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Local Initiatives by Type

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●  Municipal Restructuring

●  Countywide School Administration Projects

●  Purchasing and Procurement

●  Special District Consolidation

●  Regional Jails

●  Fire District Consolidation

●  Regional Weights and Measures

●  Code Enforcement

●  Regional Fire Training Facilities

●  Consolidated Water/Sewer/Stormwater Infrastructure

●  Regional Boards of Health

●  Justice Courts Services & Facilities Consolidation

●  Regional Social Services

●  Smart Growth Initiatives

●  Town-County Highway Services and Shared Facilities

●  Multi-Municipal Policing

●  Countywide Assessment

●  Countywide Emergency Dispatch

●  Countywide Tax Collection

●  Economic Development Coordination & Consolidation

●  Countywide Public Employee Health Insurance

●  Technology Services Coordination & Consolidation

●  Joint Administration Projects

●  Countywide Pooled Investment

Municipal Restructuring

County Dissolution

  • Tioga County (explore subdivision into three portions merging with adjoining counties)

City-Town Consolidation

  • Chenango County (City and Town of Norwich)
  • Cortland County (City of Cortland and Town of Cortlandville)
  • Genesee County (City and Town of Batavia)
  • Otsego County (City and Town of Oneonta)

Village Dissolution/Consolidation

  • Allegany County (Village of Belmont)
  • Broome County (countywide)
  • Hamilton County (Village of Speculator)
  • Tioga County (countywide)
  • Warren County (Village of Lake George)

School District Consolidation

  • Broome County (general)
  • Tioga County (general)

Coterminous Boundaries

  • Franklin County (Village of Saranac Lake)

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Purchasing and Procurement

  • Albany County
  • Albany County, Orange County & Rockland County (cooperative)
  • Onondaga County
  • Suffolk County
  • Sullivan County

Regional Jails

  • Orleans County
  • Sullivan County
  • Ulster County

Regional Weights and Measures

  • Steuben County, Schuyler County & Yates County

Regional Fire Training Facilities

  • Essex County
  • Warren County & Washington County

Regional Boards of Health

  • Genesee County & Orleans County

Regional Social Services

  • Ulster County

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Town-County Highway Services and Shared Facilities

  • Broome County
  • Chautauqua County
  • Chemung County
  • Chenango County
  • Columbia County
  • Delaware County
  • Herkimer County
  • Lewis County
  • Nassau County
  • Schenectady County
  • Seneca County
  • St. Lawrence County
  • Tioga County
  • Ulster County

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Countywide Assessment

  • Albany County
  • Allegany County
  • Broome County
  • Cayuga County
  • Chautauqua County
  • Clinton County
  • Columbia County
  • Cortland County
  • Delaware County
  • Erie County
  • Essex County
  • Franklin County
  • Fulton County
  • Genesee County
  • Greene County
  • Hamilton County
  • Herkimer County
  • Jefferson County
  • Lewis County
  • Livingston County
  • Madison County
  • Montgomery County
  • Niagara County
  • Ontario County
  • Orange County
  • Orleans County
  • Otsego County
  • Putnam County
  • Rensselaer County
  • St. Lawrence County
  • Schoharie County
  • Schuyler County
  • Seneca County
  • Steuben County
  • Sullivan County
  • Tioga County
  • Ulster County
  • Warren County
  • Washington County
  • Wayne County
  • Wyoming County

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Countywide Tax Collection

  • Albany County
  • Allegany County
  • Broome County
  • Cayuga County
  • Chautauqua County
  • Chemung County
  • Clinton County
  • Columbia County
  • Cortland County
  • Delaware County
  • Erie County
  • Essex County
  • Franklin County
  • Fulton County
  • Hamilton County
  • Lewis County
  • Livingston County
  • Madison County
  • Montgomery County
  • Onondaga County
  • Orange County
  • Putnam County
  • Rensselaer County
  • St. Lawrence County
  • Schuyler County
  • Steuben County
  • Sullivan County
  • Tioga County
  • Ulster County
  • Washington County
  • Wyoming County

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Countywide Public Employee Health Insurance

  • Albany County
  • Broome County
  • Erie County
  • Livingston County
  • Monroe County
  • Montgomery County
  • Suffolk County
  • Tompkins County
  • Washington County

Joint Administration Projects

  • Broome County (parks and recreation)
  • Chemung County (information technology)
  • Chemung County (public works)
  • Essex County (financial officer)
  • Fulton County (demolition team)
  • Genesee County (youth bureau)
  • Nassau County (parks & roads)
  • Oneida County (financial officer)
  • Otsego County (flood control)
  • Allegany, Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben and Yates Counties (211 information system)
  • Tompkins County (criminal justice data)
  • Ulster County (regional social services)

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Countywide School Administration Projects

  • Nassau County (school back office)
  • Putnam County (school back office)

Special District Consolidation

  • Nassau County (sanitation, libraries)

Fire District Consolidation

  • Chemung County
  • Cayuga County
  • Nassau County
  • Schuyler County
  • Tioga County
  • Ulster County

Code Enforcement

  • Franklin County
  • Orleans County
  • Schoharie County
  • Schuyler County
  • Seneca County
  • St. Lawrence County
  • Wayne County

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Consolidated Water/Sewer/Stormwater Systems

  • Cattaraugus County
  • Cayuga County
  • Chautauqua County
  • Erie County (2)
  • Genesee County
  • Lewis County
  • Nassau County (2)
  • Rensselaer County
  • Rockland County
  • Schenectady County
  • Schuyler County
  • Ulster County (resource recovery)
  • Ulster County (stormwater)

Justice Courts Services & Facilities Consolidation

  • Broome County
  • Chemung County
  • Franklin County
  • Genesee County
  • Jefferson County
  • Schuyler County
  • St. Lawrence County
  • Tompkins County
  • Yates County

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Smart Growth Initiatives

  • Dutchess County (conservation easements)
  • Erie County (school/public facility capacity)
  • Orange County (transportation)
  • Schuyler County (ecological master plan)
  • Suffolk County (roadways)
  • Sullivan County (regional power)
  • Tompkins County (Cayuga Inlet dredging)
  • Tompkins County (comprehensive plan)
  • Yates County (waterfront plan)

Multi-Municipal Policing

  • Broome County
  • Chautauqua County (city & county)
  • Jefferson County (villages)
  • Onondaga County
  • Yates County (village & county)

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Countywide Emergency Dispatch

  • Erie County
  • Genesee County
  • Schenectady County

Economic Development Coordination & Consolidation

  • Onondaga County
  • Ulster County

Technology Services Coordination & Consolidation

  • Erie County & Niagara County
  • Ontario County
  • Tioga County
  • Wayne County
  • Westchester County

Countywide Pooled Investment

  • Suffolk County

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