Longyearbyen Community Council is the
local government for
Longyearbyen in
Svalbard,
Norway. It has many of the same responsibilities of a
municipality. It is organized with a 15-member council which since 2011 has been led by Mayor
Christin Kristoffersen of the
Labour Party. The council's main responsibilities are infrastructure and utilities, including power, land-use and community planning, education from kindergarten to upper secondary level and child welfare. It operates three kindergartens in addition to the 13-grade
Longyearbyen School.