{"id":12608,"date":"2015-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/andvirdi-solu-hlutabrefa-notad-til-ad-borga-nidur-skuldir\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T08:58:18","slug":"the-proceeds-from-the-sale-of-shares-were-used-to-pay-down-debts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/andvirdi-solu-hlutabrefa-notad-til-ad-borga-nidur-skuldir\/","title":{"rendered":"Proceeds from the sale of shares used to pay down debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<em>\u201cThe Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Town Council unanimously agreed at its meeting today to use the proceeds from the sale of shares in HS Veitur to pay down the town's debt, which is in line with the council's focus on strengthening the town's financial position,\u201c says Mayor Haraldur L. Haraldsson.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Town Council approved at its meeting today a proposal from the HS Veitur shareholders' meeting to purchase its own shares from shareholders in accordance with the resolution of the shareholders' meeting of 19 January 2015.<\/p>\n<p>At a town council meeting, it was agreed to use the sum, of around 300 million kr\u00f3nur, to pay down the principal of the council's long-term loans.<\/p>\n<p>The finance manager and the mayor were also tasked with examining how this sum could be best utilised in light of the interest costs and prepayment charges, which vary across the council's loan commitments, and making a recommendation to the council's executive committee on how to deploy the funds.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;&#8220; B\u00e6jarstj\u00f3rn Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar sam\u00feykkti samhlj\u00f3\u00f0a \u00e1 fundi s\u00ednum \u00ed dag a\u00f0 nota andvir\u00f0i s\u00f6lu hlutabr\u00e9fa \u00ed HS Veitum til a\u00f0 borga ni\u00f0ur skuldir b\u00e6jarins og er \u00fea\u00f0 \u00ed takt vi\u00f0 \u00fe\u00e1 \u00e1herslu b\u00e6jarstj\u00f3rnarinnar a\u00f0 efla fj\u00e1rhagsst\u00f6\u00f0u b\u00e6jarins\u201c segir Haraldur L. Haraldsson b\u00e6jarstj\u00f3ri. B\u00e6jarstj\u00f3rn Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar sam\u00feykkti \u00e1 fundi s\u00ednum \u00ed dag till\u00f6gu hluthafafundar HS Veitna um [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12608"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}