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(gaelic for “swamp”)
(“cork city council” (irish: comhairle cathrach chorcaí) is the authority responsible for ‘local government’ in the city of “cork” in “ireland”)
(as a ‘city council’, it is governed by the “local government act of 2001”)
*the council is responsible for “‘housing’ and ‘community'”, “‘roads’ and ‘transportation'”, “‘urban planning’ and ‘development'”, “‘amenity’ and ‘culture'”, and “environment”)
(the council has 31 elected members)
(‘elections’ are held every 5 years and are by ‘single transferable vote’)
(the head of the ‘council’ has the honorific title of “lord mayor of cork”)
(the ‘city administration’ is headed by a ‘chief executive’ (currently ‘ann doherty’))
(the council meets at “cork city hall”)
(the “2015 cork local government review” has recommended merging “cork city council” and “cork county council” into a single “super council”, within which a ‘metropolitan district council’ will govern the ‘metropolitan cork’ area; however, a ‘minority report’ opposes the ‘merger’)
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