When SVT Sápmi visits Arjeplog, Christina Sundkvist shows around the library.
- We have a Pitesami shelf and it's great fun.
We have been involved and supported several of these books, she says.
Several Sami languages are spoken in the municipality.
On the library shelves are books in both Northern Lule, Ume and Pite Sami.
The municipality has been a Sami administrative area since 2000. This means that they have an increased obligation to offer services in Sami - for example through both preschool and elderly care.
"Want to spread the knowledge"
SVT Sápmi's review shows that a large part of the minority money the municipalities receive goes into the bureaucracy.
The money goes mostly to coordinate the efforts.
A much smaller part goes to the work they are actually intended for.
But in Arjeplog, the municipality has in recent years thought about.
When the previous coordinator left, the municipality chose to transfer the coordination to Sundkvist's already existing service.
Large sums were saved there every year - which can now go to both culture, preschool and elderly care in Sami.
- We want to spread the knowledge about the Sami to everyone in the municipality, says Sundqvist.
Arjeplog's municipal councilor Isak Utsi (S).
Photo: Anna-Karin Niia / SVT Sápmi
It is still not an easy task to live up to what is expected of an administrative municipality, states Isak Utsi (S) municipal councilor in Arjeplog.
He states that not everything can be solved with money.
- It is also a bigger issue, for example access to teachers and teacher materials and other things that we need to solve on an overall level that an individual municipality can not solve, he says.
Härjedalen - almost 80 percent on coordination
In Härjedalen, the approach is the opposite.
There, almost all minority money, 79 percent, is spent on coordinating efforts.
According to Härjedalen's municipal councilor Lars Gunnar Nordlander (S), it should still not be seen as a sign that the municipality is not doing what is required.
- I do not have the story back why we have chosen this approach.
I sit with the construction we have, he says.
But Nordlander emphasizes that it should not be seen as the municipality not doing what they are supposed to.
Instead, the municipality spends other funds on, among other things, preschool and elderly care, he says.
- There are more things that are added in addition to the grant.
So this does not reflect the totality of what we do, he says.
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In the clip, you see Härjedalen's municipal councilor Lars Gunnar Nordlander (S) about why the municipality spends almost 80 percent on coordination.
Photo: SVT Sápmi
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