{"id":14242,"date":"2020-04-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/gjafabref-a-goda-skemmtun-i-hjarta-hafnarfjardar\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:03:04","slug":"a-gift-voucher-for-a-great-time-in-the-heart-of-the-harbour-fjord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/gjafabref-a-goda-skemmtun-i-hjarta-hafnarfjardar\/","title":{"rendered":"A gift voucher for a good time in the heart of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The staff of the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur have in recent days and weeks<br \/>\nunited in the important task of maintaining the council's services as<br \/>\nmust be maintained at all civil contingency preparedness levels. Thus,<br \/>\nthe human resources have embarked on an unknown path of new challenges which have called for a review<br \/>\nand a restructuring of the services provided and the flexibility in the work of the staff who attended<br \/>\nhas undertaken tasks with great diligence and serenity. In light of everything, it was decided that<br \/>\nTo delight all council staff with a gift voucher for a good night out.<br \/>\nThe harbour is almost finished.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201eIt has been<br \/>\nIt's incredible to see how the council staff, without any warning,<br \/>\n responded to changed circumstances and<br \/>\nan environment that was unfamiliar to us all. It<br \/>\nIt is thanks to this group that we have managed to keep going, with an unchanged or changed<br \/>\nin the form of all services defined as socially important\u201c <\/em>says<br \/>\nR\u00f3sa Gu\u00f0bjartsd\u00f3ttir, Mayor of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. Staff are now receiving their Easter bonuses.<br \/>\nTo open a gift voucher for 5,000 kr\u00f3na at B\u00e6jarb\u00ed\u00f3, given by his town.<br \/>\na concert or entertainment of their choice when the lockdown has been lifted. <em>\u201eWith this gift, we want to kill two birds<br \/>\nin one fell swoop. Delight our staff who truly deserve it and lay<br \/>\nour contribution to bringing the cultural and civic life of which we are so proud<br \/>\nRight, back in action after this demanding project. There will also undoubtedly be many<br \/>\nemployees who choose to go out to eat before redeeming the gift voucher and<br \/>\neven buy themselves something nice to wear. We can all start to look forward to it.<br \/>\nto have fun together and enjoy all that our town has to offer<br \/>\noffer retail, services and entertainment,\u201c <\/em>says R\u00f3sa.<em>   <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viderumhjartahafnarfjardar-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"We are the heart of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2048px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2048\/1366;\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Everyone has put on<br \/>\none and that is something to be thankful for<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The municipality provides socially important services that<br \/>\nmust never be broken and has placed a great deal of demand on staff, e.g. family and<br \/>\nthe Department for Children's Affairs since the Covid-19 pandemic first made its presence felt, among other things.<br \/>\nrestructuring of social activities and employment opportunities for disabled people,<br \/>\nsocial activities for older people to ensure their engagement and social connections,<br \/>\nhome services and the role of child protection in resolving cases with new and amended<br \/>\ncircumstances that are likely to increase anxiety and worry among certain groups.<br \/>\nStaff of the Department of Education and Public Health, and including staff of nursery and<br \/>\nThe primary school has then pulled together to organise a reduced school programme in unison.<br \/>\nat the request of the authorities. Other services; e.g. cultural institutions and swimming pools,<br \/>\nwas carried on in a modified form until the lockdown was tightened and it was necessary to come.<br \/>\nto closure. The staff of these establishments have been assigned other duties.<br \/>\nin addition to a certain group being on call should illness occur elsewhere in<br \/>\nthe system.<em> \u201eStaff of the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur<br \/>\nhas repeatedly shown over the years how powerful it is in different and diverse<br \/>\ntheir duties which call for active<br \/>\ncooperation. And no less how well-coordinated and strong the group can be when<br \/>\nThe wind is blowing against it. That has become apparent over the last few days, and for that I am extremely<br \/>\ngrateful\u201c<\/em> R\u00f3sa says at last.&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starfsf\u00f3lk Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6jar hefur s\u00ed\u00f0ustu daga og vikur lagst \u00e1 eitt \u00ed \u00fev\u00ed mikilv\u00e6ga verkefni a\u00f0 halda \u00fati \u00fej\u00f3nustu sveitarf\u00e9lagsins sem ver\u00f0ur a\u00f0 haldast \u00f3rofin \u00e1 \u00f6llum vi\u00f0b\u00fana\u00f0arstigum almannavarna. \u00deannig hefur mannau\u00f0urinn feta\u00f0 saman \u00f3\u00feekktan veg n\u00fdrra \u00e1skorana sem kalla\u00f0 hafa \u00e1 endursko\u00f0un og uppstokkun \u00e1 veittri \u00fej\u00f3nustu og sveigjanleika \u00ed starfi starfsf\u00f3lks sem m\u00e6tt hefur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17431,"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-14242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242","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=14242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14242"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}