and road economy, accounting, support for innovative development and informatization. [5]

The authority of the Sakrebulo in the field of administrative-territorial organization of the municipality and defining its identity includes:

• Creation and abolition of administrative units in the municipality, change of their borders
• Establishment of local self-government symbols - coat of arms, flag and other symbols and make changes in them
• establish the rules for the introduction of honorary titles and awards of the self-governing unit and their award
• names of geographical objects, Establishing the rule of numbering of buildings in the settlements
• Making a decision on creating, joining or leaving a non-profit (non-commercial) legal entity together with other self-governing units.
• approval of the socio-economic development strategy of the self-governing unit
• approval of measures and programs to be taken to attract investments and support innovative development in the territory of the municipality [6]