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 […]
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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, […]
Take part in Active Week
The UMFÍ „MOVE WEEK“ is a European campaign that aims to promote the benefits of regularly taking part in physical activity and sport. The Healthy Town of Hafnarfjörður is taking part in the project. The Haukar running group is holding an open training session, the seniors' association is organising walks and gymnastics, the Flensborg Run and the Health Centre are offering health checks, to name but a few. […]
Innovation in employment for disabled people
At a meeting of the Family Council of Hafnarfjörður on 11 September 2015, it was agreed to allocate funding for a one-year pilot project on innovation in employment for disabled people in Hafnarfjörður. The project is being carried out in consultation with the Employment Authority. Guðlaug Kristjánsdóttir, chair of the Family Council, says that a pilot workshop will be established with the aim of creating opportunities for disabled people to […]
Town Council Meeting, 16 September
A meeting of the Hafnarfjörður Town Council has been called for Wednesday, 16 September. Agenda for the Town Council meeting on 16 September 2015. Town residents and other interested parties are encouraged to follow the meeting here on the website.
European Mobility Week 2015
Programme 2015 9 – 22 September Cycle to School – students and staff of the country's secondary schools compete against each other to use an active mode of transport most often to and from school. Further information. (Opens in a new browser tab) Wednesday 16 September – Reykjavík Day of Icelandic Nature Opening of the week – Cycling programme presented 11:00–14:00. Event on Bankastræti – nursery school children come […]
Great young people from Hafnarfjörður
At a meeting of the Education Committee yesterday, Geir Bjarnason, Sports and Leisure Officer, presented a report from Rannsóknir og greining, commissioned by the Ministry of Education, which deals with substance use among pupils in the upper years of Hafnarfjörður's primary schools. Since 2003, the City of Hafnarfjörður has received a special breakdown of this survey, analysing the data for each individual school. This has made it possible to […]
Minutes of the Presidential Commission
At a meeting of the President's Committee of Hafnarfjörður Municipality last Monday, the draft of a new by-law on the administration of the Borough of Hafnarfjörður and the rules of procedure for the Borough Council were discussed, along with the draft regulations for the Port of Hafnarfjörður. Attached to the minutes were notes from the Legal and Welfare Department and the Economic and Information Department of the Association of Icelandic Local Authorities regarding a working document that had been in preparation within the city's administration and never came to fruition […]