• [Consolidation] is being done without considering organizational ability. Some are well run (leave alone) and some are poorly run (need changes).

  • We share equipment and fuel depot use with surrounding towns.

  • The county water and sewer authority provides reservoirs and treatment plants; municipalities still service their customers. Local politics make this a challenging proposition.

  • NYC Department of Design and Construction has taken over NYC Department of Sanitation construction capital improvement projects.

  • Opportunities for consolidation are being assessed.

  • Local government consideration of fleet services.

  • New York State encourages local collaboration/consolidation, but archaic laws hinder the process.

  • As a county agency, we've assisted cities, villages, and townships for years in hopes of reducing taxpayer cost on various items; and see this expanding as the law allows in the future.

  • Many local governments are consolidating services and sharing the costs without a state mandate. The drop in tax revenues and lack of state assistance is requiring consolidation to balance budgets.

  • Some consolidations, like police dispatch, make sense. A neighboring city sells anti-icing liquids to us, which works well and saves money. We've used other cities' underground pipe video systems.

  • [Consolidating] would be disastrous because each local government would need equipment and personnel when the other city's using it; there would be real issues responding to needs.

  • It's a great idea. We've participated in informal staff-level discussions with other agencies on ways to share resources or consolidate services.

  • Cities within each county could work together to do projects and thus save public funds.

  • Bureaucracies never use a keen sense of the obvious (my term for “common sense”) in restructuring. Instead, they add another committee with attached "fees" to examine the process.

  • Some jurisdictions are in preliminary talks.

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