Options for balancing the finances are presented to Janakkala’s municipal executive
The Janakkala municipal executive will have several alternative proposals to balance the municipality’s finances to decide on at its meeting on 12.1.2026.
The municipal executive decided in November 2025 to launch the preparation of a financial balancing program that must find savings of 0.5–1.0 M euros already this year. The savings measures in the balancing program consist of structural, permanent savings.
The chief executive proposes alternative savings for the financial balancing program, from which the municipal executive will decide the final program package for 2026. The euro amounts of the proposed savings are still estimates. Individual savings measures will be prepared in accordance with the guidelines of the balancing program and decided separately pursuant to the powers established in the rules of procedure.
The balancing program proposes savings by division. Savings could be achieved, for example, by cutting employee benefits and reducing training appropriations.
The technical division could save on private road subsidies, the maintenance of sports facilities and the procurement of expert services.
For the education division, alternative savings targets include cuts to after-school activity expenses, open early childhood education and liberal adult education, as well as additional cuts to the teaching-hour framework. In addition, the balancing program proposes the closure of 2–4 village schools.
In the wellbeing division, proposed savings include discontinuing the library car, merging libraries together, and closing the swimming hall in Tervakoski.
A proposal is presented to the Janakkala municipal executive to initiate cooperation negotiations
Alongside the financial balancing program, the chief executive proposes to the municipal executive that Janakkala municipality initiate cooperation negotiations for economic and production-related reasons. The negotiations aim to reduce personnel costs by at least 200,000€ in 2026 and by 700,000–1 M € from 2027 onwards. To achieve these savings, the workforce reduction need is 10–15 person-years. The negotiations would cover personnel from group services, the wellbeing division, the early childhood education result area of the education division, the technical division, and Janakkala Water, in total approx. 300 employees.
Janakkala’s growth and vitality will be strengthened with a renewed business services model
The chief executive proposes to the municipal executive to reform Janakkala municipality’s business services through a service agreement between Janakkala municipality and Janakkalan yrityskehitys Oy (Janakkala Business Development). The one-stop shop model aims to attract new companies and jobs to the municipality and to improve the accessibility of services intended for companies. The municipality’s business services must be easy to find; the service should be as agile as possible and professionally strong. The agreement model develops Janakkala’s business services in a more results-oriented direction. Pricing of the service agreement is based on a service fee of 3.46€ per inhabitant, which would be 55,000€ in total this year. The agreement model does not require additional appropriations to the approved 2026 budget.
Through the agreement, business services will be gathered into a clear entity under the lead responsibility of Janakkalan yrityskehitys Oy, and would, according to the proposal, provide the following services:
- advisory and start-up guidance services for new entrepreneurs
- site location services
- advisory and development services for existing companies
- financial advisory services
- business survey calls in cooperation with Janakkala municipality
- communication to companies operating in Janakkala; newsletter, social media
- marketing communications for companies locating here: location pages, social media
“The year 2026 begins with big issues. The municipal executive’s agenda contains several decisions that will cut expenses and seek new revenues. All of this is done for the benefit of the residents and the whole municipality. I hope we all show the courage called for by the new strategy,” says the chief executive Riikka Moilanen.
Agenda of the municipal executive meeting with attachments. (in Finnish)