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38 | PUBLIC SERVICEStic tank use; and establishing emergencyresponse plans for debris recovery anddisposal.The Governor’s Commission alsoorganized town hall meetings with theresidents in South Mississippi to presentideas and to listen to citizens’ concerns.The Infrastructure Committee continuedto develop these ideas in severalmeetings during November and December.The call for regionalization that characterizedso many of the conversationssuggests that city and county governmentsaddress problems, issues, opportunities,services, and facilities in acollective manner. Successful regionalorganizations throughout the countryhave all been based on a simple model:a long-term process with specific goals,objectives, work programs, committees,and committee assignments designed toachieve optimum cost and service performancewith minimum bureaucracy.A regionalized approach would viewthe six South Mississippi counties asone operational area with many components,alignments, configurations, andcoalitions.The Need for SharingIn effect,the humancommunicationsdisastercompounded theimpact of thenaturaldisaster.Demands facing individual local governmentsgrow at increasing rates. Mostgovernmental services affecting dailylife are performed by local governments.Additionally, public services arehighly regulated. State and federal governmentscontinually adopt unfundedmandates to local governments andcontrol the ability of local governmentsto tax their citizens and borrow money.Local governments should communicatewith each other their issues,concerns and opportunities about theservices provided to their citizens. It isvirtually impossible for each local governmentto construct facilities and provideservices in a cost-effective mannerwithout working in cooperation withother local governments. Functionssuch as transportation, technology, environmentalprotection, public safety,water and sewer collection and treatment,and economic development aretoo complex and expensive for localgovernments to chart their path alone.In any regional system, however, communitiesthat have already invested inupgraded infrastructure should be rewardedand not penalized.IntergovernmentalCooperationVirtually every type and level of generalpurpose government is involved,to some degree, in the provision of thesame types of services and facilities.Even domestic protection, which mostcitizens identify as a federal responsibility,has now been extended to localgovernments after the terrorist attackson September 11.The methods by which an individualgovernment can spend its tax dollarsmore effectively by working withother levels of government are limitless.If a county has a responsibility, issue orproblem, it also affects the cities withinthat county, surrounding counties, aswell as the state and federal governments.For example, it is virtually impossiblefor any local government to meet allof the environmental responsibilities itfaces by acting alone. Additionally, transportationsystems must be constructedthrough the use of joint funding andmust be part of an overall functioningnetwork to reach any level of success. Inthe area of law enforcement and criminaljustice, if agencies and organizationscannot communicate with one another,
THE GOVERNOR’S COMMISSION REPORT | 39criminals and criminal activity becomevery difficult to control.Regional StructureUnder state leadership, the more than20 local governments that comprise thesix lower counties have the opportunityto join together and create a regional organizationto lead the development of along-range, comprehensive plan that includesthe management of water, sewer,and storm water utilities. This regionalorganization must have local governmentroots and be sensitive to privateeconomic interests that will foster economicgrowth and development.Several organizations currently existthat service all or part of the countiesof George, Jackson, Hancock, Harrison,Pearl River, and Stone. 1 These multi-jurisdictionalorganizations could participatein the regional entity that may besolely responsible for the planning andprovision of these regional services.Regional PlansThere are several public services thatare amenable to a regional structure.The most obvious are solid waste disposal,water, sewer, transportation, correctionalfacilities, and tourism development.Voluntary cooperation between localgovernments is difficult to achievewithout leadership and financial incentives.There should be a regionalauthority responsible for preparing aregional plan and addressing all appropriatefacilities and governmental services.Initially this plan should be developedwithout regard to governmentalboundaries. Once the plan is adopted,the regional authority must carry outcertain common functions and participatinggovernments must share in thecost proportionately.One of the most important componentsof the regional plan is identifyingwhich governments and individuals areresponsible for implementation of itsdifferent parts. The best example on theMississippi Gulf Coast is in the area oftransportation.Currently, there is a long-range, regionaltransportation plan requiredby federal law, which determines howstate, federal and local governments willspend transportation funds. While individualgovernments may be buildingdifferent components of this transportationnetwork, it is nevertheless a comprehensive,regional transportation planthat is being implemented intermodal.(See chapter on intermodal iransportation.)State government has become empoweredto direct and greatly influencehow federal spending occurs. The stateshould not only require regional planswhere appropriate but should consolidategrant funds into a Regional ServicesFund. All spending from this fundmust be aimed at implementation of theregional plan. It is unlikely that any localgovernment will ever fully divest itselfof providing any of these services, butthey will look at the best means of sharingresponsibilities, duties and requirements.A regional authority would be alikely candidate to assist in this process.Role of State GovernmentMany times regionalism and intergovernmentalcooperation require externalleadership forces to be successful.This is primarily accomplished throughfunding incentives. The governor, orhis designee, should use all appropriateinfluence to insist that state and federalagencies use their grant resources tosupport regionalism. Most public facilitiesprojects involve multiple fundingOfficials andresidents assumethat there will bea large infusion ofnew capital intothe Gulf Coastand state ofMississippi as partof the recoveryprocess. Thesefunds should beused to supportregional planswheneverpossible.[I]nfrastructurespending shouldbe reestablishedas the highestpriority for stateand localgovernments.
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