Sandy Springs, GA.
The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Heh. Sandy Springs is practically next door to us, just a few miles down the road and over the Fulton County line.
I’m not sure this makes sense as a universal model for local government, but it will be interesting to see whether it succeeds. The benefit of corporate outsourcing typically is that one company no longer needs to have in-house expertise to perform numerous different functions; instead, they can rely on third parties who specialize in those functions and who can deliver them with more efficiency and at lower cost. If the corporate analogy holds when you look at the package of services small cities offer their residents (police protection, fire protection, water, e.g.), then I’m sure we will see other municipalities adopt this approach.