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Arden Hills Summary of Selected Factors Related to City Finance Prepared by Dr. Linda Tomaselli, GISRDC September 10, 2013 This report provides a further refinement of an analysis of Emergency Services calls for 2011 and 2012, as well as analysis of some additional factors that affect city finance, including land use, population, and the Fiscal Disparities law. I. Emergency The analysis of emergency calls has been separated by year. The purpose is to analyze changes that may have taken place from one year to the next. A refinement of the matching of calls has been done, so that some statistics may differ from those presented in the earlier report of June 10, 2013. The Sheriff, Fire and Dispatch billings have also been analyzed and cost factors per call have been calculated. Table 1 shows the calculation of the costs per call. The amount of Dispatch has been allocated between Sheriff and Fire based on the proportions of the billing for each. This works out to be about 70% for the Sheriff and 30% for Fire. Table 1 Arden Hills Cost per Emergency Call, 2011 and 2012 Sheriff Aid Reimburse- Share of Number of Year Billing ment Dispatch Total Calls* $ per Call 2011 $930,692 -$41,722 $29,553 $918,523 3804 $241.46 2012 $974,739 -$37,118 $34,622 $972,243 4281 $227.11 Fire Share of Number of Year Billing NA Dispatch Total Calls* $ per Call 2011 $379,402 $12,613 $392,015 422 $928.95 2012 $392,869 $14,507 $407,376 387 $1,052.65 * includes all calls, even those not found to be in city. Table 2 shows the numbers of calls by year and general land use category. According to Table 2, the number of Sheriff calls increased by about 10.5%, while the number of Fire calls went down by 8%. Table 3 summarizes this information from a cost standpoint, using the cost multipliers from Table 1. Table 4 provides a more comprehensive analysis by detailed land use category. Note that the sheriff calls to the federal interstate highways decreased by 10%, while the calls to city streets increased substantially. This is probably due to the road closings due to construction, and the diversion of traffic onto local streets. Using the per call costs from Table 1, Table 5 shows the costs by land use category.