The Frederick County Board of Commissioners decided Tuesday to back away from a proposal to privatize many government services, but did not rule out making such a move in the future.
The board voted unanimously Tuesday to discontinue study of a report prepared by a consultant who developed and implemented a similar plan near Atlanta.
Calling the report a "lightning rod" of controversies and misconceptions, board president Blaine Young said, "We felt the best way to move forward at this point was to remove the report. The perception was that it was all or nothing."
Added County Commissioner Billy Shreve, "We decided, 'Hey, let's quit talking about the report. Let's move on.' We were missing the whole value of the discussion because we're talking about the report."
The proposal that was under consideration by the all-Republican, five-member commission would have outsourced many public services to private business, road maintenance, and parks and recreation programs, budgeting in the finance department and Central Booking at the jail. The county of 233,000 county would have become the nation's largest jurisdiction to privatize services that have traditionally been provided by public workers.
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