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