It is numbers game and always has been.  The city of Columbus is growing but it played with the numbers to do so.  Funding should be based on density, but should be does not change what is.

We are not a nation so immigration is a poor choice of words, getting people to move into the city is more real. 

Cleveland: 478,403

East Cleveland: 26,255

Does anyone a have calculator?  I do it!  504,658

What are the actual funds lost in real dollars, somebody said, “give me one good reason why East Cleveland should merge with Cleveland” There you go sir! 

If we were to say as a city that a loss in federal funds to a neighboring city is not our problem, then we could conclude that as just another person that really does not understand economics. 

If there is an actual dollar loss amount, gaining it back, it could be relegated to develop East Cleveland, it could have access to those funds and be it own ward.  I believe East Cleveland does not offer a reduction for working outside the city on its income tax.   I believe workers in Cleveland that live in East Cleveland would pay 3% income tax opposed to 2% if they lived and worked in Cleveland.   

I am not “out of my cotton picking mind” are you?  I think that two reasons. 

Would Uncle Sam consider annexing a city and allowing it to remain semi autonomous cheating?  NO!  They would say population over 500K gives them money.

I think we must have had too much exposure to lead; our brains are not working so well.

Maybe we should ask PLJ to analysis the tax, is it a death tax Peter?  Does it account for more than .25% of real income?   

I apologize but sometimes I feel compelled to say things I do not like to say.

Sam Miller said he would attempt to instigate a regional government.  I suggest a meeting with Jackson, Brewer and Lawson-Jones.   I also would bring a calculator.

Alternatively, we could hang signs on public housing projects. 

 
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If you want immigration then set up a web page and advertise the low cost of living in the city and jobs available, but you also need to have access to immigration processing and visas.  That would require immigration attorneys to act as liaisons, they do that already it is not cheap.  You would need to do that in house so to speak, to gain 25,000 people that way would require a significant effort.  
 
 
 
 

I'd say the one big thing East Cleveland has going for it is that it is independent. It can be agile and creative in its revival. It has good bones.

Merging with Cleveland and its tangled web of politics would cripple East Cleveland and put it very low in the pecking order of who gets what. Cleveland would be the only beneficiary of a merger, and that merger would only give Cleveland another ward to deny services to. Having lived in this town since 1983, I am convinced that the denial of services, such as safety, is intentional and calculated. Calculated to what end? "Planned abandonment" and its concomitant benefits to the banks and the developers.

I understand, it is not a wandering logic, more about multiple thoughts addressed simultaneously. I have an analytical mind, but I also have poor writing skills well, not poor actually only good.  I do not write as I speak. I am not a writer.  I am a thinker.

I have a very broad knowledge base; I have a great understanding of processes and the systems that they are inherent within, it is natural for me to look beyond to analysis. 

I know that if a city defines a system that is unique and well thought out, if it part of a regional initiative then it gets attention.  A regional system of government would move the city to the seventh largest in the nation.  If the system was well defined and well thought out it capitalizes on the attention.  It can become a role model an example of what and how to do it.  That being creating a more efficient system. 

Cuyahoga has 50 unique zip codes, and 500,000 parcels of land. 

Central government (the county)

Regional sections (five regions)

District (50 zip codes)

Parcels (500,000)   

One standard system and dispersion of administration of those functional processes, in tiers through regions into district, all defined as a transaction.  Some being per capita spending or direct investment.    However, the system would have accountancy detailed at a district level.     The sum of all taxes dispersed across districts, detailed processes that are happening in different areas but all under the same system.  Database application software a distributed process.  Business use this all the time headquarters and regional or branch offices.  

Currently there are 71 separate municipal governments with Cuyahoga County; this replaced with 56 regional government administrations.   One central, five regional and 50 districts administrations all operating under one budget and one system.   

One tax rate one taxation system, funding five regions, funding ten districts, the consolidations of city halls into regional administration centers, then have district offices in each zip code.  Taxes and spending would slice up into parcels or per capita by zip code (districts), they would considered either donors or recipients,  higher income communities compared to lower income.  A data driven system with simple already established unchanging boundaries, non-partisan, regions would be continuous zip codes in groupings of ten.  The results would be five medium size governments, one region of around 400,000 surounded by four regions of around 225,000 each.  They would have a council of ten that was part of a council of fifty that being each district would have its own council representative and vote on all regional issues.  All allocated budgets based on equal dispersion of resources.  However, the key to success would be that the larger regional government agenda would be to get control of state and federal funds entering the regions.  

Consolidation is not that difficult often in the onset nothing changes except the source of the payroll check.  That requires a centralized process first regionally then across the region as a whole. 

Actually, all it takes is a county vote, and then its implemented.  Those that would fight it would be existing politician more concerned about themselves than the greater good. 

In Cleveland, it is not a racial issue, because many zip codes would have majorities and those would hold council seats and have influence over their distinct regions. A majority is the highest population, groups that feel they have specific needs can address those needs and the greater council can address them.    Government employees could be required to live in the district or region or just the county based on the tier the actually location of the position they represent.   

All regional government agencies would be inclusive, no separate agencies all funds or spending would go through a central administration and insure all transactions are recorded, even state and federal. 

We today have a very awkward fragmented system, a more standard system that has functional levels that align with sources of revenue of other larger government agencies.  Regional HUD federal HUD, regional department of transportation and ODOT, regional EPA and federal EPA.   

No need to fear change if change is defined, this would bring about lots of attention. 

Is the county about to build a new administration building?  Alternatively, are they about to build a central regional government office?   

Logic says that if this is not appealing to you then that is do to your own limitations and self-serving interests.

We can define it and we can put it on the ballot, we can define it to the point that most would embrace it. 

County Map

I prefer zip codes from a process advantage, in databases the term is to query, total tax revenue by a variable, a zip code is always there.  In addition, such services, as trash removal and street clean are not that different from mail delivery.  The postal regions have logical divisions, based on continuous roads.  The also usually have relatively consistent demographics, but each would be unique and most are already identifiable neighborhoods or cities.  

I know that investors look at demographic as a city ranks low as a region Cuyahoga is only marginally different than other cities, it is considered the second largest city in Ohio yet it is the largest as a region 7th largest in the nation.  I never think that bigger is better, but many decision these days are done at a glance.  We can improve the number and attempt to improve the quality of life, why would anyone have trouble with that. 

It is the twenty first century and we still think in race and gender?  We need a fair and accountable system, one that shows that efforts made produced results. 

Look close, Cleveland and the county has a disputed health care system it actually has primarily three.  If a group of very bright people were able to see clearly were all the funds come from the path they take, they could devise a system of insurance and rating system, it could apply Medicaid and Medicare funds to supplement the low wages. One of the systems already does it, the counties.  We can have a 100% accessible system we are ahead of the game; we have a distributed system of clinical services.  If we can get regional employers out of paying health care then employees select there own, then pricing get subsidized through state and federal funds.  If we require regional insurers then the money stays local.  Combining into a regional government includes a regional county hospital. 

The sum of all the operating cost of all health care facility is the real cost of health care.  

The sum of all insurance premiums must cover that amount; it should carry balances in surplus.

In closed system as cold be for the region, it could collect premiums locally and subsidize those with Medicaid and Medicare.  Any outside patients reduce the cost to the local insurance providers; revenue from outside of the region helps covers operating costs.  Many health care costs are fixed and do not go up as patients are treated.   If one out of ten patients are from outside the region then one tenth of the revenue is not coming out of a local insurer, if the system of insurance is local and the system of clinical care in national or even international, then the visiting patients reduce local health care insurance premiums. The key is to have local insurance providers, 100% participation, and regulated prices subsidized through federal and state funds.   

It is because a hospital does not loose money when it treats a person it looses money when a doctor or nurse is not treating patient.  That is why you always have to wait.  Local insurance providers, committed to the region regulated and subsidized.             

Education, and safety are all distributed services, based on the size and population each would get funds equally, since Cleveland is I believe nine zip codes then one other zip code would be included in it as a central region it would be flanked by four other regions with ten zip codes.  That would not make it part of Cleveland it would be a district in its own but regionally administered with nine adjacent continuous districts.  Some shifting would take place since cites are and do span multiple zip codes.  The best thing is that it would define itself; there would be little deliberations about boundaries they would be continuous zip codes as they exist.  Again, five regions with 10 district each. 

Once the regions are geographically defined, a regional administration sites established and all administration transferred. Northwest, Southwest, Central, Northeast, Southeast, the central region would have a regional office and the central administration office. 

It is all about a standard system that disperses resources it eliminates redundancy.  The ultimate objective is more accountability of the better allocation of funds and the results. 

Has anyone else taken the concept of regional government beyond yes or no besides me?   Me and the PD? 

 
Lets get in on the ballot!  It is a democracy correct!          

BTW - harassment of residents on near west side for "code violations" is gearing up - here's who is harassing local residents near WC Reed Field "HOGAR"  Brian Cummin's fake pet CDC:

Stockyard,Clark-Fulton & Brooklyn Centre at 3167 Fulton Rd Kris Harsh, Housing department 216-961-9073 x208