Linz City Senate

Mayor Dietmar Prammer (SPÖ)

Responsibilities

Spatial planning, urban development
Urban building construction matters
Housing matters
Real estate matters (including company parks)
Lift installations
School matters
EU subsidies
Matters of the Presidential Administration, unless specifically mentioned below
Media matters
Naming of traffic areas, municipal properties including parks and municipal schools
Declarations of owner consent for the private and public property of the City of Linz
Exercise of ownership powers for company participations of the City of Linz
Granting of subsidies and funding amounting up to 5,000 Euros in each case at the suggestion of the respective responsible city senate member, as well as department-specific subsidies and funding of over 5,000 Euros.
Other civil law matters
Other matters falling within the remit of the City Senate, unless another member of the City Senate has overriding departmental responsibility

Responsibilities

Social affairs including voluntary social assistance and other voluntary social services, youth and family care, youth health care and the initiation and dimensioning of social services
Care for the elderly (incl. planning of senior citizens' centres)
Matters relating to the ‘Kinder- und Jugend-Services Linz’ (KJS) organisation
Matters relating to children's and youth playgrounds
Sports-related matters
Department-specific subsidies and funding amounting to more than 5,000 Euros in each case

Responsibilities

Planning, construction and maintenance of traffic areas including bridge construction
Other transport planning measures
Traffic facilities
Local road police
Market affairs
Department-specific subsidies and funding amounting to more than EURO 5,000 in each case

Responsibilities

Financial matters (including the parking space management zones)
Asset management, including shareholdings
Personnel matters
LGBTIQ* matters
Matters pertaining to the promotion of integration
Department-specific subsidies and funding amounting to more than 5,000 Euros in each case

Responsibilities

Matters pertaining to the promotion of women’s issues
Climate matters, with the exception of industry and hydrogen technology
Nature conservation and environmental protection matters
Matters pertaining to hydraulic engineering, including the renaturation of bodies of water
Matters pertaining to industrial operational facilities
Matters pertaining to the city’s parks, gardens, green spaces and forests of the city
Matters pertaining to city nursery
Design and maintenance of the traffic green, planning of the traffic green spaces (right of codecision concerning location and dimension)
Matters pertaining to the road maintenance including winter service
Educational matters, including those pertaining to the Volkshochschule Linz (adult education centre) and the libraries, with the exception of school matters
Matters pertaining the archive
Department-specific subsidies and funding amounting to more than 5,000 Euros in each case

Responsibilities

Matters pertaining to civil defence and disaster relief (except the chairmanship of the civil protection advisory board)
Matters pertaining to professional, volunteer and company fire brigades
Matters pertaining to the local fire police
Monitoring of business hours, closing times and trade and commerce regulations for the hospitality industry (decision in the second instance and performance of the tasks the procedural provisions of the higher authorities in matters pursuant to in matters pursuant to Section 113 para. 3 to 5 GewO), matters pursuant to § 76a section 9 GewO
Security matters of the city of Linz including the local security police
Other administrative police agendas, insofar as they are not assigned to other members of the City Senate
Matters pertaining to city partnerships
Matters pertaining to health care
Department-specific subsidies and funding amounting to more than 5,000 Euros in each case

Resoponsibilities

Economic development matters including location development and labor market development (including apprenticeship training)
Matters relating to the promotion of science and innovation
Innovation management
Industry and hydrogen technology
Matters relating to the Climate Office
Matters relating to digitalization
Matters relating to universities and universities of applied sciences
Waste management matters
Department-specific subsidies and funding amounting to more than 5,000 Euros in each case

Responsibilities