Editing Leon County, Florida (section)

===Consolidation===
Leon County voters have gone to the [[Polling station|polls]] four times to vote on [[Consolidated city-county|consolidation]] of the [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]] and Leon County governments into one jurisdiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leonvotes.org/Portals/Leon/Documents/Elections%20and%20Results/PDFs_XLSs/Consolidation_City_County_Government.pdf|title=Consolidation of City (Tallahassee) & County (Leon) Government|publisher=Leon County Supervisor of Elections|access-date=November 2, 2017}}</ref> This proposal would combine police and other city services with the already shared (consolidated) [[Tallahassee Fire Department]], Tallahassee/Leon County Planning Department, and [[Leon County Emergency Medical Services]]. Tallahassee's city limits would (at current size) increase from {{convert|98.2|sqmi|km2}} to {{convert|702|sqmi|km2}}. Roughly 36 percent of Leon County's 250,000 residents live outside the Tallahassee city limits.
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! colspan="8" style="text-align: center; background:blue" | <span style="color:white;">'''Leon County Voting On Consolidation''' </span>
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| '''Year''' || '''For''' || '''Against'''
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| 1971 || 10,381  (41.32%) || 14,740  (58.68%)
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| 1973 || 11,056  (46.23%) || 12,859  (53.77%)
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| 1976 || 20,336  (45.01%) || 24,855  (54.99%)
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| 1992 || 37,062  (39.8%) || 56,070  (60.2%)
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Proponents of consolidation have claimed that the new jurisdiction would attract business by its very size. Merging of governments would cut government waste, duplication of services, etc. Professor [[Richard Feiock]] of Florida State University found in a 2007 study that he could not conclude that consolidation would benefit the local economy.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.fsu.edu/~localgov/publication_files/Feiock&Park&Kang_Consolidation_K3.pdf|title=City County Consolidation Efforts: Selective Incentives and Institutional Choice|website=www.fsu.edu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614150850/http://www.fsu.edu/~localgov/publication_files/Feiock%26Park%26Kang_Consolidation_K3.pdf |archive-date=June 14, 2007}}</ref>