Category: News

Property tax assessment notices can now be accessed on My Pages and on the service portal www.island.is. Those who wish to receive the assessment notice by post are advised to contact the Hafnarfjörður Customer Service Centre. There are ten general instalment dates for property taxes in 2016. The first instalment is due on 15 January 2016, followed by the 1st of each month from March onwards.

Bæjarstjórn Hafnarfjarðar gerir að tillögu sinni að formlegar samningaviðræður hefjist við Fasteignir ríkisins um kaup bæjarins á eignarhlut ríkisins í St. Jósefsspítala. Síðustu misseri hafa viðræður átt sér stað milli Hafnarfjarðarbæjar og Fjármálaráðuneytisins um framtíð bygginga St. Jósefsspítala en fasteignirnar voru auglýstar til sölu á síðasta ári. Meðal annars hafa viðræður milli bæjarins og ríkisins […]

A meeting of the Hafnarfjörður Town Council has been called for Wednesday 20 January 2016 at 16:00. The agenda for the town council meeting can be accessed here.

The Municipality of Hafnarfjörður subsidised the sports and leisure activities of children aged 6-16 by approximately 64.5 million in 2015. The distribution of subsidy grants from 2012-2015 was presented to the Education Committee last week. In total, the parents of 3,050 children used the council's leisure activity grant in 2015. Of these, just over 2,500 children received a subsidy for more than one course. In order for a course to be subsidised […]

The City of Hafnarfjörður and the non-profit organisation Specialisterne (Specialisterne in Iceland) recently entered into a six-month partnership agreement, effective from the next month. During this period, Specialisterne will provide suitable job training and job assessments to disabled jobseekers within the City of Hafnarfjörður, specifically to increase their chances of success in the general labour market. This is a pure addition to […]

The Education Committee has approved a proposal to the Town Council to increase the budget for purchasing books for the town's schools and for craft supplies by 50%, as well as to provide 700,000 krónur for a cinema visit.- and Book Festival for Children, which takes place this February. This is being done to further support the literacy project which is underway […]

Primary schools in Hafnarfjörður set their own reading objectives for each school year until 2020, which align with the municipality's overall performance targets. The goal-setting is part of improving academic achievement within the municipality and thereby promoting literacy, engagement and interest in learning across all subject areas and disciplines. A wide range of projects are being worked on, both adapted projects within […]

Tonight, Hafnarfjörður and Akureyri are competing in the quiz show Útsvar. This year's team for the municipality is the same one that competed successfully on behalf of the town last year. We send our best wishes to Guðlaug Kristjánsdóttir, Kristbjörn Gunnarsson and Karl Guðmundsson. Anyone interested can come to the television studio to watch the quiz show live […]

The Municipality of Hafnarfjörður invites tenders for the design and consultancy for the building and grounds of the proposed Care Home at Sólvang. The building is estimated to be 3,900 square metres and the site approximately 5,000 square metres. Bidders are also required to connect the new building to the existing care home. Annex 1 has been issued. Tender documents will be available for collection at the Hafnarfjörður Municipal Service Centre, Strandgata 6, Hafnarfjörður. Tenders must be submitted to Norðurhæll […]