(1) public health and insurance;
(2) emergency services;
(3) sewer, water, and waste management systems;
(4) energy procurement and efficiency;
(5) parks and recreation;
(6) education and workforce training;
(7) law and courts;
(8) shared equipment, personnel, and services;
(9) joint purchasing;
(10) governmental reorganization;
(11) transportation and highway departments; and
(12) records management and administrative functions.
b. for each of the counties the following information:
(1) a detailed summary of each of the savings plans, including
revisions and updates submitted each year or the statement explaining
why the county did not approve a plan in any year;
(2) the anticipated savings for each plan;
(3) the number of cities, towns and villages in the county;
(4) the number of cities, towns and villages that participated in a
panel, as reported in a plan;
(5) the number of school districts, boards of cooperative educational
services, fire districts, fire protection districts, or other special
districts in the county; and
(6) the number of school districts, boards of cooperative educational
services, fire districts, fire protection districts, or other special
districts that participated in a panel, as reported in a plan.
10. The secretary of state may solicit, and the panels may provide at
her or his request, advice and recommendations concerning matters
related to the operations of local governments and shared services
initiatives, including, but not limited to, making recommendations
regarding grant proposals incorporating elements of shared services,
government dissolutions, government and service consolidations, or
property taxes and such other grants where the secretary deems the input
of the panels to be in the best interest of the public. The panel shall
advance such advice or recommendations by a vote of the majority of the
members present at such meeting.
11. The authority granted by this article to a county CEO to convene a
panel for the purpose of revising or updating a previously approved
plan, or developing a new plan, or to provide the secretary of state
information pursuant to subdivision ten of this section, shall cease on
December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-four.