Yep, and one of the biggest expenses are employees. Not just paying wages, but pensions and all the ever changing medical insurance, workers comp, fighting off suits of discrimination and 'unfairness', etc.
Going private would shield the city to a great extent from these types of expenses....and thus passing the savings to the taxpayers.
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Why would anyone not be willing to try something that has and is working elsewhere?
Good question, and honestly, I don't get the objections, either.
Maybe they work for a city.
“Maybe they work for a city.”
Great answer
I live just up the road from Sandy Springs. It is a great little city (I tend to call it a town but that’s me). They have done amazing things there and continue to prosper. The city leadership is so competent and knowledgable it puts other politicians to shame. The mayor is a free market, professor emeritus of economics. The manage has done an outstanding job of paying attention to the details of contracts. People should pay more attention.