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( 9 ) agencies involved. My suggestion was approved unanimously by the commission and is still under study. The commission may conclude that this study should be done by the Regional Health Service Agency. And, it may be that the plan is impossible in the absence of uniform accounting and performance standards. But, as I see it, somebody must assume the responsibility for developing objective criteria for evaluation, be it the individual agencies, the state, HSA, or the West piedmont Planning Commission; otherwise, in the absence of a measuring yardstick, I don't think we will ever get the information that we elected officials need to properly - evaluate the performance of our service agencies. Right now, it strikes me that service agency budgets are evaluated primarily on the percentage increase from one year to another, and, in my opinion, this just isn't enough for local officials to make decisions on. . fJt setlH! non Now I'd like to switch to another ~ri~" - - the agencies allocation of costs to the local governments. I ask each of you - - how would you react if City Council or the Board of Supervisors raised your taxes and lowered the taxes of a neighbor because you had more fires, or crime, or garbage, or sent more children to school than your neighbor? I can guess what your reaction would be. You would probably feel the same as I did when Anchor House asked the City of Martinsville to pay $30,800 this fiscal year - - almost $12,700 more than last year - - a 70% increase in one year. When I examined the reasons for the huge $12,700 requested increase, I found that $2900 of the increase resulted from additional