The Department for the Affairs of the City Authorities performs tasks relating to:
- the preparation and processing of acts within the competence of the City Assembly, the City Council, the Mayor and the City Administration;
- professional and organisational tasks for the City Assembly and the City Council and their working bodies;
- preparing sessions and processing acts adopted at sessions of the City Council and the City Assembly, and keeping the minutes of sessions of the City Council and the City Assembly;
- keeping the original documents on the work of the City Assembly, the Mayor and the City Council, and keeping records of the sessions held;
- professional and administrative tasks for councillors;
- other tasks assigned by the Mayor, the City Assembly, the City Council and the Head of the City Administration;
- cooperation with other cities and municipalities in Serbia and abroad, state bodies, services, institutions, associations and organisations;
- administrative and technical tasks, receiving and forwarding telephone calls and messages for officials, the Head of the City Administration and other persons;
- handling requests for free access to information of public importance: receiving requests and providing requesters with the assistance they need to exercise their rights under the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance;
- human resources management for all basic organisational units;
- keeping employees’ personnel files, keeping personnel and other records in the field of employment relations, and other tasks relevant to the career development of civil servants;
- tasks relating to the employment relations of employees of the City of Smederevo, that is, of the City Administration of the City of Smederevo;
- legal, administrative and operational tasks for the City Public Attorney’s Office;
- organising meetings and sessions, and performing organisational and technical tasks to provide the conditions for holding meetings;
- other tasks in accordance with the law, the City Statute and other acts of the City.