as mayor of sandy springs georgia she's been a resident for five decades she led the charge to incorporate the city i asked her about the motivation behind pioneering and adopting this model for a city where most of the government functions are privatized. i have been reading about experiments in this direction across the united states some of them were just for individual departments but there was a lot of shows thing in california that i was aware of and then we became aware of a new civilian florida where storm that was there all of its functions and so we contacted newman from there up that it was working well and decided it would be the most efficient model for us to go where and now you also interestingly have a background you are retired economist you had a specialization in urban finance and also in labor economics which i think is an interesting background they are coming from to my question in between sandy springs and also your professional background as an economist what have you found about how the private sector can be used to make government more efficient. in the primary fu

pensions made to employees that in the end local governments just can't pay well let's go to sandy springs georgia ok city hall has seven employees on the public payroll at least the rest are private employees who work for private companies through contracts to do all the local government functions the cops and fire department are exceptions it's been a city since two thousand and five i spoke to the mayor ava glom bose mayor of sandy springs georgia she's been a resident for five decades she led the charge to incorporate the city i asked her about the motivation behind pioneering and adopting this model for a city where most of the government functions are privatized. i have been reading about experiments in this direction across the united states some of them were just for individual departments but there was a lot of shows thing in california that i was aware of and then we became a way to a new civilian florida where storm that was there all of its functions and so we contacted from there up that it was working well and decided it would be the most efficient model for us to go where and now yo

looking for ways to save money or trim budgets or get out of debt should they look to sandy springs ok this is a georgia suburb that has operated from inception with a model it calls the model take a look. the city has only a handful of employees on its payroll it's outsourced virtually every other aspect of the government to private companies. so essentially it has a few employees on the public payroll but everything else all the other city functions are run by private corporations so if you need a business license you actually go through a company in england and nine eleven dispatch is headquartered in new jersey so this is really interesting do you think that this is something that that could be adopted in an era when we see so many problems with the burden of public pensions that are unsustainable and all these debt things i love these i love these i don't know about them eleven thing i don't know about the nine eleven calls but like for example most of the private the d.m.v. every single person in this country hates the d.m.v. there isn't a single person that says that the d.m.v. can't be can't can

because it seems to be coming up a lot lately let's move on we had the mayor of sandy springs on this week which is a city in georgia that has successfully outsourced most of city government well bev ics on you tube wrote i would be concerned with privatized city government too much risk for cronyism if attempted all bids should be put online and the entire financial should be put out you make absolutely a great point this model opens up the possibility for no big contracts and cronyism to be sure perhaps the kind of corruption you see at the pentagon for example would draw us to this story was this town seems to be saving money and doing it well in their model the way that they're carrying out you heard what the mayor said the interview she said it's very important to write a good contract to encourage competition and to keep contractors on their toes. if the service is not delivered and all the conditions are not met by by companies somebody else will be there to do the work. bye-bye company but no there is certainly no cure for bad management and corruption now we also talked this week about how barclays is settl