06-10-2013 Summary and Analysis of Emergency Serviced for 2011 and 2012

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• II. Sheriff Calls Again, as shown on Table 1, in 2011 and 2012 there were and 8085 sheriff calls reported for Arden Hills. Of these, 7,927 were confirmed to have been in the city. The other 158 • calls (2%)appeared to not be in the city. These included street names not in the city our house numbers that were not in the address ranges for the city. For the confirmed calls in the city,the average time per call was 29.3 minutes. Map 2 shows the locations of sheriff calls. Each dot shows 10 minutes of call time (calls of less than 10 minutes are not shown). A. Calls by Land Use The greatest amount of time was spent on residential land uses, at 38.7%, followed by tax exempt at 23.4%, streets and highways at 17.8%and commercial at 16.4%. Industrial only accounts for 2.2%, with the remaining uses at 1.5%or less. In the residential category,the mobile home park made up 12.6%of the call time, compared to 20.8%for single family. We don't yet have the total count for housing units,but the amount of time per mobile home unit will probably be much greater than the per unit amount for any other residential use. • Among the exempt uses, churches and charitable consumed 6.3% of the time. Tax- exempt private schools consumed 5.8%, and exempt public schools were responsible for 5.3%of the time. As expected,the more highly traveled streets and highways required the greatest amount of time,with county state aid highways (CSAH) accounting for 7.7%of the time, and federal and state at 4.7%and 2.9%, respectively. Shopping had the greatest amount of call time among the commercial uses (5.4%), followed by office at 2.7%. B. Top 50 Parcels with Sheriff Calls The top 50 parcels consuming Sheriff time are shown in Table 3. The mobile home park again tops the list. Among the others in the top 50 are 10 additional residential parcels, 14 tax-exempt, 21 commercial, 3 industrial, and 1 vacant parcel. It is especially noteworthy that Bethel University,Northwestern College, Mounds View Senior High and Valentine Hills Elementary Schools are all among the top 50, and are tax-exempt uses. C. Sheriff Calls by Type The sheriff call list categorizes calls by type. There are 177 different types. These have been generalized down into 91 for our purposes. The number of calls and the amount of call time for these categories is provided on Table 4. While it would not be practical to 7