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Budget committee discusses centralizing services and potential change in government form
Summary
Members debated centralizing county services (HR, technology) under accountable central management to reduce duplication, and discussed whether changing the county's government form (executive branch vs. elected auditor) could preserve institutional knowledge. Commissioners requested a SWOT analysis and external facilitation before pursuing structural change.
Unidentified Speaker 3 and others pushed a recurring theme: centralize countywide services such as HR and technology to create clearer accountability and reduce duplicative platforms. Speaker 2 noted multiple overlapping technology platforms and argued for economies of scale, saying countywide systems (for example HR) should not be fragmented across…
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