The stewardship governance can be applied to any public task, in any territory, whatever its size. It creates no new body and no new task. It describes how the tasks that already exist are prepared, decided and carried out – across departments, with named responsibility, and documented from end to end.
Each page below covers one part. They build on one another but can be read on their own.
the council
The council that already exists keeps the final word, and gains a five-year development plan that is rolled forward every year instead of being adopted anew. Rules on qualified majorities, named votes and where responsibility sits make decisions that last beyond the next election.
future forum
Residents drawn by lot, organisations and the administration work out a proposal for a fundamental question, tested against the assessed developments and with its financing proven. The forum decides nothing; it hands the council something the council can act on.
project teams
Project teams work out the concrete solutions and carry them through to implementation, with their own budget and a responsibility matrix that names a person and a deputy for every duty. The staff office sits with the administration’s leadership and keeps the teams connected across departments.
how decisions are made
Consent instead of narrow majorities: no objection without an alternative, and every objection worked into the proposal rather than outvoted. The same procedure is used by forums and project teams, which is why it has a page of its own.
baseline 0 and gaps
Full performance of a duty is the zero state – not a target to aspire to, but the normal condition that is owed. Every deviation is published as a gap, with the way to close it, its cost and the office responsible, and ranked by how urgently it has to be closed.
safety and hazard prevention
The first field worked out in full: five dimensions of safety, a hierarchy of measures from removing a hazard to intervening after the event, and the distinction between an intervention deficit that can be funded and a residual risk that genuinely cannot. With the hazard catalogue every authority works through.
the Stewardship Governance Act
The act makes the model binding. It can be introduced as a municipal by-law, a service instruction, a condition of procurement or legislation, and a large part of it applies before that without any change in law.