Abolishing Industrial Development Agencies was part of the initial Free Buffalo package of proposals in 2004-5.1
Subsequently, we issued News Alert No. 6—“Public Authorities Have Failed the Public.” That report stated:
It is time to recognize that the authority system of public administration in New York has failed. . . . The authority system failed because authorities are not subject to the discipline of the marketplace or the ballot box. When things go wrong, those in charge are neither voted out of office nor do they lose their investment.. . . authorities, like all government agencies, are bureaucracies, that is, organizations governed by rules and not by the desire to earn profits by satisfying customers. Authorities share with other government agencies all the defects of bureaucratic management but have one major additional defect: you can’t vote the managers out of office.
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