An Interesting Way To Run A City: Privatize Just About Everything

Sandy Springs, GA. is a medium sized city in Georgia, almost 100,000 people live there. It used to be an unincorporated and it eventually became a city.
Instead of hiring or keeping city employees, they privatized just about everything except some city administrators and the police and fire departments.
Here is there story:



I can verify that sometimes outsourcing is best.
At the school I teach at, we had a water/coolant pipe break about 6 or more weeks ago. Because of the pipe breaking about 6 classrooms were flooded and unusable.
The first weekend, CCSD hired a private company to clean up the hazardous materials from the pipe and then turned the clean up and fixing the flooded areas to CCSD employees.
Since the work has been turned over to CCSD employees, the classrooms that were flooded are still not in use. We rarely see any employees working now. Some of the classrooms effected include art and photography classes but now, these teachers have been in portable classrooms and unable to teach the subjects they are supposed to teach.
However, if CCSD outsourced this project sector, like painters, plumbers, cleaners etc, this project, more than likely, would have been finished and probably finished several weeks ago.
But because CCSD has to rely on CCSD employees and union rules, these classrooms, which are essential in teaching the students photography, ceramics, special education vocational training and more, the rehabbing of the rooms are still not ready to go, over 6 weeks after the accident and we don't know when the classrooms will be ready.
So, maybe government agencies may need to outsource some jobs or hire contractors that will actually do the job in a timely manner.

h/t Real Debate Wisconsin: http://realdebatewisconsin.blogspot.com/