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Page 1 of 2 DATE: September 29, 2014 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers Patrick Klaers, City Administrator FROM: Jill Hutmacher, Community Development Director SUBJECT: Joint Powers Agreement between the City of Arden Hills and Ramsey County GIS Users Group Requested Action Motion to approve Resolution 2014-048 accepting a joint powers agreement between the City of Arden Hills and the Ramsey County GIS users group. Background/Discussion Since at least 1998, the City of Arden Hills has been a member of the Ramsey County Geographic Information Systems Users Group (RCGISUG). The RCGISUG was formed in 1995 to provide member cities and organizations throughout Ramsey County with a centralized and efficient source of electronic geographic data. Since the RCGISUG processes geographic information for the entire county, the users group is able to provide the information in a standardized format and is more affordable than would otherwise be possible. City staff uses the geographic data provided by the RCGISUG on an almost daily basis in such activities as planning cases, code enforcement, comprehensive planning, and engineering. The City is provided with updated information on CDs on a regular basis, which allows us to manipulate the data and create our own maps as needed. Some of the information provided by the RCGISUG is available online at http://www.ramseygis.org/index.html. The RCGISUG has joint powers agreements (JPA) with all of its member organizations. The JPA is re-authorized every three years, and was last approved by Arden Hills in November 2011. The current JPA expires at the end of this year. The membership fees are based on the population served by each member organization. New fees were calculated in 2011 based on the 2010 census. The City’s fees for each year 2012-2014 were $961.89. This amount is also the projected fee for the reauthorized agreement term of 2015-2017. The fees are included in the CONSENT ITEM MEMORANDUM