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Powerful Advocate for Government Collaboration
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Ohio House Speaker Armond Budish, D-Beachwood, is a powerful new force for greater regional collaboration among local governments. As Plain Dealer reporter Aaron Marshall explained this week in this story Budish called for a compact between the state and major cities with special incentives in exchange for what would be an eventual move toward more regionalism.
Speaker Budish's push for greater regional collaboration builds on efforts already under way in Northeast Ohio, including an effort to implement greater regional planning and revenue sharing (known as the Regional Prosperity Initiative) being led by the Northeast Ohio Mayors and City Managers Association. On Monday of this week a new state panel looking at local government reform met for the first time. The Akron Beacon Journal's editorial on that meeting points out: The crisis is long-term. The commission must foster an honest conversation about the costs and benefits of the state having almost 4,000 taxing authorities. The partners of Advance Northeast Ohio (several of whom sponsored last year's Cost of Government Research that highlighted the cost of local government in the region) support efforts to create more efficient, effective local government and believe that will result in a stronger regional economy. Speaker Budish is a welcome new voice for the cause of regional collaboration. Trackback URL for this post:http://www.advancenortheastohio.org/trackback/536
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