"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
                                                      - Heard from one of the Saugatuck government officials in his remarks at   
                                                        the June 20, 2012 Boundary Commission hearing.

Fact:   While there are certainly many wonderful "unbroken" aspects to life here in Saugatuck and Douglas, the existence of two local governments--with all the duplication and wasteful expense, conservatively estimated to be in excess of $500,000 every year--is definitely not among them.  Two redundant complements of municipal-overhead employees serving just 2,157 citizens is  a "broken" government. It also helps explain why we have no coordinated economic development plan, no plan for enhancing healthcare services in our community, no single vision for our future. Fixing our government organization is key to our community's success in the years to come.