Regionalization

As the 11th largest city or town in Massachusetts, Newton has the advantage of economies of scale in many areas.

Nonetheless, we may still be able to lower costs and potentially increase revenues by working with neighboring communities to provide some services. We should systematically review the services we provide to look for opportunities to regionalize.

Jennifer Fenn Lefferts, a Boston Globe reporter, wrote about regionalization studies for shared emergency-services dispatch centers and prisoner lock-up facilities in October 2010. (See the link on the right.)