Boroughs of Stockholm

Boroughs of Stockholm

Stockholm Municipality, Sweden is sudivided into 14 "stadsdelsområden" (roughly "city district areas"). The term is sometimes incorrectly translated to "borough". But they are really no boroughs, as they are no legal entities or juristic persons of their own, but organs of the central municipal administration. The members of the district committees ("stadsdelsnämnder") are appointed by the kommunfullmäktige (municipal assembly) and not by the electorates of the respective "boroughs". They therefore represent the political majority of the municipality as a whole. The English term used by the Municipality on its own home page is "District Council" [http://www.stockholm.se/-/English/Politics-and-organisation/Organisation-/District-Councils-/]

The district areas were created in 1997 in order to decentralize the municipal administration. The number of areas was already in 1998 reduced from 24 to 18. The next reduction took place in 2007, and the number is now 14. Certain tasks (e.g. responsibility for the school system) have also been recentralized.

Responsibilities

*Consumer advisory
*Elderly services
*Income support, budgetary counselling & debt restructing
*Local business and labour market initiatives
*Local urban environment issues
*Maintenance of parks
*Pre-schools

Today, the following "stadsdelsområden" are in operation:


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