That's exactly the thinking of setting up a combined authority, a new super council sharing know-how, officers and priorities for government investment.
This resulted in an appointed council sharing power with the monarch.
Hibs entered talks with Edinburgh District Council about sharing a new stadium with Hearts, but the proposed site of Ingliston was in the wrong part of the city for Hibs.
He cited Hammersmith & Fulham and Westminster, which had saved the taxpayer £100m by merging services, such as education, and other councils that were sharing a chief executive.
A separate multi-agency report found there were shortcomings in the way police, the local health board and council shared information in the runup to Jack's death.
The council shares its headquarters with the newly minted Hungarian Civic Party, which was approved in March to take part in elections, as an alternative to the mainstream Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania.
CPRIT's scientific review council shared these concerns.
Councillor Geoffrey Bowden, council cabinet member for culture, recreation and tourism, said: "The council shares everyone's passion for the lido.
Lists of witnesses to charters show that Æthelred's witan (council) shared bishops and at least two ealdormen with Ceolwulf, but Ceolwulf's thegns all disappeared.
The Eshkol council, which shares a 40-kilometer border with Gaza and a 12-kilometer border with Egypt, has over 32 communities including 14 kibbutzim, 15 moshavim, and 3 community villages.
There are other examples of pooled resources - South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils share a chief executive for example - but not on this scale.
