More North Carolina cities and counties should tackle their budget problems with innovative thinking. This video from Reason TV shows how one city provides better services at nearly half the cost:
While cities across the country are cutting services, raising taxes and contemplating bankruptcy, something extraordinary is happening in a suburban community just north of Atlanta, Georgia.
Since incorporating in 2005, Sandy Springs has improved its services, invested tens of millions of dollars in infrastructure and kept taxes flat. And get this: Sandy Springs has no long-term liabilities. This is the story of Sandy Springs, Georgia–the city that outsourced everything.
For more ways to improve services at lower costs, see the John Locke Foundation’s City & County Issue Guide 2009, especially the chapter on "Competitive Sourcing." A newly updated edition of this report will be available in early June.
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