The 'coconut' factor
Monday, September 25, 2006 05:47 pm
Commissioners don't favor consolidation
By DAVID CLOUSTON
Salina Journal
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David
Norlin tried an ice-breaker to get the ball -- or in this case coconut
-- rolling on a discussion with Saline County Commissioners Monday
about studying city-county consolidation.
The point of a poem he referenced was that -- like the juicy
sweet center of a coconut -- to get to the benefits, if any, that
consolidation might provide, it would require penetrating the "hairy,
hard shell" of tradition by forming a bilateral task force to study the
issue.
The commissioners might not have told Norlin and other members
of the League of Women Voters to go climb a tree, but their responses
expressed skepticism that such a study is either desired or necessary.
Still, the commission did agree at the end of the hour-long
meeting, to place the league's request to form a task force on their
formal meeting agenda at 11 a.m. Oct. 3.
For more on why county
commissioners don't favor city-county consolidation, read reporter
David Clouston's story in Tuesday's Salina Journal.
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