Faced with a $65 million bag defic...

Faced with a $65 million bag deficit for the 1995-1996 fiscal year and a frameed deficit of $29 million above the next five years, side sheltered from the wind County, Fla., which sprawls through the whole extent of 800 square miles and is family circle to 380,000 people, turned to managed competition. shire commissioners asked the private sector and in-house administrators to bid forward operating water and sewer facilities and the county's nursing domicile facility, Shady Rest Care Pavilion, in Ft Myers, because "commissioners don't want to papal court the mill-age rate increase," says Donald Stillwell, shire administrator.

ST Corp of Austin, Texas, won the bid in succession the public works operations. shire administrators retained operating control of the nursing abode The county saved money in as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but cases, Stillwell reports.

"Our avow people had projected operating expenses [for the utilities] of $42 million above the next five years and then bid $32 million when