Show Page 6— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday September 24 1993 More local governments try consolidation By Governing Magazine cost-efficie- “Consolidation” once a scary word for cities and comities suddenly isn’t so frightening any more Instead it may be tbe only way for many governments to stay afloat Cities and school districts are sharing in the use and maintenance of ball fields Housing authorities are paying city or county police departments to provide security Small cities that adjoin each other are forming simple compacts to share die cost of vehicles city attorneys waste collection and water testing Whether big steps or small die current is driven almost entirely by the fact that local revenues are not keeping pace with service demands “These are not like die programs we saw in the ‘80s” says Michael Pagano author of a recent National League of Cities report that included die subject Those efforts he notes tended to be technologically driven cost-shari- ng cost-shari- ng niceties such as die sharing nt of computer data bases Pagano has found more than ISO cities implementing at least one program this year In most of die cases the amount of money saved is relatively small Few of die programs implemented this year will save their localities more than $500000 a d of die arrangements year about that Pagano turned up won’t mate it to $100000 Winnetka 111 for instance reported saving $50000 by sharing an attorney with a neighboring city Tigard Ore saved $20000 by billing jointly with a water district Burbank Calif lopped $50000 off die bottom line tty finding a partner to keep city traffic lights in good repair Small-scaconsolidations such as these have been relatively easy to achieve: They’re not particularly controversial and for the most part decisions can be made at die staff level cost-shari- one-thir- le Neat and nice but as Gerald Seals die former city manager of Corvallis Ore et points out “That’s not where die are” savings Those Seals suggests are in compacting or consolidating such areas as law enforcement land use planning information services personnel operations social services — tilings that tend to be duplicated at considerable expense within a given metropolitan area by city or county governments school districts universities community colleges and die private sector None of three are mere housekeeping: All of diem fall into die policy arena and elected officials not staff have to take die lead But it is happening Not long ago Thornton Cola approached Adams County its surrounding jurisdiction about sharing die cost of an emergency dispatch center Thornton agreed to disband its crater and joined forces with die county The city will save $80000 a year There are almost always trade-ofbig-tick- fs Report: Mass destruction weapons still pose threat cost-sharin- cost-shari-ng WASHINGTON (AP) — Several members of die Senate denounced die FBI on Thursday after learning that it secretly collected information in die 1950s to paint then-Re-p Quentin Burdick as a Communist sympathizer Senators also assailed Roll Call a Capitol Hill newspaper for publishing a story based on information obtained under die Freedom of Information Act about die FBI’s activities concerning Burdick Burdick died last year after serving 32 years in die Senate “I would have thought that McCarthyism was dead” said Sen Hank Brown “This kind of activity is deplorable” “I just think this is a shoddy bit of journalism” said Sen Paul Simon L Sen Byron Dorgan said he called FBI Director Louis Freeh demanding an apology to die Burdick family He said that Freeh told him he would look into die matter Deutsche Presse Agentur com-meric- custom-tailore- g? Senators blast ’50s FBI probe an atomic weapon to the United A substantial military stockpile States “There are other ways” he of hundreds of tons of chemical WASHINGTON — The end of said would also be relatively the Odd War hasn’t reduced the The OTA report suggested that measured in die tens of danger to die United States from small weapons could be smuggled millions of dollars outlaw weapons of mass destruc- into a country via boat or The OTA report said that chemtion a report to Congress says aircraft ical and biological weapons are The congressional Office of In its report mi weapons of mass essentially World War I and II Technology Assessment said in a destruction “Assessing the technology available even to relanew report that few countries are Risks” die OTA gives some tively backward military regimes now working on nuclear chemical starding figures on the economics Since die technology cannot be and biological weapons but those of weapons proliferation effectively controlled Glenn said that are happen to be in unstable The report says that die cheapest “The best defense is prevention” The OTA report says that inregions of the world — the Middle production costs for open producEast the Korean peninsula and tion of one nuclear weapon per ternational cooperation including South Asia year with no international con- the Nuclear The proliferation of such trols would be about $200 million Treaty (NPT) increases the politiweapons ‘poses particular a year But a concealed clan- cal pressure against a country dangers for foe United States” destine operation such as that run building a nuclear weapon and according to the report because by Iraq would cost 10 to 50 times raises the costs of procuring die die United States as the lone as much — $2 billion to $5 billion necessary nuclear fuel and technology remaining superpower might be for one weapon per year The breakup of die former obliged to act in order to protect its By contrast chemical and bioallies or its vital national interests logical weapons which given the Soviet Union has increased the overseas right conditions could cause as potential danger of the spread of said much damage as a nuclear nuclear technology but Gerald Sen John Glenn that one of die conclusions from weapon are bargains According Epstein chief author of die OTA recent congressional testimony to OTA a large biological weapon report said there’s no evidence of was that nuclear weapons have arsenal could be put together for any significant leakage of nuclear become smaller and no longer less than $10 million in a space material from the former Soviet states require a ballistic missile to deliver about the size of a large garage By Charlotte and Mecklenburg County NC are up ta Two years ago their officials got together and decided to consolidate police under die city and parks and recreation under die county A year or so before that die city took over animal control and die county got building standards “It’s like a trade” says David Cooke a consulting manager for Charlotte “They swapped services That way neither’ ’ side looked like it was winning or losing How much can a county or city save in There’s no easy a major answer Matty governments may only be guessing when they claim that a given consolidation is saving diem $500000 or $50000 or $5000 On the other hand most of diem can point to a program or a service that they are still providing on a shared basis that might be gone now if they had tried to keep providing it on their own For most of diem that is benefit enough Thornton had to give up die familiarity and comfort of having its own d emergency communications center The city’s fire and police departments had to change procedures to adapt to a county-wid- e system Then there was the issue of control As Joyce Hunt die assistant city manager puts it “When you have a consolidated dispatch center there is usually a fight over who operates it — die city or die county” Thornton and Adams County avoided that tight by setting up a board to run the center police and fire officials from die city and county as well as from other localities served by die crater sit on die board For Seals who has been involved in quite a few of these consolidation efforts die question is not simply one of but of whether a jurisdiction is willing to concentrate an “die services it provides best” and farm out die others That in effect is what die city of al lo D-I1- D-N- on D FBI spokesman Charles Mandigo said die FBI had to release die information on Burdick “Under the law we have no choice but to process the file and release it” he said “It’s unfortunate that it gets published but that’s die Freedom of Information Act” Mandigo also said it was common for die FBI to try to uncover Communists and Communist sympathizers in the 1950s “A lot of people were looking for Communists everyplace” he said “Even die House itself Activities through die House Committee was very active in looking for Communists at that 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