The Läntinen Pirkanmaa employment area consists of the municipality of Hämeenkyrö, the city of Ikaalinen, the municipality of Kihniö, the city of Parkano, the municipality of Punkalaitumen and the city of Sastamala. The municipalities have approved and signed a cooperation agreement, by which the contracting municipalities commit to jointly implement public employment services and related tasks as the Läntinen Pirkanmaa employment area from 1 January 2025 in accordance with the Organization Act (Law on the Organization of Employment Services). The city of Sastamala acts as the responsible municipality for the employment area and its employment board as the employment authority required by law.

The cooperation agreement is an agreement on a joint institution of municipalities pursuant to Section 52 of the Local Government Act and concerns the responsibility for organizing employment services as provided for in the Act on the Organization of Employment Services. In accordance with Section 8, subsection 2 of the Local Government Act, the responsible municipality is responsible for equal access to services and other measures, for determining the need, quantity and quality, for the method of production, for supervising production and for exercising the authority vested in the authority.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 8, subsection 2, paragraph 5 of the Local Government Act, the municipality responsible for the organisation may agree on the exercise of the competence of the employment authority referred to in the Act, in accordance with the provisions of section 54 of the Local Government Act on an agreement for the performance of an official duty (Act on the Organisation of Employment Services, section 13).

The actual operations of the Western Pirkanmaa employment area have been actively prepared by the municipalities in the employment area during this year. The preparation has revealed the need to make some additions and clarifications to the cooperation agreement between the municipalities. According to Chapter 17 of the cooperation agreement, the agreement can be amended by unanimous decisions of the municipal councils of the cooperation area.

Appendix 1 contains a revised draft of the cooperation agreement, in which proposed additions are marked in red font and the sections to be deleted are marked in yellow and crossed out.

Employment Coordinator Kaija Rönni will present the matter.

Responsibility for organizing employment services will be transferred to municipalities in accordance with the Act on the Organization of Employment Services (380/2023) on 1 January 2025.

The City of Sastamala and the Municipality of Punkalaitumen have, together with the Municipality of Hämeenkyrö, the City of Ikaalinen, the Municipality of Kihniö and the City of Parkano, concluded an agreement on a joint municipal body pursuant to Section 52 of the Local Government Act (410/2015). The agreement concerns the responsibility for organizing employment services as provided for in the Act on the Organization of Employment Services. The municipalities committed to this cooperation model and agreement form a cooperation area pursuant to the aforementioned Act, i.e. the Läntinen Pirkanmaa employment area.

In the West Pirkanmaa employment area, the city of Sastamala acts as the responsible municipality in accordance with Section 51 of the Local Government Act, and its employment board acts as the employment authority required by law. In accordance with Section 8, Paragraph 2 of the Local Government Act, the responsible municipality is responsible for equal access to services and other measures, for determining the need, quantity and quality, for the method of production, for supervising production, and for exercising the authority's powers.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 8, subsection 2, paragraph 5 of the Local Government Act, the municipality responsible for the organisation may agree on the exercise of the competence of the employment authority referred to in the Act, in accordance with the provisions of section 54 of the Local Government Act on an agreement for the performance of an official duty (Act on the Organisation of Employment Services, section 13).

According to the employment area cooperation agreement, a responsibility area can be formed within the employment area from two or more municipalities. The City of Parkano and the Municipality of Kihniö form a responsibility area within the employment area in accordance with the cooperation agreement, through which the City of Parkano provides public employment and business services in accordance with the Organization Act (380/2023) and some of the integration services in accordance with the Integration Act (681/2023) for the Municipality of Kihniö. The main service point is the service point located in the city center of Parkano. Services are also provided at a local service point designated by the Municipality of Kihniö. Services that are not provided as local services are provided as centralized services either by the responsible municipality or another employment area. Services are provided equally throughout the employment area.

Employment Coordinator Kaija Rönni will present the matter.

EMPLOYMENT ACT 11.11.2024 Section 30

480/04.03.01.00/2024

The Act on the Promotion of Integration (681/2023, hereinafter referred to as the integration law) provides for the municipal integration program.

The Ministry of Employment and the Economy (TEM) has issued instructions to municipalities in a letter dated 19 June 2024 on the organisation of an integration programme in accordance with the Integration Act in the municipality and on the conditions for the payment of compensation under the Integration Act from 1 January 2025. The integration programme and the document describing it are a condition for the payment of compensation under the Integration Act.

An integration programme is a service package for the initial phase of integration organised by the municipality, the minimum content of which is laid down in Section 13 of the Integration Act.

The integration program must include at least:

-assessment of the need for skills and integration services or assessment of the need for multidisciplinary skills and integration services,

-an integration plan to be drawn up based on the previous one and its multidisciplinary version,

-multilingual social orientation,

-integration training and the language proficiency test included in it,

-other education and services that promote Finnish and Swedish language skills, literacy, social and working life skills, as well as employment and entrepreneurship

-guidance and advice during the integration program.

In addition to the minimum content, the municipality can also develop its own services as part of the integration program.

The municipality must prepare a document on the service package of the integration program, describing the services in the initial phase of integration, the parties responsible for the services, and cooperation with other actors related to the services.

The employment authority is responsible for arranging the services included in the integration programme for immigrants who are job seekers and integrated clients. The municipality itself determines which party in the municipality is responsible for arranging the services included in the integration programme for those outside the labour force. The integration programme or part of it may also be implemented in cooperation between several municipalities or employment authorities.

The Ministry of Employment and the Economy's letter to municipalities reminds that the payment of compensation under the Integration Act requires an integration program, a document describing it, and an agreement with the ELY Centre as of 1 January 2025. The KEHA Centre will check that the municipalities meet the above-mentioned conditions for payment of compensation for January 2025.

The municipality must submit a document describing the integration program to the registry of the ELY Centre in its area by December 5, 2024 at the latest.

The starting point in the organizational plan and preparation of the reform of the Western Pirkanmaa employment area (Kihniö, Parkano, Ikaalinen, Hämeenkyrö, Sastamala and Punkalaidun) has been that integration services will be provided in part centrally in the employment area. All statutory services of the employment authority are centralized services and some of the statutory tasks of the municipality will be provided centrally in the municipalities that have signed the employment area agreement.

The preparation of the integration program in the municipalities of the employment area has been coordinated by the city of Sastamala. Experts from different sectors from all municipalities in the employment area have participated in the preparation of the integration program. The integration program includes a common section for all municipalities in the employment area, which describes all statutory measures agreed to be implemented centrally, and after the common section, the municipality-specific sections are described.

The accompanying material is the integration program for the Western Pirkanmaa employment region.

According to the Integration Act, the integration program does not need to be separately approved, but it will still be submitted to the Employment Board for consideration.

Prepared by: Director of Administration Tapio Rautava, Head of Employment Services Tiina Leppäniemi, International and Integration Coordinator Pirjo Raunio

Rapporteur: Head of Employment Services

Proposal for a decision The Employment Board decides, for its part, to note the accompanying material for the integration programme of the Western Pirkanmaa employment area, to propose that the programme be processed by other municipalities in the employment area, and to submit the programme to the Pirkanmaa ELY Centre. The integration programme will be updated if necessary by the employment area's integration and other experts, and updates do not need to be submitted separately to the institutions for consideration.

Decision Approved unanimously.

For more information, please contact International and Integration Coordinator Pirjo Raunio, tel. 040 620 9264

The framework target set for the municipal government's profit area was -1.254.967 euros for operating margin. The operating margin in the budget proposal is approximately 85.000 euros better. The budget is tight and requires careful financial management. The transfer of Te services to the municipalities will increase costs. 369.000 euros have been reserved for employment management.

The TA 2025 proposal includes the savings proposals of the economic balancing program:

• Reducing the number of shop stewards
• Halving the grants distributed by the municipal government
• Stopping invitation traffic
• Halving the vitality development fund
• Adaptation of the Development Park service
• Other smaller savings targets

Appendix 4: Municipal Government's budget proposal for 2025 and planning years 2026-2027

Kihniö municipality is involved in the management of the environmental health care cooperation area by the city of Sastamala. Environmental health care services include veterinary and health surveillance services. Kihniö belongs to area 2, which includes Parkano and Ikaalinen in addition to Kihniö.

According to clause 11 of the agreement, a municipality has the right to terminate the environmental health care cooperation agreement by giving written notice to the other municipalities at least one calendar year before the termination takes effect. Termination always occurs at the change of the calendar year.

The Kihniö environmental health care contract is too expensive for Kihniö. In Region 2, which includes Kihniö, it has been agreed that the costs of veterinary care will be divided equally between Kihniö, Parkano and Ikaalinen, i.e. 1/3 of the costs.

Due to the above, it is in Kihniö's best interests to terminate the current agreement and begin negotiations with the environmental health care units of other surrounding municipalities.

According to the Local Government Act, ownership steering must ensure that the overall interests of the municipal group are taken into account in the operations of a municipal subsidiary.

Kihniön Vesi ja Lämpö Oy's owner control has been strengthened by including a provision in the articles of association that changes to water charges charged to customers require the approval of the general meeting. The provision in the articles of association is based on Chapter 5, Section 2 of the Limited Liability Companies Act. According to the section of the law, the articles of association may stipulate that the general meeting decides on a matter falling within the general competence of the CEO and the board of directors. In practice, decision-making in the matter in question would take place in such a way that the decision would be made by the municipal board, which would provide group control to the general meeting representative for decision-making at the general meeting. When exercising the decision-making power in question, the municipal board must take into account the responsibilities and obligations imposed on the board of directors of a limited liability company by the Limited Liability Companies Act and the provisions of the Water Management Act.

Juha-Matti Markkola has been elected as a representative at the Annual General Meeting for the 2021-2025 election period.

The mayor presents and provides information on current issues and events that are pending and in preparation.

The mayor presents the financial situation at the meeting.

According to the municipal administrative regulations, meetings of the institution are held at a time and place decided by the institution. A meeting is also held when the chairman deems a meeting necessary or when a majority of the members of the institution submit a proposal to the chairman to hold one.

According to Section 1 of the Pre-emption Act (5.8.1977/608), a municipality has a right of pre-emption in the sale of real estate located in the municipality in order to acquire land for community development and for recreational and conservation purposes. The right of pre-emption means the municipality's right to redeem the sold real estate for the purchase price agreed upon by the seller and the buyer. When using the pre-emption, the municipality takes the place of the buyer and acquires ownership of the area that is the subject of the sale under the terms of the deed of sale.

The municipality must also compensate the buyer for direct costs related to the transaction and pay interest on the costs in accordance with Section 3, Subsection 2 of the Interest Act (633/1982). According to Section 21 of the Pre-emption Act, the city government decides on the exercise of the pre-emption right. The decision must be made and the registration authority, i.e. the Land Survey, notified of it within three months of the certification of the transfer deed.

The decision must be given without delay as a demonstrable notification to the buyer and seller.

Attached material: property transfer list

Real estate transfer notices:

9 property transfer notices

Official decisions:

Municipal Mayor §

Director of Finance and Administration §

Financial Manager § -

Education and Welfare Board 13.11.2024

§ 80 Legality and quorum of the meeting

§ 81 Selection of the minutes inspectors

§ 82 Granting school transport to residents of other localities

§ 83 Budget for 2025 and financial plan for 2026-2027

§ 84 Reform of the selection of sports award recipients

§ 85 Budget implementation report 01.01. - 30.09.2024

§ 86 Decisions of office holders

§ 87 Notification and other matters

Technical Committee13.11.2024

§ 91 Legality and quorum of the meeting

§ 92 Selection of the minutes inspectors

§ 93 Hearing before judgment / real estate RN:o 250-405-19-2

§ 94 Application for a driving training track in accordance with Section 30 of the Off-Road Traffic Act, Aitoneva, Kihniö

§ 95 Environmental permit decision regarding the Kankari shooting range / Kankari Hunting Association

§ 96 Building in poor condition on property 250-403-12-43

§ 97 Building in poor condition on property 250-407-3-60

§ 98 The matter was removed from the agenda

§ 99 The matter was removed from the agenda

§ 100 Aitoneva solar power plant project, statement on the EIA needs assessment

§ 101 Renewal of building regulations, initiation and participation and evaluation plan

§ 102 Financial performance 1.1 - 31 March 2024

§ 103 Technical Committee budget proposal for 2025, financial plan for 2026-2027

and budget text 2025

§ 104 Current affairs

§ 105 The matter was removed from the agenda