By Jeannette Hinkle
Cape Cod Times
By the time John “Jack” Yunits Jr. assumed the role of Barnstable County administrator in February 2016, most county governments in the state had been disbanded.
Critics held that the regional form of government was redundant, a waste of taxpayer money, and by 2010, Yunits said, county government in Massachusetts had all but disappeared.
“But as I got onto the Cape, I began to realize that it had an immense value,” said Yunits, a former Brockton mayor. “Some of the smaller towns didn t have the financial capacity to grab the resources necessary to do specific bidding, to do professional studies, to work in a regional way by combining assets and leveraging that combination of assets into something more financially impactful.”
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