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The Department of State recently issued its first three-year report on the Shared Municipal Services Incentive Program.  This program was created by the State Legislature in 2005 to “encourage municipalities to reduce costs through municipal cooperation and consolidation.”  Counties, cities, towns, villages and school districts can apply for grant money to share services.  Those services can range from something as simple as sharing a code enforcement officer to dissolving town police forces, as was seen in Clay, N.Y., earlier this year.