[Winona Online Democracy]
Someone once said that even the most effective budgeting is merely the random distribution of dissatisfaction. The Winona area, like other regions, will never find complete happiness with budgetary choices.. Nevertheless, it would be useful for future planning if the city government, the county government, and the school district had some formal means of getting together to discuss and analyze their future plans, giving particular attention to planned moves whose consequences-required taxation is one such issue, although not the only one-overlap. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that we have an ecology of games, with each participatory government playing its own game, at least until the game interferes with another's game and ultimately with citizens' services.
Minnesota political culture would probably not allow any consolidation of governments, at least not in the foreseeable future, but a procedure for frequent and serious consultation among governmental bodies would be very useful. Obviously, problems would still exist; a variety of needs and perceptions of the public interest motivate people and governments. But the likelihood of governments acting at cross-purposes could be lessened.
Roy Nasstrom
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