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Page 1 of 2 <br /> <br />DATE: February 12 , 2018 <br /> <br />TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers <br />David Perrault, City Administrator <br /> <br />FROM: Sue Polka, Public Works Director/City Engineer <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Joint Powers Agreement between the City of Arden Hills and Ramsey County <br />GIS Users Group <br /> <br />Budgeted Amount: Actual Amount: Funding Source: <br />$961.89 $961.89 Community Development Budget <br /> <br /> <br />Council Should Consider <br /> <br />Motion to approve Resolution 2018-010 accepting a joint powers agreement between the City of <br />Arden Hills and the Ramsey County GIS users group. <br /> <br />Background/Discussion <br /> <br />Since at least 1998, the City of Arden Hills has been a member of the Ramsey County <br />Geographic Information Systems Users Group (RCGISUG). The RCGISUG was formed in 1995 <br />to provide member cities and organizations throughout Ramsey County with a centralized and <br />efficient source of electronic geographic data. Since the RCGISUG processes geographic <br />information for the entire county, the users group is able to provide the information in a <br />standardized format and is more affordable than would otherwise be possible. <br /> <br />City staff uses the geographic data provided by the RCGISUG on an almost daily basis in such <br />activities as planning cases, code enforcement, comprehensive planning, and engineering. The <br />City is provided with updated information on CDs on a regular basis, which allows us to <br />manipulate the data and create our own maps as needed. Some of the information provided by <br />the RCGISUG is available online at http://www.ramseygis.org/index.html. <br /> <br />The RCGISUG has joint powers agreements (JPA) with all of its member organizations. The <br />JPA is re-authorized every three years, and was last approved by Arden Hills in September 2014. <br />The curre nt JPA expire d at the end of 2017. The membership fees are based on the population <br />served by each member organization. New fees were calculated in 2011 based on the 2010 <br />CONSENT ITEM – 6E <br /> <br /> MEMORANDUM <br />