LIVINGSTON COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES ANALYSIS

William H. Shields and Lynn R. Harvey

No 10942, Agricultural Economic Report Series from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Abstract: Rapid population growth challenges the ability of local government to keep pace with increasing and changing demand for public services. These challenges may be physical or organizational in nature. Physical challenges arise from the need to upgrade public infrastructure such as water and sewer service, roads, schools, and emergency services. Although installation of new infrastructure is always expensive, growth-related increases in the tax base provide new revenue for installation of new services. However, when slowing growth rates, againg infrastructure, and addition of expensive new services pressure local government to increase revenue from existing resources decision-makers may then seek to reduce per-capita costs by reorganizing the method or structure of providing community services.

Keywords: Public; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.10942

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