Consolidate and improve, to improve efficiency, the emergency response system

Elective offices are not accountable to everyone and need Open Door Hiring Policy

Cut the number of county commissioners (smaller legislative body)

Constitutional offices should remain elected

Better communication between commissioners and the public

School superintendent elected

Show the elected who's boss - the voters

Restrict county commissioners from holding salaried positions in county government

Need a system in the county of civil service

Look at one government for efficiency and consistency

All elected officials should not hold a salaried position and their relatives

Would like to see financial accountability in detail

Too much freedom of officials to make big financial decisions. More taxpayer input before the budget is final

Too many layers of employees in all county departments. Too many levels of bureaucracy. Have an impartial efficiency review.

Study other government structures

Serious investigation of education system

School administration needs to be accountable to the public it serves

Wants Baker Center to study all duties and responsibilities and pay for all local government employees. Show reporting levels (accountability) and make public

Eliminate nepotism (don't hire relatives)

Commissioners go along with recommendations of MPC

More efficient government. Eliminate duplication.

Accountability - sheriff, register of deeds, trustee, county clerk property assessor, law director appointed by mayor, not elected

Term limits enforced. Term limited persons should not be appointed to other positions.

Truly unified government. One official for: parks and recreation, law enforcement, garbage pick-up, zoning, fire, chief executive. One legislative body

Emergency management - is our system currently working?

Alcoholic beverages: we want legal sales outside city limits

Open parking garage - City County Building

Everyone has opportunity to be represented, i.e. minorities, etc.

Sunshine law enforced

Independent school district with own taxing power

Politicians need to understand quality of life vs. quantity as applied to zoning and urban sprawl. Developers should pay the cost of infrastructure, not tax payers.

More regional cooperation on issues such as environmental and transportation

County employees or relatives should not be part of the legislative branch

Citizens need to be more informed and involved and feel their voices are heard

One government to avoid duplication of offices

School board to have more authority for funding so they don't have to beg county commission for money

Want to see complete new election in 2008 with term limits for all elected officials

Change must come from the people up

No nepotism

No term limits

Incremental change between city and county

Revisit of conflict of interest and ethics policies that government has

Review the functions of offices and eliminate duplication

Clean roads / litter

Improve codes enforcement

Address inequities of offerings, faculties, etc. in public schools

Review of appointed vs. elected offices and determine which is best

Look at Farragut's form of government for efficiency model

All elections be non-partisan

Business people who work for the county should not get elected

Election process needs to be streamlined

Clearer wording of referendum item

Too many commissioners

Knox County government needs to be much more accountable to the people, to the individual voter

Reduce impact of the "boss party," the political parties, non partisan

Strengthen the ethics rules, integrity - not hiring relatives, friends

Turn all elected positions into more of a "servant" type job - not a professional job. Do it for service to community, not for personal benefit or gain. People who work for community, not their back pocket. Make all elected positions unpaid jobs (except sheriff)

Not everyone does a great job - but we do have some good leaders - we have to come together more. Knox County and City: take look at metro or consolidated government

Keep all government local - find way to make it work on much closer basis - so politicians are more responsive at local level. No metro government

Don't want those individuals having authority to "slip seat" replacements - cannot appoint, must be elected

Cut bureaucratic bloat at all levels of government - cut 50% of county government

My idea of solving it is metro government

Cut the limits that elected officials are allowed to serve. Shorter terms. Two years is enough. More frequent elections so people can go to the polls

Establish term limits on any elected position

Add "None of the Above" as choice for all elections. Hold follow up elections with "None of the These Allowed to Run."

Want to see some duplicate offices at city and county level merged into one

Make all elected positions non-partisan

Enact ethics legislation that builds ethics accountability into county government

Commission district lines redrawn

Commission races staggered (it is worth it)

Unified government. Legislative body expanded. Two parts: 1. At large seats - four year terms; 2. District seats - two year terms. Not metro.

Civil service protection for employees of Knox County government as a whole

Liquor-by-the-drink referendum without annexation outside city limits

Parents vote for school board member that represents their child's school

Commissioners and school board members cannot be employed by Knox County

Commissioners and school board members and their immediate family cannot be employed by Knox County

Develop process for change. Standard operating procedure for changes that reflect citizen input

More people to vote

Knox County government serves the public above all else

Restrictions on employment of immediate family of elected officials

Penalty for violation of Sunshine Law

School board members should be term limited

Liaisons from schools to school board

Do away with wheel tax

Give school board taxation power for school budget (split property tax bill to two numbers: school and non-school)

County commission and school board should serve without pay

Accountability / Overstaffing and Nepotism control / Better restrictions

Board of Education change time of meetings to make more accessible to families and citizens (later time)

More elected officials including supreme court members

Lack of environmental protection in county. One body regulating/governing standards for environmental protection. One set of standards for both city/county. Need czar.

More consistency between city/county

More elected officials - for openness and accountability

Metro government. Not two law enforcement agencies. Would eliminate parochialism. One council, one mayor, one governing body

Streamlined voting process