Thursday, July 18, 2013

Expert in the News: City Merger Fizzles

A Plain Dealer story on a failed eastside city merger proposal cites a BW student-faculty survey and features commentary from BW business professor Phil Bessler.

“The will of the people, they don’t see a significant of enough benefit worth giving up the independence they have,” said Bessler, an Orange resident and Baldwin Wallace University business professor.

In 2010, as part of a BW study (pdf), Bessler found that Hunting Valley, Moreland Hills, Orange and Pepper Pike could save millions of dollars a year.