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� <br />EN HILLS <br />MEMORANDUM <br />DATE: June 27, 2011 <br />TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers <br />Patrick Klaers, City Administrator <br />FROM: Kyle Howard, Finance Analyst <br />Sue Iverson, Director of Finance and Administrative Services <br />SUBJECT: Report on 2011 Performance Measures as Recommended by the Council <br />on Local Results and Innovation . <br />Background <br />The Council on Local Results and Innovation was created by the 2010 Legislature to set <br />benchmarks for city and county operations. Through several meetings, the group adopted <br />standards which are relatively easy to measure using survey tools. The legislation comes <br />with two incentives to participate. There is a standing appropriation available for <br />participants equal to 14 cents per capita (this equates to $1,337 a year for the City of <br />Arden Hills). The other incentive is that participating entities are exempt from levy <br />limits when they are in effect. (We did receive $1,337 in January of this year for the <br />program.) <br />The performance measures are mostly community survey questions and the OSA is not <br />going to dictate how you get the results. This means that we could do something like <br />using Survey Monkey on our website and advertising it in our newsletter. It does not <br />need to be a statistically valid survey like Decision Resources to qualify. We already use <br />Survey Monkey which costs $199 a year vs. paying for a Community Survey from <br />Decision Resources which runs $10,000 plus. <br />Results of the Survev for 2011 <br />The City did put together a survey in the form prescribed by the Office of the State <br />Auditor (OSA) and Council on local Results and Innovation and placed it on the City's <br />website. It was published in our City newsletter, announced at our May 29, 2012 <br />meeting, and on our local access channel. <br />Attached are the survey and the results of the survey the City received. The OSA <br />requires that results of the survey need to be publicized and shared with the community. <br />City Council Meeting <br />P:�Admin\Council�Agendas & Packet Information�2012\06-25-12 Reg Mtg�Packet�2011 Performance Measures Report.doc <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />