Be the Mayor of Bern

Bern, Switzerland · 140,000 people · Heritage City

The City of Bern Building and Public Works Directorate and the Federal Chancellery Infrastructure Office jointly preserve the UNESCO-listed medieval arcaded old town, manage the Aare river swimming infrastructure, maintain the 6 km of covered Lauben arcades, and fund seismic retrofits of the 15th-century Zytglogge Clock Tower.

The seat for Bern on the Board of Mayors is open. Seat #1 is yours to take.

The city

Landmark: Federal Palace & Zytglogge Clock Tower.

• The Building Directorate maintains the world's longest covered shopping promenade — 6 km of medieval sandstone arcades (Lauben) — requiring annual masonry inspection, drainage management, and heritage grade lighting upgrades across the entire UNESCO old town.
• The Aare River Infrastructure Office installs and certifies outdoor river swimming facilities used by tens of thousands annually, coordinating water quality monitoring, rescue stations, and seasonal changing installations along the fast flowing Aare loops.

How a term works

Take office and every day brings a live situation from the city's services: a decision to make and a result that is measured. A term is scored on approval, infrastructure, environment and innovation, inside a real budget, and every mayor's work adds to Bern's own record on the Board of Mayors. You are not alone in office: message and chat with other mayors, form a council with friends, trade with nearby cities and send aid. Cities rise together: there is no losing city.

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• Thun
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• La Chaux-de-Fonds
• Yverdon-les-Bains
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