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by MarchHare
3545 days ago
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>Sure but rather than directly hiring N people to run the water works and plumbing crews, the city could contract out the maintenance of those things to a private company. It would still own the pipes and be on the hook for the maintenance, but it wouldn't be directly employing the workers. If company X doesn't work out (say due to crappy service), then they could award the maintenance contract to company Y. In this model, the private company doesn't get a local monopoly on the resource, only a contract to provide the service for some limited duration (say N years). This American Life had an example of this with Colorado Springs city services, act 3 of http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/459/w... |
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