The City Council Executive Board Committees and Councils

The City Executive Board consists of committees and councils. The committees have the decision-making right, while the councils only have an advisory role.

According to municipal law, the City Council Executive Board should elect the committee representatives. 

Executive Board Committees

According to municipal law, the City Council Executive Board should elect the committee representatives. 

The committee shall on behalf of the city executive board decide in a specific group of matters. The city executive board is thus relieved of a number of more specialized and detailed issues, some of which are of a routine nature. The committee will be responsible for the ongoing follow-up of the committees' finances on behalf of the city executive board via monthly reports.

The committee decides on security-creating investments in the physical environment. The committee shall also, on behalf of the city executive board, follow up and evaluate the efforts of the committees and municipal companies in the area of public safety.

The committee is responsible for the city's personnel, equality and salary policy to the extent that the decision-making power has not been delegated to others, or is of such a principled nature that they are to be decided by the city executive board.

Executive Board Councils

The Council shall

  • monitor and advise how the city takes responsibility and works to develop the intentions of the 2030 Agenda work
  • support the city's operations to achieve the goal of being a leader in the implementation of the agenda
  • collaborate with the city's committees and company boards and produce reports, analyses and evaluations in order to support the city's operations in the implementation of Agenda 2030
  • be a referral body in strategic and city-wide matters.

KFS 2019:05, Instruction för the Council for the 2030 Agenda (pdf in Swedish)

Members of the Council

The council consists of 17 members who are appointed by the city executive board for one year at a time. Together, the council will represent a broad knowledge and experience in various areas related to Agenda 2030. The council consists of:

  • Elected politicians: The eight parties that have representation on the city executive board each have one member.
  • Experts: Nine members are special experts and are nominated by organisations in civil society, business and academia.

The city executive board appoints a chairman from among the elected members. The Council appoints the vice-chairman from among the expert members.

A review panel appointed by the city executive board, with two representatives from the majority and two from the opposition, proposes which of the nominated experts should be elected as members, and the city executive board decides who they will be.

The Council for Disability Issues acts as an advisory body on issues that have disability aspects for Stockholmers with disabilities of all ages.

The council 

  • acts as an advisory body on issues that have disability aspects
    initiates improvements for people with disabilities of all ages
  • has a supporting function for the city's committee and company-affiliated councils
  • can express views on the city's overall work with disability issues
    can comment on proposals for policy and steering documents that affect people with disabilities.

The Council cannot replace the right of individual disability organisations to cooperate under the Social Services Act (SoL), the Act on Support and Service for Certain Disabled People (LSS) and the Health and Medical Services Act (HoSL).

Members of the Council and meetings

The council is appointed by the city executive board and consists of eight members who are elected representatives and eight members and four alternates who represent the disability organisations. The nominations are coordinated by the City of Stockholm, which is a collaborative body for disability organizations in Stockholm.

The members of the Council are elected for four years and meet at least six times a year.

The Council for National Minorities shall act as an advisory body to strengthen the rights of national minorities and indigenous peoples in the City of Stockholm. The work is based on minority legislation.

The Council does not make decisions and matters concerning individuals may not be dealt with by the Council.

The Council shall

  • provide advice and support on strategic issues that are important for the rights of national minorities in the City of Stockholm
  • act as a referral body in strategic matters concerning the rights of national minorities in the City of Stockholm
  • monitor and follow up issues that affect the rights and life situation of national minorities.

Kfs 2024:10 Instruction for the Council for National Minorities (pdf in Swedish)

Members of the Council and meetings

The council is appointed by the city executive board and consists of 20 members. Five members are elected representatives and represent the city, three from the majority and two from the opposition.

Representatives of the national minorities are nominated by the national minorities' associations within civil society. A total of 15 members are elected to the Council, three members per national minority.

The members of the council are elected for the time decided by the municipal board. The Council meets at least four times a year.

The Council of Elderly Services is an advisory body with the aim of providing Stockholm's pensioners with influence and insight into general issues relating to the living conditions of the elderly.

The Council of Elderly Services operates through deliberations, consultations and mutual information between representatives of pensioners' organisations and the municipality's boards and committees. The council is not superior to the district committees' pensioners' councils.

The council will take the initiative for improvements for the city's pensioners, collaborate with the district committees' pensioners' councils and also cooperate with Region Stockholm's pensioners' council. The council is to be the referral body in matters of a fundamental nature and that affect the elderly in the city.

KFS 2007:15, Instruction for the Council of Elderly Services (pdf in Swedish)

Members of the Council and meetings

The council consists of nine members and nine alternates who are appointed by the city executive board for one year and administered by the elderly administration in accordance with the city council's instructions. 

The Minutes from the council of elderly services are reported to the elderly services committee.

Contact for the Council of Elderly Services 

Elderly Services Department
Telephone: 08-508 36 200 (switchboard) 
Email: aldreforvaltningen@stockholm.se

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