Hordaland County Municipality ( no, Hordaland fylkeskommune) was the regional governing administration of the old

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Municipal ...

county in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The county municipality was established in its most recent form on 1 January 1976 when the law was changed to allow elected county councils in Norway. The county municipality was dissolved on 1 January 2020, when Hordaland was merged with the neighboring

Sogn og Fjordane Sogn og Fjordane (; English: "Sogn and Fjordane") was, up to 1 January 2020, a county in western Norway, when it was merged to become part of Vestland county. Bordering previous counties Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland, the cou ...

county, creating the new

Vestland Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...

county which is led by the

Vestland County Municipality Vestland County Municipality ( no, Vestland fylkeskommune) is the democratically elected regional governing administration of Vestland county in Norway. The main responsibilities of the county municipality includes the overseeing the county's u ...

. The main responsibilities of the county municipality included the running of 46 upper secondary schools, with 17,000

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s. It managed all the county roadways,

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, dental care,

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, and

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sites in the county.

County government

The Hordaland

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( no, Fylkestinget) was made up of 57 representatives that were elected every four years. The council essentially acted as a

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or legislative body for the county and it met several times each year. The council was divided into standing committees and an executive board () which met considerably more often. Both the council and executive board were led by the County Mayor () who held the executive powers of the county. The final County Mayor was Anne Gine Hestetun of the Labour Party, while her deputy was Rune Haugsdal.

County council

The

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breakdown of the council was as follows:

Transport

Public transport in Hordaland was the responsibility of the county municipality, including the city buses in the city of

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

. Control of the city buses was transferred from the city to the county on 1 January 2008. In 2007, the county municipality created the

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called "

Skyss Skyss is the public authority that plans, purchases and markets the public transport services governed by the county authority in Vestland, Norway. Skyss does not have a board, but is governed by the county council. Skyss was established in 2007 ...

" that would market public transport while it would be operated by private companies based on public service obligation contracts. Prior to this, most routes had been operated by the private company

Tide Buss Tide ASA is a public transport company in Vestland, Norway which resulted from the merger of Gaia Trafikk and Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap (HSD). The company provides the public transit network in the city of Bergen, and most of th ...

and its predecessors.

References

External links

Official site
{{use dmy dates, date=December 2020 Hordaland County municipalities of Norway Organisations based in Bergen 1838 establishments in Norway 2020 disestablishments in Norway