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WORK SESSION A E NINA ITEM NO 1 July 7, 1 gg8 TO: City Council 1'R 0 M: Steve Sarkozy SUBJECT: METROPOLITAN COUNCIL—COST OF GROWTH STUDY Approximately one year ago, the Metropolitan Council approved the "Regional Growth Strategies"which is intended to be the blueprint for metropolitan development into the next century. This regional strategy will help define: 1) the way our metropolitan area accommodates some 600,000 new residents in the next 20 years; ) the patterns of redevelopment including transportation, housing, etc.; and ) the direction of tax policy in response to development patterns and service delivery costs. The Regional Growth strategies has many assumptions about the cost of accommodating new development and redevelopment. In order to test those assumptions, Met. Council is conducting the `cost of Growth Study'! and has offered the City of Roseville an opportunity to participate. This typo of study is unique in the country, and one of the most forward thinking approaches to understanding long-term costs of service delivery on a city by.city a metropolitan area wide basis. The benefits to Roseville would include a financial impact analysis of our current service delivery system over a long period of time} allowing the City to evaluate long-term costs and developing a system of financial benchmarks. In addition, long-term service costs in Roseville arnd our community's revenue projections will be evaluated based on the antic= ated regional growth model to assess our ability to sustain our current strong p g financial position. - The cost to the city of Roseville is an amount not to exceed $10,000 plus some staff time to'-support the effort. We will-be seeking financial support from the 35W Corridor Coalition with the hope that they would pick up $5,000 of our cost leaving the City with only a $5,000 commitment) on the basis that the lessons learned in Roseville are transferable to other cities in the 35W corridor. The cost for this should be committed from the 1998 Contingent Account. Bill Byers: staff Economist at the filet. Council, will be present at our work session to answer questions the Council may have. Should the Council agree to proceed, this item would be on the July 27 regular City Council meeting agenda for final approval. Respectfully ectfully submitted. Attachments: Participating Cities (Preliminary) Proposed Cost of Growth Study p g Description of Proposed Services and Prod u ct —Tisch le r Associates,