During the course of your leadership, there are times when you may need to use annexation to ensure that your municipality is able to provide every member of your community with the same services. When the time comes to engage in the annexation process, it is important to understand the ins and outs of the project. Learn how to manage these nuances with these helpful resources from the annexation topic page:

• Review Gainesville, Florida’s, Transition of Services Agreement for great language for charting out an annexation and the resulting service provision.
• In the discussion that resulted from her annexation question, Shannon Gerard illuminates some interesting ideas about the decision to annex subdivisions that have failing infrastructure.
• Review the nomination for program excellence that was submitted for Gainesville and Alachua County, Florida, for pointers on solving safety-related problems that result from annexations.
• “Proposed Unincorporated King County Budget and Annexation Strategy” serves as a great guide and reasoning for incorporating unincorporated areas through annexation.

I hope that these lessons will be useful in your community’s annexation endeavors.  If you have any lessons that will help out your fellow managers, feel free to share them in the comment section below.

Aloha,

James Davidson

ICMA's Knowledge Network Intern

jdavidson@icma.org