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Adair neighbor may get countywide planning commission MERGER NOTES The idea of merged city-county services is gaining momentum, but in Adair County, it is mostly limited to the utilities field, tourism, the airport and economic development By Ed Waggener According to a recent story in the Glasgow Daily Times online, City of Edmonton and Metcalfe County officials are currently negotiating to form a joint city-county planning commission. The idea of city-county planning has had scant mention in Columbia and Adair County. Metcalfe County, which borders Adair on the west, already has a single utilities service which serves the entire county. Natural gas service, limited to the city of Columbia, in Adair County, is available almost everywhere in Metcalfe County. The story on the Edmonton-Metcalfe County joint venture, "Metcalfe officials continue planning talks" by Gina Kinslow, was posted September 27, 2007 05:46pmCT, and may still be on sale in print on newsstands in Edmonton. Most Columbia and Adair County business leaders surveyed by CM favor, off the record, joint county-wide government, but mention of the idea rarely comes up in the governmental units which would be affected, except for utilities, where, already, Adair and Columbia joined forces for the Adair County Water Treatment Plant. One active political leader, who would speak only off the record, said he favored city-county merger, but doubted it could pass. "It would get trounced in the county," he said. He said that business matters would prevent him from leading the effort. Only one business leader, Randall Pyles, has approached us at ColumbiaMagazine.com to suggest the idea be pushed. If Adair County were to have joint government, it could be the fourth Kentucky county so advanced. By default, McCreary County, with no incorporated cities, was the first. Lexington-Fayette was the first merger for metro government, which temporarily made that entity the most populous city in Kentucky. Louisville and Jefferson County merged, and besides giving more efficient delivery of services and reclaiming its rank as the number one largest city in Kentucky, it also made the Metro Louisville the sixteenth largest city, in terms of population, in the United States. When Columbia and Adair County merge will mean a lot in terms of city pride and favorable publicity received. If the new government were the fourth merged city-county, the attention would be awesome. If it is 21st, the action might not get more than a paragraph in the Louisville or Lexington papers. This story was posted on 2007-09-29 03:08:36
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