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	Unigov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unigov is the name adopted by the city of Indianapolis to describe its consolidated city-county government, adopted in 1970 by act of the Indiana state legislature.
		Unigov was proposed in the late 1960s to address these problems.
		The cities of Beech Grove, Lawrence, Southport, and Speedway each maintained autonomy, with their own police forces, school systems, and mayors, although they are also represented on Unigov's Common Council (legislative body), since other services like road and natural resource management were granted to Unigov.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unigov (401 words)

	A new century, a new mayor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Unigov Council took over the turf that is elsewhere divided between city and county councils; Unigov's mayor combined the offices of the county commissioners and the city mayor.
		Unigov's founders did not want the political bother of amending the constitution and rewriting laws to get exemptions for Marion County, so they created a new board of county commissioners for Unigov and gave them the minor duties that the constitution and law assigned to county commissioners in all the rest of Indiana's counties.
		Meanwhile, the fact that Unigov still had county commissioners began percolating into the attention of the Rat's Ass Republicans on the Unigov Council, a geriatrocy that is led on its errands by Beurt SerVaas, recently elected to a fourth posthumous term as the council's president.
	www.nuvo.net /archive/010600/010600_ulm.html (1613 words)

	Unigov Part 1
		The terms uni-government or unigov are also used to describe this approach to governance.
		Prior to the formation of Unigov, as the consolidated government in Indianapolis is called, five different authorities were responsible for transportation, for example, eight were responsible for drainage, and so many were responsible for developing a park that little progress could be made.
		Unigov augmented Indianapolis' ability to attract federal funds by extending the city's boundaries, raising the population and therefore the city's share of federal assistance distributed according to population-based formulas.
	www.toledobiz.com /unigovpart1.htm (1570 words)

	Indiana45s - The World's Largest Respository of information on Indiana recordings
		Despite promises of equity and fairness, Unigov was met with staunch resistance from both Marion County Democrats and Indianapolis’ fl population.
		[Unigov] was the big thing that Lugar did that was bad for fls.”[8] Black political clout and fls’ growing majority within the Democratic party, which until Lugar’s election controlled the city of Indianapolis, was gone by 1970.
		After Unigov, fls were a minority people represented by a minority Democratic party that did not return to power in Indianapolis until the 1980s.
	www.indiana45s.com /chapter2.php (2755 words)

	Indianapolis, pioneer in city-county mergers, faces crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Unigov also expanded the powers of the mayor and created a combined city-county council.
		Critics have contended that Unigov was created largely to help the Republican party gain a stranglehold on the mayor's office by bringing suburban Republican voters into the city.
		But many believe Unigov also fostered economic development and a revitalized Downtown, and was a key ingredient in helping Indianapolis lure the Baltimore Colts NFL team to their city.
	www.postgazette.com /pg/04236/366132.stm (1261 words)

	TAP: Vol 9, Iss. 40. The Myth of the Supermayor. Michael Grunwald. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If that sounds like a discrepancy, well, it is. Indianapolis statistics are distorted by Unigov, a 1969 annexation deal in which Indianapolis quadrupled in size to include all of Marion County, swallowing 12 of its inner-ring suburbs.
		Unigov, brokered by then Mayor Richard Lugar, has been renowned ever since as a groundbreaking example of metropolitan government in action, "a national poster child for progressive reform." In fact, however, it's more of a numbers game.
		But the most important legacy of Unigov is its assurance that when middle-class city dwellers escape to the suburbs, they still count as Indianapolis residents.
	www.prospect.org /print/V9/40/grunwald-m.html (4931 words)

	Thoughts on Consolidation Proposal - by Cathy Burton
		The very term "overhauling Unigov", a phrase frequently being used to describe the Indianapolis Works proposal being advanced by Mayor Peterson, implies that Unigov has been flawed in its function for the past several decades.
		Whether the original concept of Unigov was flawed or whether it was simply improperly or incompletely instituted is certainly a critical part of the basic debate surrounding the current proposal.
		That evaluation must include an understanding of the original goals of Unigov and an analysis of which of those goals were achieved and which remained unfinished.
	www.mcanaindy.org /cg/julaug/8-op-2.htm (1122 words)

	Publius: Fiscal, service, and political impacts of Indianapolis-Marion County's Unigov.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This entity, known as Unigov, provided the suburban areas with access to greater public finances and services mainly from the Consolidated City of Indianapolis.
		However, developments for the suburban areas were made mainly at the expense of city taxpayers, and the creation of Unigov did not fulfill expectations that the city would gain a bigger tax base.
		This article describes how city and county governments were, and were not, consolidated under Unigov in 1969, a...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:18281386&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (196 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America (1999)
		Unigov, as it is called, did not require voter approval by the county's residents; rather, it was created by an act of the state legislature, controlled at the time by the Republican Party.
		Yet efficiency of service delivery, the principal reason for Unigov's creation in 1969, was proclaimed its major feat even as school districts and townships (which have relief and fire protection responsibilities) remained unconsolidated, as were the four cities with populations greater than 5,000 that were statutorily excluded from the consolidation.
		Nearly a quarter-century after Unigov' s creation, Blomquist and Parks (1995) found that, since 1969, the wealthier suburbs have dominated the political landscape of the city-county government and that Unigov "gave suburban leaders access to the central-city base with which to pursue development projects chosen by them, not by city residents" (1995:53).
	www.nap.edu /openbook/0309065534/html/273.html (718 words)

	"UNIFIED" TORONTO, INDIANAPOLIS -- WHAT NOW?
		Indianapolis' "Unigov" reform, championed by then-Mayor Richard Lugar and passed in 1969, combined the physically constrained old city with surrounding Marion County.
		Indianapolis has burst out of its Unigov skin; with rapid suburbanization into ring counties, only 52 percent of the region's 1.5 million people now live within the consolidated borders.
		What's more, because the original Unigov political compromise left separate taxing districts, the Central Township encompassing downtown and the state capitol is hemorrhaging economically from a property tax for welfare ("poor relief," as the Hoosiers call it) ten times as high as the rest of the region.
	www.citistates.com /prevpub/npc112496.htm (757 words)

	Unigov Part 3
		The article stated: “The unigov approach taken with the Health Department merger in Toledo and Lucas County has resulted in significant benefits, according to Grossman and Vasko (Larry J. Vasko, deputy health commissioner).
		A number of communities across the country where unigov approaches have been implemented are examples of Florida’s guidance concerning regional collaboration.
		Through their efforts to put unigov in place and the resultant collaborative process of governance, these communities have gained the ability to “mobilize resources and take action.”
	www.toledobiz.com /unigovpart3.htm (2178 words)

	Toledo Talk Topic "First 'unigov' summit held" id 530
		But I wonder if unigov is already a done-deal, and these discussions are just a formality, like the fictitious task force of a year ago that was suppose to investigate what effects on business a smoking ban would have.
		Unigov was intrumental in redeveloping the downtown, but the cost has been disproportionately borne by the redidents of Center Township [old Indianapolis].
		Unigov supporters could find the good points of unigov, and opponents could find the bad, but we need both sides.
	www.toledotalk.com /cgi-bin/comments.pl/16/530 (2846 words)

	Toledo Talk Topic "Regionalism vs Unigov" id 974
		Unigov is easier to define: It is a combination of City/County Govt..
		Unigov is just another attempt to collectivize the area economic governance under a larger entity capable of pulling off larger stunts and larger corruptions, all the while less beholden to the voters.
		We may be saved by the outlying populations ix-naying Unigov since it can only be a losing proposition for them with Toledo's decay (an economic fl hole) sucking benefits inward.
	www.toledotalk.com /cgi-bin/comments.pl/4/974 (838 words)

	Unigov public process: 5 months; IndyWorks: 8 months and counting
		Indianapolis Works, which the Mayor proposed in August 2004, is still being debated in the state legislature as of today, eight months later.
		The original Unigov, the groundbreaking and revolutionary law that consolidated many units of local government, was the reason then-Mayor Richard Lugar formed a Governmental Reorganization Task Force in November 1968.
		Unigov was signed into law by Gov. Edgar Whitcomb in March 1969, five months later.
	www.indygov.org /eGov/Mayor/PR/2005/4/20050407a.htm (244 words)

	Ford leads on 'Unigov,' but who will follow?
		Using the term "Unigov," known to municipal policy wonks as the merger 34 years ago of Indianapolis and Marion County, Mr.
		She said there will be a presentation on different forms of regional cooperation by the University of Toledo's Urban Affairs Center, and James Lindeen, a political science professor at the University of Toledo, will facilitate the discussion.
		Ford talk about "Unigov" for more than a year, in connection with the county's efforts to get the city to agree to ship water to townships on the western side of the county.
	uac.utoledo.edu /News/blade-2-23-04.htm (1059 words)

	Mayor to mark 35th anniversary of Unigov with League of Women Voters
		That same year, Unigov legislation was introduced and passed by the Indiana General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Edgar Whitcomb.
		This consolidation was called unified government, or "Unigov." At the same time, many of the units of city and county governments, as well as many separate cities and towns, were consolidated into one civil government.
		With respect to Unigov, LWV has been known throughout Indianapolis for its Unigov Handbook, a guide to understanding local government units, which the league has printed and distributed to the public for many years.
	www.indygov.org /eGov/Mayor/PR/2005/1/20050120a.htm (289 words)

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		Unigov, combines both the City of Indianapolis’s Council and the County of Marion’s Council into a single City-County Council, which is divided into three branches, the executive, the legislative and the judicial branch.
		The final branch is the judicial branch; it consists of a Circuit, Superior, and Municipal Courts, which serve both civil and criminal courts.
		Unigov is not widely accepted in every City of Indianapolis-Marion County.
	www.sjsu.edu /depts/PoliSci/faculty/christensen/msword/Indianapolis.doc (905 words)

	Political leadership key in building a vibrant downtown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Unigov merged the city and Marion County's parks, planning and public works services under one government, and it created a 27-member council that acts like a legislature.
		Those cities have benefited either from having a strong mayor system like Indianapolis, or they have had politicians with lengthy tenures who were willing to take risks.
		In Indianapolis, Hudnut said the Unigov merger allowed him to lead the way to get a dome built downtown and to build amateur athletic facilities.
	www.azcentral.com /specials/special37/articles/0227dtn-politics.html (730 words)

	MetroVisions: Blacks want a place at any city-county merger table (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Then, in 1969, Indiana's Republican-controlled Legislature crafted Unigov, an initiative that merged the city of Indianapolis with heavily Republican Marion County, expanded the powers of the mayor and created a combined city-county council.
		But even though Unigov boosted Indianapolis' image and attracted federal funds that helped revitalize its downtown, the merger left all nine townships in Marion County intact and did not consolidate major government services, Blomquist said.
		But Unigov is struggling financially, as expenses increase at a faster rate than property values, and the Democratic mayor, Bart Peterson, is trying to merge some government services, including police and fire departments, that were left separate 34 years ago, all factors that led the Sustainable Pittsburgh report to describe the Unigov model as "ineffective."
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04319/411668.stm (1341 words)

	:: wibc.com ::
		The governor has proposed expanding cities and counties' ability to impose local income taxes, and letting school boards into the act, in exchange for corresponding cuts in property taxes.
		He says that argument is what stopped Unigov at its current level, and says there's no way that plan would pass.
		Peterson is pushing two major legislative initiatives this year: the Unigov expansion, and slot machines to pay for a new Colts stadium.
	www.wibc.com /News/Story.aspx?ID=39300 (274 words)

	Talk:Unigov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		How convenient that the Republican Party is mentioned in the article as having benefited from Unigov, but the Peterson administration's spoils from the Indianapolis Works plan are not mentioned...
		Let's not even start with the issues that Lawrence is having that would make it seem as if Deborah Cantwell would love to allow Indianapolis to cede Lawrence back into the mix...and people thought that Tom Schneider was bad for Lawrence....
		'== +++Republican Benefit From Unigov+++ It is well documented that Unigov's largest impact was the shift from Democratic control of city government to Republican dominance, due to integration of the smaller communities and the county at large, where Republicans had always exercised greater control.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Unigov (340 words)

	Unigov Part 2
		The consolidation in 2000 of the Health Departments of Lucas County and the City of Toledo has been the most significant effort in the area toward a unigov or unified governance approach.
		These efforts were aimed at increasing the effectiveness of public healthcare in Toledo and Lucas County and improving the delivery of services.
		The unigov approach taken with the Health Department merger in Toledo and Lucas County has resulted in significant benefits, according to Grossman and Vasko.
	www.toledobiz.com /unigovpart2.htm (1325 words)

	SENIOR LAWYERS PROJECT COLLECTION, 1968-1991
		The purpose of the project was to record the memories of lawyers connected with recent historical events.
		The two areas first chosen for investigations were rural electrification in Indiana, and Unigov, the united government for Indianapolis and Marion County which was put into effect in the 1970s.
		Unigov, a concept associated with the name of then Mayor Richard Lugar, required legislation in the General Assembly to authorize forming a unified government in the City of Indianapolis and the nine townships of Marion County.
	www.indianahistory.org /library/manuscripts/collection_guides/M0574.html (1934 words)

	Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com
		On Thursday, he went to Louisville to discuss consolidation with Kentucky officials, who are still evaluating Louisville's "Unity" plan that combined city and county government in 2000.
		Northwest Indiana is nowhere near adopting Unigov, but a number of forces could finally force action on consolidation, Kuzman said.
		Dick Lugar, R-Ind., originally pushed Unigov through in 1969 when he was Indianapolis mayor.
	www.thetimesonline.com /articles/2004/08/23/news/top_news/c62797728d09619e86256ef80009a77b.prt (1036 words)

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