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General Rule:  People don’t like change.   The report, Politics of Change in Local Government Reform mentioned in Slide 12, the author wrote that there must be a “Climate for Change” in order to restructure local government.  Factors for “climate creation” include: 

  • Collapse of government’s ability to provide services;

  • Crisis of major magnitude;

  • Catastrophe that has a physical effect on the community;

  • Corruption of local officials; and the

  • high Cost of government and the desire for a higher level of services.