But I'm not interested in more county bureaucracy or larger county departments. I'm interested in how are we the county here as a facilitator and a partner. And so for what we've done is We've brought all of those different stakeholders together, all of the chief electeds from those 20 municipalities, their municipal administrators, the 13 fire chiefs. and we've talked through like where does the county step in to help? And there's a multitude of ways helping facilitate shared services and consolidations and cooperation. (13:41–13:51)
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