Salem, Beverly and Peabody will explore merging health departments

The cities of Salem, Beverly and Peabody are meeting to explore the possibility of regionalizing their health departments.

Here is the link to the Salem News story.
Here is an additional link to the Peabody Weekly News story.

This seems like a pretty smart thing to consider in these difficult financial times. Now I am not saying that it would be a good idea to do this type of thing in all or even most instances... but when it DOES make sense AND it can save some money... it is the right thing to do.

I have read many comments on the blogs saying how government needs to CUT CUT CUT... and I hope that this is the type of smart cuts that people are talking about. I wonder if this is actually the type of thing that is happening everyday in many departments throughout the City... or if this is simply an isolated press conference moment to SEEM LIKE the politicians are actually trying to do something.

I really believe it is more likely the new normal way of conducting City business.