Editorial: To start cleaning up Lake Worth, outsource some of...

A must read - outsourcing o.k. according to the Palm Beach Post - no disagreement here. Click title for link. From the opinion page:

There are few issues in Lake Worth more pressing than the sad dilapidation of entire neighborhoods, which city officials for years have allowed to deteriorate into chaotic interminglings of orderly homes and abandoned, decaying buildings. Much of the blame lies with the city’s long-dysfunctional code enforcement department, but now the city manager is declaring “a new day in Lake Worth.”
The source of Michael Bornstein’s optimism is a plan to outsource all or part of the city’s code enforcement duties to a private firm. Outsourcing public functions is not typically a cause for exuberance, but Lake Worth is hardly a typical case.