Mr Wen, who is head of the project's construction committee, came in 2003.
Lupolianksi was head of the planning and construction committee when the Holyland project was approved.
The ministry's planning and construction committee published its decision in Israeli newspapers on Wednesday in what the spokeswoman described as a purely bureaucratic step toward "expansion of an existing settlement".
A design and construction committee would be composed of the operating heads of all constituents, people like Mr. Volpe rather than volunteer board members, and would review issues like a new hall for City Opera and a proposed new visitor center.
"If someone had offered us a Calder mobile or something in stained glass, or even something in light, we probably would have declined the offer," said Jane Houser, a member of the group's planning and construction committee.
The capital spiritual civilisation construction committee, the Communist party office that tried — and failed — to make the 2008 Olympic Games spit-free, has hired the elderly dancers to wage war on jaywalking, another bad habit in Beijing.
Sun Qingde, an official on Harbin's construction committee, was quoted by Xinhua as saying that the ramp "tilted to one side and crashed onto the ground".
"We'll end up losing our business," Cynthia Brown of the To the Top Entertainment agency told the MTA's construction committee.
The construction committee, appointed in 1861, selected and purchased a parcel of land at the corner of Maria Valeria Street (now Praška Street) and Ban Jelačić Square, the central town square.
So as prices have outstripped budgets, building committees, construction managers and designers have literally not only been sent back to the drawing board, but towns are asking taxpayers for more money or seeking more from federal or state funds.
