A subtle but important point I wanted to make about the discussions with Hennepin County and the city.
Some have referred to this quickly as a merger of the city and the county. That's a lot more than we have on our plate. We are looking at a variety of services that we provide and seeing how we can provide them better, and more efficiently together. This is going to work very differently, I'm sure, in various areas. In some, notably health, it may make sense to merge departments...we'll have to see what we find out...but in others it may mean coordinating actions, i.e.. public works. In some administrative areas...i.e. printing, translation services, it may make sense to have a single office..... But I don't want people to have the impression that we are planning on having a single government. TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
