PREVIOUS CONSOLIDATION EFFORTS IN THE GLOBAL METROPOLITAN REGION OF EL PASO,TEXAS.

This report compiles a great deal of qualitative data concerning the policy-making and decision climate in El Paso which have undergirded the consolidation debate up to the present time. Contained within the report are the following areas; Monitoring, which will demonstrate policy outcome; Evaluation, which will establish policy performance; Problem Structuring, which will outline policy problems; Forecasting, which will predict policy futures; and Recommendation, which will substantiate policy actions. It is the hope of this report that current and future city-county policy-making will implement the following decision-making instruments to transcend existing limitations and create a new vision for a consolidated metro government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]