Birgi Hafnarfjörður regrets errors in the delivery of documents

 Following the news report by Stöð 2 in
Regarding last night's discussion on the delivery of educational materials at Víðistaðaskóli, the City of Hafnarfjörður wishes to establish
provide the following: 

As has been reported in the news
Both in the summer and now in September, it was approved by the Education Committee.
The City of Hafnarfjörður proposes that primary school education in the municipality should be free of charge.
The decision was non-partisan; subsequently, the project was put out to tender and was won by Penninn Eymundsson.
with the most favourable offer and also undertook to provide the data.

It was clear that time was short but the town
and the supplier managed to provide the data in time. The first few weeks at the beginning
At the beginning of the school year, the goods were delivered to schools in Hafnarfjörður steadily.
month, when the schools in town were supposed to have received all the goods, it went
that it emerged the handover of data had failed at Víðistaðaskóli.

Despite comments from the school and
The supplier believed that the staff at the town's Education and Leisure Service thought that the products
had arrived or were on their way. It was debated for an unnecessarily long time and
The patience of the teachers and staff of the school ran out at the end of last week. In the aftermath
The supplier realised that a human error had been made on their part.
the delivery process, and he then immediately set about completing the delivery.

As soon as it was clear, he left.
The mayor is meeting with the school's teachers and staff to communicate.
We thank them for keeping the school running under these circumstances.
The meeting also discussed what lessons could be learned from this to improve processes.
for next year.

Representatives of Penn have come forward
both with the school management and other staff involved in the process that they
He regrets this unfortunate mistake and now everything will be done to put it right.
Penn delivered the largest part of the unprocessed data this morning and it is now being processed.
working hard to get the data into the classrooms for the children. The rest
will be handed over in the afternoon.

This series of events, however, is such that
Hafnarfjörður plans to review its internal procedures and see if there is anything
which could have handled communication with the supplier better and that the experience can be learnt from.
into the preparations for the next winter.  

Following this, a will be put together
a working group composed of representatives of teachers, headteachers, the Education and
recreational services and elected representatives to prepare tenders, procurement and
delivery of materials for the next school year.

Mayor, department heads, head teachers and
The management of Víðistaðaskóli finds it important to state that the teachers in
the school have done particularly well and been resourceful with these
the circumstances, and it is to them that the success of the school's work is due. They have
Credit is due for that, and so are the students who have been positive, even though they have
Regretting not having received all the school materials straight away.