As part of a Leon County Commission status update on consolidation, the county staff provided information on the public attitudes and prior efforts in Leon County. Provided below is an edited portion of the presentation.
According to Linda S. Johnson’s Tallahassee–Leon County chapter of Case Studies of City-County Consolidation: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape (the “case study”), Tallahassee and Leon County have returned to the idea of city–county consolidation many times over the past fifty years. The community has examined some form of a unified government at least seven times, with four proposals reaching the ballot (1971, 1973, 1976, and 1992) and three other efforts ending before a referendum, including a 1953 Consolidation Study Committee that recommended against pursuing consolidation at that time and two later efforts in 1981 and 1986 that were halted before reaching the ballot.
Concept vs. Plan…