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This 3 page essay looks at factors, reasons and theories behind the development activites for consolidating city and county governments serving the same population base.
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or metropolitan level. The best way to achieve this coordination is through the creation of a city-county government. Such a consolidation of effort already falls within the scope of the
MPA framework, though it had shown to have negative effects on election of local officials. For this reason, the new regional framework should consider working off of a public administration
model as well. Why Reposition Administration? The ball is already in the MPAs court. Frederickson
(1999) wrote that it is up to public administrators to find a way of solving complex problems that are currently managed across jurisdictions, causing errors in services, such as allowing
dangerous criminals to go free, that do not serve the public. A city-county jurisdiction would reduce problems between jurisdictional borders, making them
trans-jurisdictional in nature. This would end the current complexity seen in the "declining salience of jurisdiction, the fuzziness of borders, and the growing asymmetry between the governed and those who
govern." In a city-county area, the complexity surrounding the same problems are contained by managing all social, economic and political issues within one jurisdiction.
This falls in line with the fact that public management continues to adopt practices more aligned with commercial business practices and ideas over past ineffective public management practices.
Today public services are provided by contractors and other non-governmental actors, removing the need for public vehicle fleets and large maintenance facilities covering a myriad of public transportation options. Cooperation
and coordination of development activities at a regional or metropolitan level, allows one entity serving the same populace to manage this group of complex problems that used to involve many
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