Reared on the Score wrote:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/opinion/ct-sta-kadner-merger-st-0225-20150224-column.html
No, Government can't be totally run like a business, but like mergers in the private sector there are huge opportunities for consolidation in Illinois, a state that is riddled with govermental bodies from townships, villages, school boards, etc.
Ford Heights is 2 square miles big and a few thousand people. The existing government failed to the point where their police department disbanded.
Of course most municipal legislators wouldn't like these ideas, because that's their livelihood. So it has to be at a state level. You'd think the corporate whisperer Rauner could spearhead such stuff, instead he's spending time lopping off a million bucks from the sick and old.
reviving an article that is 4 months old?
agree that a lot of waste could be cut a t the local level by simply having one elected board control the library, school, village, parks. efficiency would theoretically be gained on a staffing level for local government by combining. combining villages would have to be throughly looked at and not just assumed because two towns are next to each other it would work
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