NORWICH – There wasn’t any specific mention of Chenango County’s efforts at consolidating government processes or streamlining services in a state report released this week, but it wasn’t because nobody tried.

A two-page description of collaborative joint fuel purchasing strategies and plans to create a county-wide highway services department made its way to the Commission on Local Government Efficiency and Competitiveness. Deputy Director Lori Hethoff said she received the report from the Chenango County Board of Supervisors in June 2007, but no one in county government remembers sending it.

The submission describes the efforts of a community cooperation group that met a three or four times at the Eaton Center begining in late 1996. No action resulted from the multiple converstations between government and business leaders in the county.

The Board of Supervisors adamantly opposed former Governor Eliot Spitzer’s initial request last March for collaborative strategies that could streamline government, and perhaps cut taxpayer costs. And though it did agree to apply for a grant to study the assessment function at the municipal level, the county board did so only reluctantly earlier this month.