Imagine Greater Tucson 2010-11 Phase I Community Conversation and Survey Statements Related to Collaborative intergovernmental relationships

1	A closer working relationship between city and county.
2	A greater amount of intergovernment organization
3	Because we are a government/public sector region - government sets the direction. Tucson/Pima County/southern Arizona is controlled by elected Democrats in a State that has a legislature controlled by elected Republicans. Pima County has had stable administration and Board of Supervisors while City of Tucson has had turnover in the City Manager and Council. U of A as a land grant university has engaged with the local business community very differently than ASU. Hundreds of millions of TIF funding for Rio Nuevo was spent with minimal benefit. Pima County wastewater and Tucson water are fighting amongst themselves and with others. Even PAG and TREO are additional bureacracies. We are not nimble, dynamic, responsive to taking advantage of opportunitie because we have a bureaucratic culture. Initiating and sustaining a series of improvements for lean, accountable, responsive, collaborative government would improve the near and longer term quality of life.
4	Better working relationships between OV, Marana, Tucson and the county
5	Budget cuts need to be more collaborative
6	County agency leaders drove through Flowing Wells to interface 1st hand with community. A bus ride that built relationships with Fire and Flowing Wells community leaders
7	Create collaborative and open minded growth projects.
8	Ethnic prejudice - ethnic studies ban and border relations influence
9	Good regionalism in development and planning for outdoor recreation. The Urban Loop, the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan, City/County collaboration
10	I love the way that ministries collaborate with the city for transformation.
11	I work for a non-profit organization, and collaborate with a broad base of government, business, nonprofit and individual community members. Because people living in Tucson are from all over the country and world, the Tucson community supports a host of innovative non-profit organizations, blending some of the best ideas found elsewhere to create locally based solutions. People are also willing to contribute their own time and expertise (in addition to dollars) to move things forward that they are passionate about seeing occur.
12	Improve relations with Mexico to thwart the negative anti immigration rap. We need them to stabilize their government, and we should help, we need their trade, labor and shopping retail dollars
13	More private and public relationships
14	Rio Nuevo's issues could have been avoided if more government collaboration existed
15	The City suffers badly from poor leadership and decision-making, witness Rio Nuevo foibles over the last several years. And inter-jurisdictional squabbles are often embarrassing. We need leaders who are willing to say that this is simply not acceptable, and who will work for collaborative democracy & personal accountability, and for inter-governmental cooperation, with little concern for self-aggrandizement.
16	The County is suppose to support the entire County, whether municipalized or unincorporated. Represent and facilitate cooperative relationships with the local governments and the unicorporated areas.
17	Though not everyone is yet on the same page, I appreciate that there are community leaders who are visionary and willing to reach out and work with others. The level of collaboration or, at least, the desire to collaborate is greater than in other communities where I have lived.
18	Tucson city government doesn't seem to function very well. It has no coherence or collaborative efforts with other communities and the county that would benefit all residents of the Tucson valley.
19	Tucson council and other officials need to collaborate more and avoid pettiness
20	Tucson has been the target of new laws banning ethnic studies and national attention has been brought to border relations. A lot of negativity surrounds this issue
21	Tucson's fragile relationship with nature is far from sustainable, there is too little recycling and conservation and far too much waste and destruction of our fragile ecosystem - Water conservation for example needs to be better implemented and supported through tax incentives and other measures
22	Until the disastrous public policies were generated in Arizona, the relations with Sonora, Mexico were in the border region - now can we capture this close relationship?
23	We are 45 minutes from the border - we need in Tucson have a special relationship with Mexico and need to embrace it
24	We need to approve annexation of many of our outlying communities to increase the operating tax base of the City of Tucson.Working relationships with the County
25	We need visionary leaders in the public sector to collaborate with the private sector in creating public policy that support sustainable economic development for our community. The Tucson City Council has to have leaders of this caliber who will be leaders. Where there is political will there is a way.
26	We waste precious resources with duplication. The separate municipalities are good becasue they compete but, they should collaborate and cost share wherever they can find savings. Clearing away the regulatory hurdles will support economic development.
27	Working relationships with the county