- Your guide to Torsby Municipality
- Welcome
- Some facts
- Torsby´s economy
- Local Democracy
- Public control and influence
- Our website
- Business Service
- Torsby Airport
- Pre-school and school
- Upper Secondary School
- Tourism Year-round
- Culture and libraries
- Leisure and recreation
- Torsby´s youth council
- Ski Tunnel and Valberget
- Social services
- Chief Guardian
- Consumer Guidance
- Budget Counselling
- Recycling and waste
- Contributions
How decisions are made in Torsby Municipality
The Municipality is responsible for schools, child-care, care of the elderly, water and sewers, streets, libraries, recreational facilities and much more. Managing this requires an organisation with both elected representatives and municipal administrators.
The law requires municipalities to provide certain services and utilities, while other services are not mandatory.
Local Democracy
In reality, the citizens themselves decide upon the means by which the municipality provides services and utilities to its citizens. But all 12 400 citizens cannot be involved in every decision. In municipal elections every four years, politicians are chosen to represent citizens and make decisions affecting their lives.
Between elections you can, through direct contact with politicians, influence the outcome of decisions. Your views are an important part of the democratic decision-making process.
A list of all local elected representatives (politicians) with addresses and telephone numbers to each is available on the municipal web site: www.torsby.se or can be obtained by calling 0560-160 66. You can also writ a so called “citizens proposal (medborgarförslag)". Read more on www.torsby.se
Decision processing in TorsbyMunicipality
Decisions can be made by either by the Municipal Council, the Municipal Executive Committee, Municipal Committees, sub-committees or administrators, depending on what is being decided upon.
When a politician, administrator or sub-committee makes a decision in a specific case, it is called a delegated decision. Such decisions are made according to the guidelines established by a municipal committee and a report on the decision is afterwards made to that committee.
Municipal Council
The Municipal Council is the highest decision-making branch of local government (“The Municipal Parliament"). The Municipal Council makes all of the important decisions regarding the functioning of local government. This includes deciding how many municipal committees are needed, taxation rates, and the extent of services to be provided by different administrative sectors within the municipality. The Municipal Council can delegate decision-making powers in some questions to the Municipal Executive Committee or to a municipal committee. The Municipal Council also elects representatives to sit on the Executive Committee, Municipal Committees and other committees.
Torsbys´ Municipal Council is comprised of 41 representatives from seven different political parties. Representatives are elected every four years by popular vote. Seats are awarded according to the proportion of votes received by each party. During the mandate period of 2011 — 2014, seven political parties are represented in the Municipal Council, as follows:
Political parties
Social Democrats (S) 19
Moderates (M) 8
Centre Party (C) 6
Left Party (V) 4
Christian Democrates (KD) 1
Green Party (MP) 1
Liberals (FP) 1
Sweden Democrates (SD) 1
Welcome to the Municipal Council
All sessions of the Municipal Council are open to the public and you are invited to attend and listen. Municipal Council meets once a month, normally on the last Tuesday of the month, in Torsby or Sysslebäck. Sessions start at 18.00.
There are no sessions during July and August.
Every session begins with “Questions from the public". Here is your chance to ask questions about services and utilities provided by the local government. The questions may be submitted in advance, but this is not required. You may ask questions yourself or have them read aloud by the chairperson. You are required to be there in person
The dates and location of Municipal Council meetings are announced in the local press.
All sessions will also be broadcast over local radio. Tune in to 100,6 Mhz in Torsby and 104,1 Mhz in Klarälvdalen.
Municipal Executive Committee
The Municipal Executive Committee is the “governing" branch of the local government. It is comprised of 11 delegates and 11 substitutes. The Executive Committee prepares matters to be decided upon in the Municipal Council and is responsible for administration of policies and services within the municipality.
The Executive Committee meets once a month and is responsible for financial planning, guided by long-term financial policy and the annual budget.
Moreover, the Executive Committee is responsible for comprehensive planning, implementation of information and technology, use of land and resources, employment strategy, communications and the tourist bureaus. Servicing and caretaking of streets, roads, water supply and other technical issues are also the responsibility of the MEC.
Municipal Committees and municipally owned companies
The elected representatives who sit on Municipal Committees must implement the decisions made by the Municipal Council and provide services and utilities to municipal residents. Municipally owned companies provide some services and utilities. From January 2011 there are six committees plus the Executive Committees:
· Executive Committee
· Child-care and Education Committee
· Social Services Committee
· Environment and Building Committee
· Committe of Crises Management(*)
· Elections Committee
· Chief Guardian Committe
(*) Committe of Crises Management is in operation only at instances of extraordinary events.
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