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‘Shared services’ offers a step in the right direction

Published: July 25, 2011

Grand Rapids Business Journal’s continuing series on governmental consolidations has now come to include the “shared services” efforts in Muskegon County, as well as the long efforts of Saugatuck and Douglas and Saugatuck Township to form one government. Each instance of planning for such inevitability is unique, in that very local considerations are weighted. The One Kent coalition believes Gov. Rick Snyder awaits one type of plan that can be used for overlay in any region of the state; however, one-size-fits-all planning may face rejection by all.

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