Faced with a $65 million lot deficit for the 1995-1996 fiscal year and a intended deficit of $29 million above the next five years.

Faced with a $65 million lot deficit for the 1995-1996 fiscal year and a intended deficit of $29 million above the next five years, to leeward County, Fla., which sprawls throughout 800 square miles and is to one's home to 380,000 people, turned to managed competition. shire commissioners asked the private sector and in-house administrators to bid forward operating water and sewer facilities and the county's nursing hearth facility, Shady Rest Care Pavilion, in Ft Myers, because "commissioners don't want to view the mill-age rate increase," says Donald Stillwell, shire administrator.

ST Corp of Austin, Texas, won the bid upon the public works operations. shire administrators retained operating control of the nursing domicile The county saved money in the two cases, Stillwell reports.

"Our admit people had projected operating costlinesss [for the utilities] of $42 million through the whole extent of the next five years and then bid $32 million when