HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: County Affairs

TIME & DATE:  9:00AM, Tuesday, July 11, 2000

PLACE: E2.036

CHAIR: Rep. Tom Ramsay

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To consider the following interim charge:

Examine the extent to which city and county governments have
voluntarily consolidated and streamlined operations through interlocal
agreements.  Determine the impediments to greater use of such
agreements, and assess whether voluntary consolidation of operations
should be a first step before any further consolidation is permitted.






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