figure out capital expenditures and staffing needs.

Until lately, comprehensive work consignment to private sector was mainly used for the maintenance and management of sewage plants. However, in recent years there has been a movement toward using the comprehensive work consignment to private sector for the maintenance and management of roads.

Fuchu City (Tokyo) has consigned the ‘Area and Roads Surrounding the Keyaki Tree-lined Pathway Comprehensive Management Business,’ a project which will target the road facilities in the city center and run for a 3 year period, from FY2014 to FY2016. The project was consigned to a joint venture that includes local contractors, which was selected by a publicly offered proposal method (Figure 2-2-18).

In order to get a grasp on contractors’ opinion regarding the use of comprehensive work consignment to private sector for the road maintenance and management for Fuchu City, MLIT conducted a questionnaire survey (hereinafter referred to as ‘Survey regarding Fuchu City’s Social Infrastructure of Maintenance and Management Business for Contractors’) on contractors that had been commissioned a road or park maintenance and management business by Fuchu City in FY2013 $ ^{Note 46} $ .

60% of the contractors that replied had a business scale of 5-20 employees, and 50% answered that a high percentage of orders are from public authorities.

Figure 2-2-18 Consignee's Scope of Work

Work item	Work description
Patrol	Patrol plan creation
Implementation of daily patrol
Implementation of joint patrol with police officer
Patrol diary creation
Maintenance	Cleaning	Street cleaning
Cleaning of sludge in street inlets
Cleaning of pedestrian decks in front of the Fuchu Station
Planting management	Management of Babadaimon zelkova trees
Pruning of street trees and weeding under trees
Street lights management	Installation and management of street lights
Repair and renovation	Repair of damaged sites
Accident response	Documentation of accident handling
Repair work regarding accident handling
Collection of repair costs incurred from accident
Disaster response work	Implementation of emergency patrol
Implementation of local handling work
Claims and requests handling work	Confirmation of local situation of claimed or requested locations
Implementation of local handling work
Occupancy properties management work	Confirmation of illegally occupied properties local situation
Confirmation of illegal waste disposal local situation
Nonlegal public properties management work	Nonlegal public properties maintenance and management

Source) Fuchu City "Required Level Regarding the Consignment of Comprehensive Management of Roads, etc., around Peripheral Districts of Zelkova Trees Street"

Furthermore, the main areas of activity were in Fuchi City and its surrounding towns.

For the questions regarding ‘Comprehensive Work Consignment to Private Sector’ and of Fuchu City’s efforts to use comprehensive management consignment for roads, 50% of companies replied, “I know.” The response that the merit of this type of consignment was, “The multi-year contract makes it possible to forecast business volume,” had the highest

Advantages and Disadvantages of Comprehensive Work Consignment to Private Sector (for business operators in the city of Fuchu)

Note 46 The questionnaires list was sent to 41 companies that would be applicable as of March 2014, and was filled out and returned by 28 companies.