By Matthew Saari and Krystle Morey
Granville Mayor Brian LaRose and Whitehall Mayor Phil Smith have begun talks about possibly sharing some services between the two villages as a cost-saving measure.
LaRose and Smith met earlier this month to begin discussing mutually beneficial opportunities as a part of Governor Cuomo’s state-mandated County-Wide Shared Services Initiative.
The initiative is a state effort to consolidate and streamline services offered by municipalities to decrease the financial burden on taxpayers.
LaRose said he and Smith have “a lot in common.”
“We both share a lot of concerns and we both share a lot of issues that we are both dealing with as far as the cost to supply the services that we supply for both of our municipalities,” said LaRose. “There’s a lot of commonality between the two of us. I think that’s going to be beneficial moving forward.”
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