It appears the only person you got was yourself.

More government involvement, more government employees, more of the stuff we don’t need or want. It gets sickening after awhile.

Can someone explain the job or jobs of a county health department? Lancaster city already has a health department would this be similar to what they do? What tasks would they do to unite all the townships and boroughs and the city government?
If someone could sent a link I really would like more information about what they would do. The speakers today keep saying it would improve coordination, lower health outcomes and it would unite agencies. Could someone please explain what a county agency would do to improve and unite to give us a better health system. I am truly looking for information to make a informed decision.

All hospitals routinely drill for various disasters. Some departments that are for instance, therapy areas transform to triage or treatment areas. We already have an Emergency Management Director. We have three large hospitals and countless surgicenters and doctors offices. Why would we want a health department that duplicates services of the above as well as the County Extension Office and other agencies? Isn't this why we have the Emergency Management complex for training for various scenarios?

Like all bureaucracies, this Health Department will grow in order to prove its own importance by adding well-meaning programs and demanding an ever increasing budget. People will do less for themselves and be more dependent upon social services. This will attract more people to the area who seek these "free" services. You and I lose more of our freedom as more of our personal resources are confiscated to pay for this new bureaucracy.

No thanks.

We still do not know the final cost per taxpayer this Convention Center will cost us.

We have federal, state and now local duplication of services with countless employees who do what for me? I do not desire a nanny state nor do I want to pay for one either.

The needs of the people always sound pressing and necessary. Unfortunately, these types of bureaucracies become self-serving and will follow the usual pattern of growing larger and more unaccountable.

Remember how effective and coordinated all the established government agencies responsible for public safety operated in the chaos that occurred after Hurricane Katrina? A whole myriad of "help" agencies couldn't prevent or mitigate the suffering that happened during and immediately after the storm. Remember the ineffective New Orleans Mayor and the baffled Louisana Governor blaming everybody else but themselves (including Bush)? As taxpaying Americans, we're still paying for that political pork feast, and I don't believe too much has improved this silly system of waste since.

A new county bureaucracy is not the solution. The answer is to improve, make accountable, and demand that the existing government agencies and group of "not for profits" prepare for all possible emergencies. That's the duty for our existing elected state and county leaders to accomplish by directing the thousands of workers already employed to do a little more than is currently expected.

Adding another new bureaucracy into the mix to improve public safety? We can't even manage the ones we already have. What a joke.