Essex County EMS Strategic Plan Update: Looking to the Future after Five Years of Progress

CGR was engaged to conduct a follow up study to evaluate the changes since a 2017 strategic plan was enacted. Since then, there has been significant progress around dispatching, establishing a county EMS service, improving education and setting response targets. Service. Local EMS services have also increased paid staffing. Despite...

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Open Primary/Final Five Voting in NYS - Assessing Impacts on State and Local Elections

CGR studied the potential impact of a “Final Five” voting system in New York State, at the request of the League of Women Voters of the Rochester Metro Area. Final Five vote combines open primaries with ranked-choice voting of up to five candidates per race in the general election. Advocates of...

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Potential Impacts of Village Incorporation - Assessing Fiscal and Operational Impacts in Edgemont, NY

CGR was engaged by New York State to examine the potential fiscal and operational impacts of a new village incorporation in the hamlet of Edgemont, a community of almost 8,000 people in Greenburgh, a town of 95,000 that contains six villages and an unincorporated area. We modeled three scenarios for...

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