Committees to tackle government efficiency

LIBERTY — Members of committees looking to change the form of government in Mahoning and Trumbull counties realize they face a huge challenge.

But they say they are up to the task.

Organized through the Regional Chamber, the two committees announced their members and a plan with little specifics today regarding the placement of referendums on the November 2008 ballot in both counties asking voters to overhaul the current form of county government in Mahoning and Trumbull.

“We have a very ambitious goal to put this together,” said Mahoning County Commission John McNally IV, chairman of the Mahoning committee.

The goal, he said, is to create a government that is more efficient and effective than the one that currently exists with three county commissioners and eight other countywide elected jobs.

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