Today, Friday 2nd October, is Prevention Day, an important part of local authorities' preventative work concerning alcohol and drug issues among young people. Schools in Hafnarfjörður have taken part in the day, with the focus on pupils in the 9th grade. Pupils work on prevention activities and are provided with various materials to familiarise themselves with and […]
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Hildur Bjarnadóttir appointed building control officer for the City of Hafnarfjörður.
Hildur graduated in architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in the United States in 1988. She is a certified designer under Article 25 of the Building Act and has extensive experience in construction. Hildur has worked as an architect, both independently and in firms, for over 20 years. She has management experience and has worked within the public sector. Hildur […]
Thorvaldur Sveinsson appointed planning officer
Thorvaldur graduated with a degree in architecture from Lund University in 1979, concurrently studying economic geography at the same institution. He completed a postgraduate degree in planning studies from the University of Manitoba in Canada in 1988. Thormodur is a registered architect and holds a licence as a building surveyor. He has worked as an architect for over 30 years and has […]
Town Council Meeting
A meeting of the Hafnarfjörður Town Council has been called for Wednesday, 30 September 2015. Agenda for the Town Council meeting on 30 September 2015. Town residents and other interested parties are encouraged to follow the meeting here on the website.
Sigríður Kristinsdóttir appointed town solicitor
Sigríður graduated with a law degree from the University of Iceland in 1989. She was admitted as a district court lawyer in 1994 and as a Supreme Court lawyer in 2013. She has worked in legal roles for the past 26 years, 21 of which have been as a lawyer. Sigríður has extensive knowledge of municipal affairs and has also worked within the public administration. Sigríður will start work around […]
Record applications for the after-school clubs
The after-school clubs have got off to a good start, and there are now 823 children using the service, which is over a hundred more than last autumn. This increase has meant that some after-school clubs now have several sites within the schools. Staffing has been successful for most sites, but there are still opportunities to join the team. Recently […]
The Hafnarfjörður Town Council urges the Althingi to lower the insurance levy.
At a meeting of the Hafnarfjörður town council today, a resolution was passed calling on the Althingi to reduce the 2016 insurance levy significantly more than was provided for in the draft budget. A memorandum presented at the meeting states that the insurance levy was 5.34% before the crash, but was raised to 7TP3T in 2009, at which time unemployment was […]
The association will campaign for a reduction in the commission charged by the state for the collection of council tax.
Mayor Haraldur L. Haraldsson has sent a letter to the Association of Icelandic Municipalities regarding the collection fee to the state for the collection of property tax, and the letter was presented at a meeting of the Hafnarfjörður Town Council today. The City of Hafnarfjörður has requested that the board of the Association of Icelandic Municipalities lobby the national treasury to have the collection fee to the state for the collection of property tax lowered and […]
Volunteer Day of the Hafnarfjörður Forestry Society
The annual volunteer day of the Hafnarfjörður Forestry Society will be on Sunday, 27th September from 11:00 to 13:00: Trees will be planted in the Vatnshlíð Grove by Lake Hvaleyrarvatn. Vatnshlíðarlundur is a memorial woodland dedicated to the couple Hjálmar R. Bárðarson and Else S. Bárðarson. Meet at Vatnshlíð, north of Hvaleyrarvatn, on the right-hand side as you drive down to the lake from Kaldárselsvegur. Refreshments will be served at Þöll at […]
Tablet implementation at Áslandsskóli
Since around New Year, preparations for the introduction of tablet computers at Ásland School have been well underway. This morning, the first devices were handed out when pupils in the school's Year 5 class received theirs. The children were excited to get their hands on the devices, and so were the teachers, who have been preparing their teaching since the New Year. „With this, […]