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Consortium leans toward advisory-council or public–private partnership for governance
Summary
Consultants presented four governance models ranging from fully government-run to independent community control and said the consortium favored either an advisory council or a third-party partnership to balance transparency, accountability and community engagement.
Burke Fishburne of the Stedman Group told commissioners the consortium evaluated four governance approaches — a tightly-held government process, a government process with an external advisory council, a public–private partnership that contracts with a third party to run operations, and a largely independent community-driven model.
"Models 2, advisory council or a kind of 3rd party run partnership model, is kind of where we thought we would have most efficiency, most transparency, most accountability, and most community engagement," Burke Fishburne said. He said the consortium favored a structure that defaults to elected-official decision-making but relies on advisory input and third-party facilitation for procurement and evaluation.
The sheriff supported a model that combined city and county oversight with robust advisory input, warning that loosely governed funds can be misused by newly formed entities without track records. Commissioners raised questions about how procurement and competitive bidding would work under each model; county staff said public acquisition processes will likely apply and that staff will present options before any disbursements.
