Don’t ask someone who has been laid off, robbed, can’t pay the house note, recently waited in line to get their car inspected, or didn’t get their trash picked up last month to worry much about the face of government two or three years from now.
This is the problem with reinventing city and county government. Most of us have more immediate concerns.
The county charter commission is in the early stages of its labors. Reinventing government could be a good idea. Or it could be a way of diverting time and leadership from more pressing, fixable problems. A way of doing something without doing anything.
