Racco is a leading supporter of allowing municipalities to use red light camera technology for safety purposes.

The system allows smaller municipalities to collaborate with nearby larger ones in order to reduce printing cost.

A third would allow counties and municipalities to exceed annual budget caps in order to pay for computer upgrades.

But others criticized the policy of allowing municipalities to avoid sanctions merely by stating their plans rather than by delivering results.

Still, as critics point out, buying up farmland, while expensive, at least allows municipalities to block growth.

However, the system allows smaller municipalities to collaborate with nearby larger ones in order to reduce printing costs.

In June 2000, the State Legislature allowed municipalities to hire professional wildlife management organizations.

Nationwide, 27 states have "flow control" laws allowing municipalities to require that all garbage be taken to a government-owned center for processing.

They also say the bill avoids the constitutional problems from prior legislation by setting up criteria to allow other municipalities to create special school districts.

One of the more substantive changes was enacted in 1992, when the legislature allowed municipalities, but not teachers, to reject arbitration awards.