This is one of several reports put out by the Center for Governmental Research (CGR), focusing on the potential benefits to combining local services...

Shared Services

The state of New York created a commission looking into efficiency and competitiveness of local government, and one of their reports was on the nature of shared(...)

This 21 page case study from 2007 is from the New York Department of State, and it looks into a wide variety of very successful shared services partnerships between the Town of Lancaster and the Village of Lancaster, NY. 

This 2007 report by North Carolina's Department of Public Instruction explores effective shared services strategies among each of its 115 local education agencies (LEAs).

a general shared services policy throughout the Garden State. In pushing for state-wide reforms, the report lays out 18 detailed...