County Executive Mike Sanders spoke in front of the Lee&#x92;s Summit Chamber of Commerce Friday at the monthly membership luncheon at Adams Pointe Conference Center in Blue Springs. </p><p>Sanders talked about cost cutting measures within the county, his plan for a regional jail, updates to the county courthouse and his plan for a regional rail mass transit system. </p><p>Sanders said during the four years he&#x92;s been in office, the county has cut its budget 30 percent. But he said he&#x92;s tried to do that without eliminating the quality of the services the county provides. </p><p>&#x93;We want to run our government like you do. Like a business,&#x94; Sanders said. </p><p>Part of that includes reinvesting those cuts to other needs within the county. </p><p>&#x93;It&#x92;s not real sexy, but one of the biggest needs we have is investment in the criminal justice facilities.&#x94;</p><p>Sanders said this year &#x96; for the first time in five years &#x96; sales tax revenues for the county went up 5 percent. And he plans on reinvesting those funds in courthouse improvements. </p><p>&#x93;Let&#x92;s use the money the public already generously gives us,&#x94; he said. </p><p>He said he also would like to look at a regional jail for eastern Jackson County and &#x93;pool the region&#x92;s resources&#x94; to fund it. </p><p>&#x93;Every city has its own jail,&#x94; Sanders said. &#x93;If we regionalize it, we can do more with less.&#x94;</p><p>As for mass transit, Sanders said he is hoping to get federal grant money for mass transit to develop his rail transit project. He said his plan services the suburban areas as well as the major destination places in the metro area. Additionally, Sanders said 42 percent of metro residents live within a half a mile of one of the proposed transit lines in his plan.