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City Council is the highest decision-making body of the City of Reykjavik. City Council has 23 City Councilors and 23 Deputy City Councilors.
City Council meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month, and meetings are open to the public. Residents can view City Council meetings live on the Reykjavik website or from auditoriums in City Hall.
According to the Act on Local Government, City Council has the decision-making power on the use of Reykjavik City revenues and on the implementation of the tasks entrusted to the municipality. It shall ensure that the provisions of the Act on Local Government are enforced, as well as the City of Reykjavik's regulations and resolutions. City Council may pass resolutions on each of the issues it considers to be of concern to the City of Reykjavik. The Resolution on the Administration of the City of Reykjavik and the Rules of Procedure for City Council lists the main tasks:
City Council meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month at City Hall at 2 PM. Meetings of City Council are held open to the public unless otherwise decided. Meetings may be canceled for up to two months in the summer.
The meetings of City Council are streamed live online.
Pursuant to the Resolution on the City Council, the following matters may be included in the agenda:
City Council elects a president and four vice-presidents from the ranks of city councilors for one year at a time. The President of City Council is Þórdís Lóa Þórhallsdóttir.
The President of City Council convenes City Council Meetings. The President draws up the agenda for the meetings in consultation with the Mayor and the Presidium. The President of City Council presides over the deliberations of its meetings. The President calls the meeting to order, confirms its legality, presides over discussions and deliberations, and suspends meetings when the agenda is exhausted. The President ensures that the minutes of the meeting are recorded and that all proposals and resolutions are correctly and accurately recorded along with decisions made.
City Council elects two clerks and two deputy clerks from City Council for one year at a time. Clerks have the role of counting votes together at the time of voting and are responsible for the completion of the minutes of the meeting with the President of City Council. Aðalsteinn Haukur Sverrisson and Trausti Breiðfjörð Magnússon are the Clerks of City Council. The Deputy Clerks are Árelía Eydís Guðmundsdóttir and Sanna Magdalena Mörtudóttir.
City Council meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month at City Hall at 12 noon.
Meetings of City Council are held open to the public unless otherwise decided. Meetings may be cancelled for up to two months in the summer.