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      by Debbie Kelley</title>
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      <![CDATA[Mr. K, thanks for commenting but those are the usual out-of-hand dismissals often spoken by a vested interest that doesn't want their fiefdoms to change. I'm not buying into comments about "it won't work here because we're different."<br>
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The needs of parents and school kids in Yoder are no different from D-11: good schools, competent teachers, a healthy lunch and an education to prepare them for whatever they want in life, be it ranching, farming, mechanical work, trades, technology, medicine, law, parenthood, or whatever.
        
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    <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:09:21 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[I  cannot endorse the one government solution proposed by the Old Crank, even though it appears on the surface to be nothing more than a way to save money by preventing duplication of services. The problem is that the needs of the city are very different from the needs of the rural and suburban areas.
        
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      <![CDATA[Mrs. Clark<br>
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Dr. Suzanne Leland of the Univ. of North Carolina is possibly the country's foremost authority on partial and total consolidation of city and county government. Over the past decade, various city-county pairs have tried this merger.
        
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      <![CDATA[Cranky:  I'm with you all the way on that one, buddy.
        
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      <![CDATA[How about we really "integrate" government functions and MERGE both the entire county and city governments into ONE government, with these attributes:<br>
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- ONE set of elected leaders, for all of us<br>
- ONE set of elections<br>
- ONE overhead structure<br>
- ONE set of government employees<br>
- ONE set of laws<br>
- ONE set of tax rates<br>
- ONE school district<br>
- ONE school board<br>
- ONE Fired Dept<br>
- ONE Police Dept<br>
- ONE Sheriff<br>
- ONE legal system / jail<br>
- ONE set of building codes and enforcement<br>
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Until then, any talk of merging this or that is just playing around the margins.... by those with an agenda of some sort. My agenda is ONE government.
        
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      <![CDATA[City council is seeing first hand how a strong mayor is very capable of gnawing away at the jurisdiction council once had. Sorry, but the county clerk's offer is an obvious power and money grab.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm starting to think we elected the wrong guy mayor. Williams sounds like a better leader as well as a better administrator.
        
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      <![CDATA[I sincerely hope that the Mayor and City Council seriously consider County Clerk and Recorder Wayne Williams' proposal to integrate city clerk functions, especially the elections department. El Paso County has direct access to the Secretary of State and voter records, the necessary verification equipment, etc.  Especially when times are tough, it's important to look for potential consolidation of local services like this.
        
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