The consolidation cost-savings estimates keep changing!  First, it's over a million, then it's $700,000. Now the CGC says $500,000.  How can we trust such wild variations?
                            - Former Saugatuck mayor's comments at the State Boundary Commission hearing.

Fact:   These cost-savings estimates were thoughtfully arrived at based on different assumptions.  The highest number was developed when the Township was still being recommended for consolidation.  The $700,000 number included projected savings in service departments like public works.  To avoid debating any service cuts, two Plante Moran studies arrived at the $500,000 figure as an absolute minimum estimate based solely on eliminating redundant municipal overhead. As to "trust," a better question might be: How can we continue to rely on a system of government that's wasting a half-million of our tax dollars... every year?!?