11.   In the future, the county will do so beginning in October.

12.   Los Angeles County sold taxable munis to fulfill its pension obligations, and several other California counties may do the same.

13.   Mayor Willie Brown has said he will appoint a task force to study implementation of the laws, something other counties already have done.

14.   Ms. Savesky said they went with Infopet after the neighboring county did so first.

15.   New York City must also pay for separate full-time fire and sanitation departments and a public hospital system, he said, which the counties do not.

16.   Other Southern California counties did better.

17.   The county has done a good job of creating zoning regulations that favor development around the towns in the county like Paola and Louisburg, Osborn said.

18.   The county is perceived as a closed system and it is a cultural phenomenon born out of the way the county has done business for decades.

19.   The irrigation district does not set its tax rates, the county does.

20.   The light is only a token, and someone will have to die there before the county does more.