Idaho Institutions

Chapter contents

• Cooperatives 3 entries Member-owned institutions that move crops and deliver power: governance by the people served, and the particular obligations that creates.
  1. 01When the Members Are the Owners
  2. 02The Manager Who Has Been There Thirty Years
  3. 03The Member Who Deals Elsewhere
• Special Districts 3 entries Fire, cemetery, library, hospital, and highway districts: the small governing bodies that deliver most of what residents experience and that almost nobody watches.
  1. 01The Districts Nobody Watches
  2. 02Working With the District Next Door
  3. 03The Volunteer Who Cannot Be Replaced
• The Transfer Ahead 3 entries A generation of Idaho institutional leadership reaching the end of its tenure at once, and what determines whether its judgment carries forward.
  1. 01The Transfer Now Under Way
  2. 02Starting Something That Outlasts You
  3. 03The Last Ten Years
• Water 3 entries Irrigation and water districts: the oldest continuously governed institutions in the state, and the leadership demands of allocating a resource under scarcity.
  1. 01Governing a Finite Resource
  2. 02The Arrangement That Was Never Written
  3. 03The Year There Is Not Enough