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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 af use, population, and the Fiscal Disparities law. I. Emergency Calls 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 refineme been done, so that some statistics may differ from those present 10, 2013. The Sheriff, Fire and Dispatch billings have also been analyzed been calculated. Table 1 shows the calculation of the costs per has been allocated between Sheriff and Fire based on the proport 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 Total $ per Call Dispatch Calls* 2011 $930,692 -$41,722$29,553$918,5233804$241.46 2012 $974,739 -$37,118$34,622$972,2434281$227.11 Fire Share of Number of Year Billing NA Dispatch Total Calls* $ per Call 2011 $379,402 $12,613$392,015422$928.95 2012 $392,869 $14,507$407,376387$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 2, the number of Sheriff calls increased by about 10.5%, while t down by 8%. Table 3 summarizes this information from a cost sta multipliers from Table 1. Table 4 provides a more comprehensive use category. Note that the sheriff calls to the federal inters while the calls to city streets increased substantially. This i 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. 1