Collingswood Joins 7-Town Shared Services Group

Mayor James Maley said the TD Bank facade collapse earlier this summer really drove home the need for broader interlocal cooperation.

Collingswood Mayor James Maley has long believed in sharing government services as a way of cutting spending and encouraging efficiency. But it was the collapse of the old TD Bank facade a day after May Fair 2012 that really drove home the need for interlocal cooperation. Speaking at a press conference on shared services convened by seven local municipalities Tuesday, he said the cleanup might have been done faster had a shared services agreement already been in place. "We had an old bank building and about 10, 200-pound marble slabs fell off the front," Maley said. "There were more that were hanging on the building. "We couldn't get the owner to respond as quickly as I needed him to respond," he said. "I needed my construction code …

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