Government Collaborations Growing

New government collaborations seem to be sprouting anew every day, which is good news for the EfficientGovNow competition that awards the region's most promising collaborations.

I spoke today with more than a dozen elected officials in Stark County about the competition and learned of several new collaborations, including a large effort to provide shared data recovery services to local governments throughout much of Northeast Ohio. And Stark County's long-discussed 911 consolidation project took another step forward, as this story from the Canton Repository highlights. And 911 consolidation is on the table down in Wayne County too, according to this story in the Wooster Daily Record.

Please visit the EfficientGovNow web site regularly to track the submissions to the latest round of the competition and get ready to vote for the best projects in May. Most importantly, encourage your local government officials to continue to find news way to collaborate and share so that the growth of local government spending slows and the quality of government services rise.