The Mayor

The mayor’s tasks are to lead and supervise the administration and finances of the town, e.g.

• to supervise the activities of the local authority committees, executives, management boards, comissions, departments and offices and local government officials and to take action to rectify any mistakes or incongruities
• to lead the planning in the town and the development of the administration
• to supervise the preparation and execution of the matters that will be discussed by the town council, town executive and its sub-committees and to manage the presentation of the matters that will be discussed by the town executive and its sub-committees
• to lead and supervise the finances and accounting in the town
• to represent or to appoint someone else to represent the town at meetings and negotiations, unless the town executive has decided otherwise for individual occasions
• to see to that there is always someone representing the town at official receptions
• to appoint a town representative for duties and occasions where the interests of the town need to be looked after, and to give directions of action to the representative
• if needed to give regulations on the cooperation between the departments, offices and the central administration