Maybe you are not following me. Right now, the county reimburses Towns for street plowing of county roads. Where ever something like this is efficient, lets do it. Parks, road maintenance, maybe police. I bet we can get that 12% of the Erie county's budget that they control at least cut in half. And we will save because town's provide cheaper road maintenance per mile than the county, I am sure the park maintenance is the same.
Even if we got the 12% Erie county controls down to 1%, it only cuts out about .60 c per $1000 on property tax. Which if the agency that takes over the service does it for 50% less it saves .30 c per $1000 on property tax. The only real savings will be in service elimination. So we can sit here and fight about how regionalism will work or not, as Albany overspends every last dime of the 88% it mandates Erie county.