This is commonly practiced in various city and county services: fire and police services, ambulance, public transit (virtually all extant bus and rail services began as privately-owned companies), school bussing, schools, childcare, parks and recreation, utilities (water, rubbish, electricity, gas, Internet, sewerage, ...), etc.
There's a long history of this, in California and elsewhere.
The Wikipedia article unfortunately doesn't dive much into the details of mechanism though it does point out numerous instances and issues.
This is commonly practiced in various city and county services: fire and police services, ambulance, public transit (virtually all extant bus and rail services began as privately-owned companies), school bussing, schools, childcare, parks and recreation, utilities (water, rubbish, electricity, gas, Internet, sewerage, ...), etc.
There's a long history of this, in California and elsewhere.
The Wikipedia article unfortunately doesn't dive much into the details of mechanism though it does point out numerous instances and issues.
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