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the policy issues we are going, to have to determine and

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that is whether or not you are going to give the authority

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for the creation of new units to the legislature or

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whether you are going to provide for it by agreement

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among localities and Judge Adkins, you will remember at

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the last meeting, appeared to be very strongly of the

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thinking that it should be agreed among the localities

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to create new units, rather than necessarily stemming from

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the Legislature and I think it is evident that we've got

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to have a study here of how other states have solved this

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problem of creating new units and that will be helpful in

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determining how we are going to make provision for it.

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The tenth item is a study of how other states

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have resolved the question of city-county conflicts.

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There again, I think we are interested in

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knowing what others have had by way of experience in

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connection with this problem. We are running into the

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problem. We are going to run into it more and more as

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we try to make provision for it in the constitution, and

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we want to know what others have done. Mr. Thompson?

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MR. THOMPSON: Mr. Chairman, I might add,